Tubby Tuesday

OK....I always told myself that I was NEVER going to post about my weight on my blog but since very few read this is I thought, What the Hell! There have been recent talks about starting a family..... NO MOM...not anytime soon but in March I found out I have PCOS and being overweight will make trying to conceive even harder then it will already be. So becoming healthy not only for myself but for my future children is what has become my motivation. Oh and plus I'M HUGE!!!

A blog I love to check into has tracked her weight loss with "McFatty Mondays" so I opted for "Tubby Tuesdays!" A way to just post about my weekly ups and downs and my progress during this journey.

I was looking through my blog and realized I had a blog post titled "Fat to Fit" I started on last Summer and I guess you could say this is were it all began.

5/27/10

Now that summer is here I have realized I can’t fit into my Honeymoon bikinis that I worked so hard to get into. (Probably shouldn’t have worn one anyways but no one knew me in Mexico!) Brian and I sure have put on the post wedding weight. It seemed like it took so long to lose so I could fit into my wedding dress and with an All-Inclusive vacation and some weekly Chinese for dinner I had put it right back.

With Jordan back we decided that since we are both in upcoming weddings we will lose weight for theirs since we didn’t lose that much weight for mine!! For the last 2 weeks he has been coming over at 6:45am to work out. We started going to the gym to run and lift weights and sometimes switched it up with some Pilates. Then I was flipping through channels on the TV and discovered all the different videos on Exercise TV. I had heard things about Jillian Michaels-Trainer on the Biggest Loser’s 30 day Shred video. I would see people post status on Facebook about how they had started and how hard it was. They were right!

Fastforward.....8/23/11

So a year later the workouts with Jordan have stopped but the weekly Chinese food did not! I have always been a big girl. I never remember being a size 2 or having a flat tummy. Maybe age 6? LoL I have never had issues with my body but when I stop taking pictures of myself because I hate the way I look, there is a problem. Mainly because I just love looking back at pictures and this past year there isn't many because I don't even recognize myself!

Around March last year is when I hit in all time high on the scale. I almost fainted. What has happened to me. It takes me 5 months to lose 25lbs for my wedding and it takes just 2 months if that to put it all back on plus more. WHY...Do I do this to myself???

In the last year I don't know how many fad diets I did. With the usual big result but then by Day 3 I'm miserbale and hit up the McDonalds. I continued with no changes in my eating or getting off my ass but just kept telling myself by Christmas I will loose 20lbs..NOPE by Graduation I will be back to my wedding weight...NOPE by Heather's wedding I will be back in my wedding dress size...HELL NO!! That sure was a horrible experience having to exchange it 3 times because I was so FAT! After seeing myself in pictures from her wedding I yelled out HOLY COW. Literally I looked like a big fat cow! Sorry Heather for being the "fat" bridesmaid.

After her wedding I signed right up for Weight Watchers. Not online but to the meetings where I get motivation and ideas along with working hard to see the results on the scale. Weight Watchers is what worked in the first place but it takes the longest time. Ahhh!

But I'm excited to share my results in the past 3 weeks!

July 25th My Journey Begins! Weigh In at the meeting and almost break the scale!
Week 1- Down 4.4
Week 2- Down 2.4 YAY! Earned my 5lb Star!
Week 3- Down .2 Boo! Didn't track my points very well!!

Total Weight Loss= 7lbs

We went swimming on Sunday and my sweet brother asked if I had lost weight. Well yes I have! But until I see it in pictures no I haven't!

Weigh-In Day hasn't arrived this week. My work schedule varies so I go when I can. I would like to go Thursday but I have a Date with Evan and I doubt he would like to sit through the meeting!

Sundays and Thursday are my workout days with my new neighbor Julianna. She is my highschool friend who moved in across the street. She is skinny as a stick which keeps me motivated. We tried out water aerobics Sunday..... very entertaining and walking/running the the park planned for Thursday plus bowling! Hey everything counts!

I'm on the right track and just have to keep on moving. My goal for the the first month was to track points! Goal for the second month exercise atleast 3x/week!

I leave you with my inspiration picture circa 2005. Haha Please ignore the bottle of alcohol! The ability to wear a low cut shirt with no mountain of cleavage, in that size and no double chin is right where I'm headed!