taking-it-back-blog

New Year...New Me!

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:16:12 +0100

So as everyone knows it’s the New Year, and I am so excited! I am excited to be able to start my new diet and exercise routine. Friday I am going grocery shopping, I have already made my list out from the recipes that the National Body Challenge gives you. The cost of groceries will increase slightly but I think it is well worth it even if I just lose a few pounds.

On Saturday I am going to the gym mostly so I can weigh myself and do my measurements. This part is kind of scary just because it will be a real wakeup call as to how much work I really have to do. I am also going to take a picture of myself so I can put I up on my refrigerator next to one from high school (before my thyroid stopped working) and every time I want a snack I hope the pictures will detour me.

Many updates to come!

Sold!

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:52:48 +0100

Earlier today I had seen an advertisement for Discoveries National Body Challenge. This program really caught my attention mainly because I have an obscenely large amount of weight to lose. I checked out the site:

http://health.discovery.com/national-body-challenge/national-body-challenge.html

After clicking around the site for about twenty minutes (reading and downing my homework) and I was sold! I signed up for this FREE program which gives you a workout plan, menus, and support to lose a healthy amount of weight, in a healthy amount of time!

With signing up for this program my plan for this blog has short of changed! I will now be blogging daily about what the program has entailed for me, what I did or didn’t do. Then on Sunday I will be writing my big blog with an update on my progress.

I am so excited and can’t wait for the weekend so I can start working out!

Taking It Back

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:51:39 +0100

Due to the complications of my Multiple Sclerosis my thyroid has stopped working. The joys of not having a properly working thyroid I have gain a few or like sixty. Now granted all of that weight gain can’t be blamed on just my thyroid, or even the birth of my son, I am to blame as well. I had been going to the gym but my boyfriend got put onto the shut-down circuit, making it very difficult to fit time into the gym. However after the New Years things will be going back to normal, thank you God! This means that my New Years resolution not too shockingly is going to be losing weight. With Josh having weekends off it will be the perfect time to start going back to the gym.

On top of the typical benefits of weight loss I have another reason to get back to my original weight, my Multiple Sclerosis. The additional weight has a tendency of causing additional flairs, which is difficult not just on me and my body but the entire family.

With most my friends and family living at least twenty minutes away I have little support besides Josh. My plan is to use this blog to help give me additional incentive to succeed. I will write a blog the first of every week with an update on my progress. My goal is to loss two pounds a week for a year, this way I am not pushing myself to do anything unhealthy! And at the end of the year if I succeed I will be giving everything in my closet to charity, and buying all brand new.