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Ethaniel's Journey
As the title says this is a journey in which I hope to become healthier and fitter.
My main goal is to lose the weight that I gained by being a lazy student. I would spend a lot of time just sitting down. My biggest realisation about how unfit I was becoming was when it took a whole week for me to get my "hiking legs" on a holiday to Austria in 2008. Normally I would need a day or two and then I would be fine, but I really struggled and realised what the problem was. So I was ...
As the title says this is a journey in which I hope to become healthier and fitter.
My main goal is to lose the weight that I gained by being a lazy student. I would spend a lot of time just sitting down. My biggest realisation about how unfit I was becoming was when it took a whole week for me to get my "hiking legs" on a holiday to Austria in 2008. Normally I would need a day or two and then I would be fine, but I really struggled and realised what the problem was. So I was determined to do something, watching my mum struggle with her weight problems and her always telling me it was better to sort it now while I still could. So I started to eat more as previously I wasn't eating enough to fill me up and would end up buying junk to fill me up. Then I began to eat more and still buy the junk so the weight didn't go anywhere. Of course I weighed myself could see the pounds add up but looking at my body I couldn't see where they were going. My belly was the same size it always was.
I stayed that way until I found SparkPeople in the summer of 2009. I took some measurements and found a lot of fat had gone on my hips which I hadn't noticed at all. I also realised I had more weight to loose then I had first thought. Checking my BMI and seeing it at around 24.5 shocked me, I was nearly considered overweight and I didn't think I looked it at all. So it started well then lulled as most things do and then started again.
When I did loose some weight I could see where it had been, just above my belly and a little higher as well as on my back. No wonder I hadn't been able to see the fat I knew was somewhere. Of course it came back as I have trouble sticking to my new lifestyle but I'm gradually improving.
My other goals involve fitness in general. Since I was very young I have always wanted to run a marathon I don't know why I just did. I'm beginning to train in long distance running so that some day I will complete that goal. I also want to have some muscle definition not a lot just something that actually shows I have muscles so I'm lifting myself as I don't have any weights at university and I'm still heavier then any weight I have lifted so far.
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My Weight Loss Progress:
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Member Since: 6/28/2009
SparkPoints: 3333
SparkAmerica Minutes: 1565
My Goals:
My goals include:
Weigh 132lbs
155lbs: Achieved 15 Jan 2010
150lbs
145lbs
140lbs
135lbs
132lbs
Being able to run 10k
2k: Achieved 4 Aug 09
4k
6k
8k
10k
Improving my fitness levels
More detail: http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_j
ournal_individual.asp?blog_id=2279614
My Program:
Eating in my calorie range
Doing some cardio every day
I try to exceed these ones:
Walking 10,000 steps a day
Drink 8 glasses of water a day
Weigh in day is Friday.
Other Information:
Some of my favourite quotes:
"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place."
~ Unknown
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. "
~ Confucius
"Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can."
~ Unknown
"Have you hit a brick wall? Aim higher and jump over it."
~ George Burns
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