Blogging Your Way to Better Health

The good news is, when your legs heal you will have added muscle. Practice makes perfect so keep moving to increase your strength. You entered the challenge with a clear objective and that will help you with everyday temptations.

This is the start to a great challenge, good luck and within everyone of us is a hidden athlete. Now so us your strength.

I tried as hard as I could, with a baby to take care, and I trained for 2h30 this week. I lost my first pound! (Well, I'm always runing to do the chores, take care of my baby, carrying her around the house and playing with her, so it counts as a workout too.)

I hoped my husband would join me, he even suscribed to the challenge, but so far, I do this almost by myself! *sigh

But anyway, I'm proud that I found some time to exercise, altough I have to get up at night for my baby, and I'm proud I lost my first pound! : )

I feel very confident today that I will achieve my goal...but alas...its not 9pm at night yet and that's when I struggle. I struggle with eating just to eat and to fulfill that nightly eating habit I have.

I also tend to quit things I start because I think in my head that I won't be able to do it anyway. But I really want to succeed at losing this weight. Just to feel good about ME, to believe in myself and to believe that if I set my mind to something ...I can actually achieve it. I am tired of my self-defeating attitude. I choose today, right now, to believe in myself, to believe in a healthy lifestyle, to good choices and to positive supportive family and friends!!

Now, talk to me at 9:00 and I pray that I still feel the same way! LOL!

I am really excited for this journey! I have been overweight since I was 10! Being pulled out of every sport I ever started as a kid, didn't help much. My brother was in hockey and that just cost to much money, I was told. So I spent most of my time in front of a television. I had no friends so I guess food became my friend.
I have a small hand so I could not participate in a lot of school sports, and the teacher I had would not adapt it for me. I got a C in PE because the teacher said I did not apply my self. Well I can't play basketball with one hand.
There is no excuse for my gaining weight. It is all my fault. I could sit here and try and blame others, but that will not get me anywhere.
I had tried to lose weight through diet, or programs, but it has never worked. It is not that the program were bad, I just wasn't ready to do it. I think what finally got me here was seeing my sister gain tons of weight from her pregnancy and thinking to myself," I don't want that to be me". I want to have a routine and be healthy, so that when I have kids, I can gain what is appropriate and loose it after. To be an example to my children. To go out on an adventure somewhere and know that my kids will be okay.

This is my first time at blogging, but one of many attempts at weight loss! What is different this time? I'm trying to focus more on being healthy - exercise and better food choices. I've got 49 pounds to lose, and my goal is to run a 5K in May - I have never run before.

I was wondering if anyone has any helpful tips on how to stop evening/night snacking? I find I always want a snack before bed, whether I'm hungry or not, and I read that we should not eat 3 hours before bed. Any tips?

Just want to say to all of you above CONGRATS!! You(we) are all "trying" and that is what any challenge is about. Remember we are all in this together and no doubt we all will feel like giving up at times (even though we just go started). Lets prove to ourselves and the whole X-Weighted community that we can do it!! I too want to get back into the pool, do some exercising but have to wait a month or so before I get back at it so in the meantime, I am walking 400 steps (Up and Down staircase) and plan to go back to Line Dancing this coming week (anything to help me move) and dancing is one of my favorite things to do, sooo... Again Good Luck and "Keep on Keepin On!"

I love cookies.

I mean REALLY love them.

Not the store bought kind. The rich dark double chocolate chewy cookies Martha Stewart taught me how to bake. You know the ones, a double batch contains two & a half bags of semi-sweet chocolate chips, and two pounds of dark baker's chunks. There are other ingredients to above mentioned cookies, but who cares what they are. Inconsequential, really. What makes this love affair with a cookie unusual, is I do not even like chocolate!

I understand. I have never been one to do as I am told. Wanting what I cannot eat the day I start a weight-loss journey is typical Jesabel. It's as though I will prove I can eat 500 calorie cookies and still lose weight. I have to admit, I have given in. Three of those sweet succulent temptations, one per day. Have I lost weight, yes, definitely. Five pounds. That result makes me happy, obviously, but there is still that niggling in the back of my mind when I read the scale, whispering, wondering what my weight would be if I had just said no.

This love affair won't last, and I know next week those soft chocolatey cookies will be replaced. Maybe by streudel, pavlova, or perhaps I will finally find my heart's one true desire is really bean sprouts.

well here I am still with wet hair from my first Deep water jog, and boy it is harder than it looks. I like the fact that Iam starting this with all of you and you all are going to help me stay on track.

The past 6 months I have lost 25 pounds,,,ya uauauau, but Iam all flabby and dangally. So my goal is to get fit. and not have a flat ass (opps can I say that?).

So good luck all

Anna

Started today and exercised for the first time since... hmmm... can't remember except for the 5 meter dash between couch and fridge! I'm so excited to get started! Feel better already!

Well, I just signed up today but I've been working on shedding my excess pounds for the past week. I've joined our fun weight loss group at work which we've nicknamed, Flight Fat Camp (we're a bunch of flight nurses). In the last week, I'm down 5.2lb and happy to be on my way to a healthier and happier me. I've got some friends and family on here who are also taking the challenge with me. It won't be as easy as it was to lose the 5.2 lb but I'm ready for the challenge. Here's to the new healthier me and best of luck to all of you committing to the challenge in 2010!

I want to regain my power and self-confidence. I have gone from a healthy vibrant woman who was running half marathons, playing recreational soccer and feeling on top of the world to a woman who, through a series of setbacks, has become unmotivated, self-defeating and self-conscious. I hope this journey will move me forward to a new place of health and happiness.

I did the fitness test this morning and now my legs hurt.
I had a tough time and saw that my fitness is not good.
I did enter this challenge to help me attain my goal.