I'm losing weight after having my children (gained 60 lbs in 2004 with first after already being about 20 lbs up!) I started at 225 lbs 3 years ago and was successful at losing about 25 lbs over a couple years. I started again in earnest with SparkPeople on March 1st, 2008 at 195 lbs. I'm looking for something to help with my accountability. Tracking my exercise and food will be a big help, but so will posting on community boards and writing in my blog.

I really think I'm ...

I'm losing weight after having my children (gained 60 lbs in 2004 with first after already being about 20 lbs up!) I started at 225 lbs 3 years ago and was successful at losing about 25 lbs over a couple years. I started again in earnest with SparkPeople on March 1st, 2008 at 195 lbs. I'm looking for something to help with my accountability. Tracking my exercise and food will be a big help, but so will posting on community boards and writing in my blog.

I really think I'm going to make it this time. So if you want to watch someone from the beginning, go ahead and watch me. I'm going to document everything in my blog. I'm gonna' get this thing done! But along the way you can watch my highs and lows and watch how well (or how humanly) I deal with them.

I'm taking a photo of myself every week and hope to make a movie of them when I reach my goal. I saw someone did that on UTube, and I think it would be cool to have one for myself. Wish me luck!


________Goal___Actual
3/1/08....................195
4/5/08...................185.6
5/3/08...................179.8 (I'm in the 170's!!!!!!!!)
6/7/08...................171.8
7/5/08...................171.4 (Been struggling lately)
8/2/08...................166.6 (progress!)
9/6/08...................168.2
10/4/08...................(on vacation and got sick - no weigh in)
11/8/08....................163
12/6/08...................161
1/1/09......................162.8
2/2/09.....................160.2 (bouncing. Need more exercise minutes)
3/7/09.....................158.2

Mar - Oct 2009 - bouncing between 156 and 164

10/22/09 Rededicated myself to tracking food and staying on plan. Determined to reach goal by the end of 2009.

10/26/09................161
10/31/09................158.4
11/9/09..................158.8 (we had our Thanksgiving this weekend)
11/16/09...............156.6
11/23/09...............154.8 (HEALTHY BMI!!!)
11/31/09...............155.6
12/7/09................. 155.6

Stayed around 155-156 through the rest of the holidays. Didn't make my goal weight, but firmly succeeded in my real goal which was to gain nothing from October to December!

1/4/10...................156.3
1/11/10..................153.4
1/18/10................. 152.4
3/15/10................. 151

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

"Do or do not. There is no try"
- Yoda

"Runners run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first."
-Unknown

"Don't fear moving slowly forward...fear standing still."
-Kathleen Harris

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- John Quincy Adams

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-Frank Tyger

"It's not what you do in life, it's what you finish."
-Katherine Hepburn to Martina Navratilova

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~ Earl Nightingale

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- Marilyn Vos Savant

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"You gain strength, confidence and courage by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You're better than you think you are and you can do more than you think you can!"
- Ken Chlouber

"A goal without a plan is just a dream."
-???

"If you went running when you first started thinking about it, you'd be back by now."

"The road to hell is paved with couches."

"People who say it can't be done shouldn't interrupt those who are doing it."
George Bernard Shaw



Quotes from my blogs:

"It's time to take control of my life back. No one can do this for me. The transformation is not going to happen magically. It's going to take a lot of hard work, consistency, awareness, and deliberate choices on my part. If I stick with it, I will get there."
-3/18/08 (from my blog)

"...as long as I stick to the nutrition plan... and get in my strength training and cardio most days, there is just no way for my body to support its current weight of 190+. If I stick to the plan long enough, I’ll get to my goal. It’s a scientific fact. All I need to do is stay with this and not give up in frustration or from the inability to say no to myself."
-3/17/08 (from my blog)

"The past is the past, the present is what I control, and the future will come from my current actions."
-5/1/08 (from my blog)

My exercise playlist (alphabetical - not in order of preference):

1. It's Not My Time - 3 Doors Down
2. Take A Chance On Me - ABBA
3. Mamma Mia - ABBA
4. Waterloo - ABBA
5. Dancing Queen - ABBA
6. Move Along - The All-American Rejects
7. Heat Of The Moment - Asia
8. Only Time Will Tell - Asia
9. Don't Cry - Asia
10. Girlfriend (Radio Edit) - Avril Lavigne
11. Sk8er Boi - Avril Lavigne
12. Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers
13. Pressure - Billy Joel
14. One Way Or Another - Blondie
15. Runaway - Bon Jovi
16. Holding Out For A Hero - Bonnie Tyler
17. I Like to Move It - Madagascar movie version
18. Can't Keep It In - Cat Stevens
19. Surrender - Cheap Trick
20. Mighty Wings - Cheap Trick
21. Gypsies, Tramps And Thieves - Cher
22. Higher - Creed
23. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive
24. Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
25. Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
26. Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra
27. Crocodile Rock - Elton John
28. Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting - Elton John
29. A Little Respect - Erasure
30. Oh L'Amour - Erasure
31. The Final Countdown - Europe
32. I Don't Care (Single Version) - Fall Out Boy
33. My Hero - Foo Fighters
34. Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms
35. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
36. Radar Love - Golden Earring
37. Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
38. Better Days - Goo Goo Dolls
39. What Is Love - Haddaway
40. Life (Radio Edit) - Haddaway
41. Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
42. My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson
43. Rock And Roll All Nite - KISS
44. I Was Made For Lovin' You - KISS
45. My Sharona - The Knack
46. Just Dance featuring Colby O'Donis - Lady Gaga
47. Poker Face - Lady Gaga
48. Gloria - Laura Branigan
49. I Alone - Live
50. How Far We've Come - Matchbox Twenty
51. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
52. America - Neil Diamond
53. Gotta Be Somebody - Nickelback
54. If Today Was Your Last Day - Nickelback
55. Burn It To The Ground - Nickelback
56. So What - Pink
57. Under Pressure - Queen
58. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
59. Young Turks - Rod Stewart
60. Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
61. Mother's Little Helper - The Rolling Stones
62. Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
63. Tainted Love - Soft Cell

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