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27 February 2011

Have been sick for a week. My exercise program is out the window. The only good thing that has come from being is sick, lost some weight.

Weigh-in: 266.8 lb

lost so far: 0.2 lb

still to go: 131.8 lb

Diet followed reasonably well

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10 February 2011

I REALLY don't like getting up to exercise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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09 February 2011

DANG! It's been a long time and a few pounds added since the last time I was here.

So it begins, again.

I don't like doing this. Any of it. I don't like watching what I eat. I don't like counting calories. I don't like exercising. I want to eat whatever I want and not have to worry about calories, fat, carbs and what it's going to do to my cholesterol. It's not fun.

I am not one to feel eneregized after exercise. I feel exhausted, sore and like I could lay in bed all day and be perfectly happy.

I get why I'm supposed to do all of these things. I understand what eating bad foods is going to do to me, but why do chips have to taste so good? The salty, crunchy goodness.....mmmmm.

This week I started getting up a half hour earlier just to exercise. I know it's only Wednesday and only started on Monday, but I have to admit I'm proud of myself and I take the soreness that I feel to mean I'm doing something right.

I can only take baby steps. This week the baby step is to exercise every day. I'm so out of shape I can't believe how hard it is do things I used to be able to do so easily. Just trying to do one, half way decent push-up is hard. It doesn't look pretty, that's why I make sure to go into my home office behind a closed door while most everyone is still in bed because God forbid someone actually SEE me doing those pathetic push-ups!

As much as I hate all of those things I should be doing, I hate being overweight even more and that's what I need to remind myself. The painful, ugly exercises I can barely do will get easier.

Baby steps...baby steps...

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05 February 2011

Weigh-in: 273.0 lb

lost so far: 0 lb

still to go: 138.0 lb

Diet followed N/A

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04 November 2010

well I'm giving this FatSecret a try. I haven't really tried that many things while I've been fat. Never the one to fad diets or exercise equipment. Just have sat, being fat for over 20 years now. Of course my weight is out of control now. I have some medical problems, but I don't think it's caused by my weight, but I will share them in case someone else has similar stories and any information to share is good.

I've suffered from migraines since I was pretty young, the first I remember I was about 8 yrs old. Though I think my headaches get really bad at times, and when I say bad I mean bad. Will have a headache that can last for days. It's awful. Takes just about everything I got to get through the days, working, being a mom, wife and helping to look out for family members. I have had some tests done this past year at Mayo Clinic here in Scottsdale, AZ. They really couldn't determine anything but found 3 spots on my brain they believe to be old blood spots. I don't recall exactly what the technical term they used was but they could not tell me when these occurred or how long ago. Went through a spinal tap, spinal fluid pressure was high which they figured it would be. Doctor's conclusion: I'm too fat and that's why my fluid is high which is why I'm having headaches. I remind them that I've had headaches since I was a child. Nope, my headaches are caused by my weight. This I don't completely believe.

I also have an autoimmune disease called Hashimoto's. Basically my body attacks my thyroid. I also have hypothyroidism. Now, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism years before the Hashimoto's but now the Dr's tell me that Hashimoto's is usually what causes the hypothyroidism. So it's like which came first; the chicken or the egg? I honestly don't give a shit which came first, I would just like them both to go away. When the Hashimoto's is ravaging my thyroid my thyroid levels get all out of whack and I get all puffy, break out in hives and feel like I'm dead to the world. Very pleasant symptoms. Dr's tell me that my body would work better if I wasn't so fat.

Okay, maybe the doctors don't actually say the word FAT, but you know that's what they're thinking.

So I ask them, when I have a damn headache for a week or feel like I'm practically dead and have no energy I'm supposed to get my fat ass up and go walk for 30-40 minutes every day? Could you do that if you were feeling like this??? Yeah, that's what I thought!

I try some days. Most days I don't. I will do really well with the whole watching what I eat and exercising more regularly, but then I lapse into the routine of going to work and eating out because I don't have time to make dinner before having to be some place else.

Are all these excuses? Maybe some of them. Are these all reasons I haven't lost weight? Yes.

So, make a change. Try and stick with the change and maybe a year from now I won't be the same person.

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