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Florida!! September 2012
Oh, Marilyn...
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"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." --W. Dyer
I am a 24-year-old recent college grad and retail employee trying my best to win what has been a constant and life-long struggle with weight. I've made real progress--but I am so not done yet! :-)
I really reached this point when I began to realize there were real issues with my body and my attitude toward food. Eating had become part of a terrible cycle of depression for me...I was tired all the time. I found myself often using food as a motivation for things, giving in to ...
I am a 24-year-old recent college grad and retail employee trying my best to win what has been a constant and life-long struggle with weight. I've made real progress--but I am so not done yet! :-)
I really reached this point when I began to realize there were real issues with my body and my attitude toward food. Eating had become part of a terrible cycle of depression for me...I was tired all the time. I found myself often using food as a motivation for things, giving in to every craving, indulging my terrible eating habits, just to keep myself feeling motivated and even close to happy.
In 2011, I decided it was time to make a change. I remember my boyfriend opening the internet browser on my laptop, and the SparkPeople homepage popped up as my homepage--he said "Wow--you really are serious!" But it wasn't until I'd lost 25 pounds and changed most of my habits, that I felt I had made a difference.
In 2012, I moved 1,000 miles from NJ to FL, and I got sloppy...new places are a great opportunity to form new habits, but they can be serious temptation to return to old ones. While searching for a better job, I got pretty depressed...I felt like I had no control over my life, my career, etc...until I realized that I had control over my habits, my hobbies, my work-outs...what went into my body, and what I did with it. So, here I am again, 9 pounds back in the hole, but determined and desperate to regain that feeling of control and those wonderful, wonderful endorphins!!
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Member Since: 12/12/2009
SparkPoints: 19,810
Fitness Minutes: 10,784
My Goals:
Weight Loss Goals:
160 - May 23
150 - June 30
140 - August 17
For Life:
1) Lose Weight. (This one is, of course, compound.)
2) Exercise willpower. (Again--compound, and in numerous parts of my life.)
3) Read more.
4) Stay positive.
5) Honor the body.
6) Take a little time for me, everyday.
My Program:
1) Cook more, eat out less.
2) Get some exercise every day.
3) 8 glasses/8 ounces, every day.
4) Follow the doctor's advice: 5-6 servings of fruits/veggies the size of my fist, every day.
Personal Information:
I am 24 years old, from New Jersey, and recently relocated to Florida! I currently work at Target, and have a wonderful and supportive long-term boyfriend (who, in addition to being wonderful and supportive, is the man with whom I cook and work out--so that's why he gets a profile mention, lol)!
Other Information:
Books I've Read in the Past 6 Months:
1) My Story by Marilyn Monroe
2) The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
3) Drown by Junot Diaz
4) My Alexandria by Mark Doty
5) Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive: Poems by Patrick Rosal
6) Up Jump the Boogie by John Murillo
7) The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
8) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
9) The Philosopher's Diet by Richard A. Watson
10) Daisy Miller by Henry James
11) House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
12) Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
13) The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
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