I just read my Sparkpage homepage note from when I was a senior in college complaining about a 40 lb gain since senior year of high school, and here I am a few months out of law school and I am even heavier!

It's not for lack of trying -- I got down to about 170 my first semester of law school (only 20 pounds from my goal) because I changed to a non-processed food, pescetarian (no meat, just fish) "diet" and trained for a 1/2 marathon. But after the 1/2 marathon, I started making ...

I just read my Sparkpage homepage note from when I was a senior in college complaining about a 40 lb gain since senior year of high school, and here I am a few months out of law school and I am even heavier!

It's not for lack of trying -- I got down to about 170 my first semester of law school (only 20 pounds from my goal) because I changed to a non-processed food, pescetarian (no meat, just fish) "diet" and trained for a 1/2 marathon. But after the 1/2 marathon, I started making excuses for myself. I stopped running as often, started eating more processed foods, went to happy hours and out to eat.... and we all know how that story ends!

In the past year alone I have been on Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers and have hired two different personal trainers! I keep going back to that first semester of law school and thinking, what was different? And I've come to accept what it was -- I made a decision that I was going to change my lifestyle and I stopped giving myself excuses (lack of time, PCOS, bad trainers, bad coaches, etc.). The excuses piled on one at a time in law school and I am sure my family, friend, and ex-bfs all got sick of hearing them!

Bottom line? I have not taken on the responsibility for getting myself to where I need to be. This time around I am going to return to my approach back in that first semester of law school -- make a lifestyle change to think about food differently and exercise consistently. I think returning to that way of thinking and checking in daily with SparkPeople, I can get to where I want to be by Spring!

I have a few milestone points along the way (see below) and then if all goes well, I can say "I have arrived" sometime in March 2012.

Wish my luck :) I'll be sure to keep you all posted along the way!

Milstone goals:
10K race November 24th --
Wear bikini on cruise December 19th --
Buy a sexy birthday dress January 20th --
Half marathon February 8th --
GOAL in March --

Weight loss tracker:
200 - 190 ----- Almost there!
190 - 180 -----
180 - 170 -----
170 - 165 -----
165 - 160 -----
160 - 155 -----
155 - 151 -----
Goal - 150 -----

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