Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Hello

Hi who ever is out there,

Here's a little about me;

Im 23 years old, and I have struggled with my weight as long as I can remember. High School was probably the triggering years of where it all began with the word DIET. To me that word means failure, disappointment....restrictions...

During the summer for Grade 10, my mom put me on a 2 week no carb diet...you've all probably heard about a similar diet: fast fat loss, but crazy diet?...well for me it worked! I lost 20lb in 2 weeks...(now that I think of it I find that scary and completely unhealthy!).
When I went back to school (now in grade 11)...everyone noticed my weight loss, I looked good, and I got so addicted to weight loss, that I became annorexic....
Around christmas time, I fainted in a mall and that scared me so much that I began to eat again.
2 years later....Im back to where I started, here I was 150 lbs (i was 5'2)...and unhappy...
My mom made me join Weight Watchers fall of 2004....6 months later.....118 lbs feeling the best I had ever felt in my entire life! Met a cute boy....fell in love...

Tell me if that has happened to you: You start to go out with a guy...and stop working out....spend every moment with him and eat what ever he wants to eat....sounds familiar?

Well thats what happened to me!

Now I'm not one to blame others on my action, my ex never forced food I didnt want to eat down my throat...but being with him made me lose track of what was important to me. I no longer thought about me...I thought about us...about what he wants...

So here I am 3 years later....always struggling with my weight....weight loss and gain...Yo-Yo'ing I guess you would call it....


So now you have little idea of my weight struggles!

So, what am I doing now??

Im picking up the pieces, in August I got a job in my field and moved to montreal...things were changing so fast...and food and working out were not in my priority list....

But now I am ready, its not going to be easy...its probably going to be messy and emotional...but I am signing on to a LIFE CHANGE....its no diet....its just how I want to live my life!

I've been eating so good this week and I even went to a gym class last night and im running today (training for a half marathon with my twin sister!). So a lot of changes...but im so excited!

Well now its 6:30 and I better get ready for work!

Whats on the menu today?

breakfast:
Protein Oatmeal:
- 1/3 cup of oats
- 1/3 cup of unsweetened almond breeze
- 2/3 cup of water
- 1 scoop of chocolate whey powder
- 1/2 banana
topped with a vita top muffin :o)

Snack:
Green Monster Smoothie
- 1 banana
- 1 cup of unsweetened almond breeze
- loads of spinach
- 3 ice cubes
- 1 tbs of macca powder

Lunch:
butternut squash soup
2 sprouted grain toasts
carrots

Snack
Pumpkin yogourt
- 1/2 cup of vanilla yogourt
- 2 tbs of pumpkin pure

That's all I got for now!
Off to work!