New Year's 2011 - Here I Go!!

Here is how I like to eat.  Processed crap from a processed food store.  Chuck it in the oven for half an hour, filled with cheese and salt and sugar.  Homemade cheese sauce over the twice baked potato...but alas, homemade does not mean natural or good for me.

Here I go!!

I'm not going to post before pictures until I have some success to share.  Not exactly something I want shown at this point.

So here I am, 185 pounds.  I'm 5'7'' or 5'8''  I'm not sure which.  Size 18.  I used to be so slim without trying when I was younger.  I know people hear that one all the time.  I used to hear it from the grown ups when I was a preteen... "Enjoy it while you can...blah blah blah." And of course I never believed it would happen to me.  I've gained 50 pounds in my ten years of marriage.

So what are my goals?  And how will I achieve them?

I took a look online at more than one site to make sure that they all kinda agreed to a certain point, using calculators to figure out what I'm supposedly supposed to weigh and what my BMI is supposed to be as well as what it probably is based on my current information as I plug it in.  More accurate measurements will be taken tomorrow and posted, however, I wanted to get started now.

So what should I supposedly weigh?  I know that you can't go solely on this, but I'm borderline obese, as surprised as people are when I tell them this.  In fact, they don't believe me lol...guess I'm kinda lucky (in a way) but not so much as my health is hurting.  Supposedly, I should be 163 as a maximum.  Actually "back in the day"when  I weighed 165 or so, I remember thinking I was at the top of where I should be for my height and body type.

So, I'm going to lose 22 pounds by April 1st.    This works out to 1.8 pounds a week.  This goal may change based on how things go.  It would also be nice to be back to a size 6 or 8 like I was 10 years ago...I'll worry about dress sizes a little later once I get somewhere...

According to the calculators, my BMI is 28.1.  If I lose 22 pounds, then it should be around 25.1.  So this goal goes hand in hand with the weight goal.  And of course, tomorrow we will be using the proper tools to get an actual reading on my BMI.

So how am I going to do this?  Well, there's a few things that I'm going to be doing, of course I'll be exercising.  But that doesn't cut it when it comes down to it.  It's going to be mainly diet.  I've been a big advocate over the years for food combining diets, the alklaline diet and similar others (but never Atkins even though that's a food combining method - I will never EVER endorse his awful unhealthy method!!!!).  I've had massive success with the two I mentioned, and it was quite easy.  Problem was motivation once I got married.

Recently we've stumbled upon the Paleo Diet and I'm going to give this one a try.  Everything I'm reading about in it makes sense, and some of it even supports the Alkaline diet (only some though lol it is far from the alklaline diet in the strictness and I don't have to cut out meat).

I'm going to carry on with the Bootcamp and Zumba classes that I've begun at the gym...they are so fun...Bootcamp kicks my ass though.

I did try the Beginner's spin a few weeks ago...what an eye opener.  Even when I'm out of shape, I usually score off the charts in terms of how well my heart works.  And I have ALWAYS finished an exercise class.

Beginner's Spin was a different experience altogether.  Wanna guess how long I lasted?  I'm so ashamed to say...
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10 minutes.

10 minutes!!!!!!!!  WTF??????????  I'm the cardio queen for crying out loud!  Now in my defense, cycling has always been my weakest activity and I usually stay away from it.  When I was doing my triathlons, the cycle was what put me down so far on time.

Well, I told the instructor dude that I was done.  I was barely moving and was still going anaerobic.  Weird for me.  Couldn't stand ride for more than 15 seconds.

I went a week later with the goal of hitting 15 minutes.  I made it to 25.  I was very happy with this result.  I was able to keep up without killing myself.  And instructor dude said good job to me because he knew it is a problem for me...

Christmas hit and I haven't been back, but I am aiming to go back in a week or two, 30 minutes is my next goal.  I will eventually finish one of those damned classes!

My main focus will be what I'm eating and just being overall more active.  3 cups of coffee is going down to 1 starting tomorrow morning!  That's a toughy for me lol...I'll be back tomorrow with my measurements!!