jennymae

Well it has been seven months since I have joined BS and decieded to turn my life around.  I was letting myself go and really not paying attention to the fact that I was gaining weight and becoming more and more unhealthy.  One day I woke up when I saw a picture of me… I was like no, that is not me.  I am that big?  So I weighed myself and I was like I really need to do something.    I joined Buddyslim for the support and motivation and that is what I found here.  I am not a big Blog girl… I stick more to the forums.  Everyday I come on here and it gives me that extra push that I need.  It has been a slow journey but I am proud of what I have accomplished.  THis is not a diet for me or some fad… this is me changing my life.  I am gonna be healthy… I practice portion control and nothing is off limits as long as I can keep the portions small.  I exercise daily, and chug water like it is my best friend.  Over these seven months I have lost 20lbs so that is about .7lbs a week.  So to all of you that think one lb or .5lbs is nothing… it adds up in the long run.  My BMI has gone from 28.2 to now 25.7.  I have gone down from size 12/14 pants to size 8/10… depending on the brand and if they are stretch jeans.  But I think the most important thing is that I feel good.  I feel like I have more energy and that the journey was well worth it.  I feel sexy and comfortable in my own skin and I feel stronger, faster, and fitter. 

Now I still have a journey ahead of me, yeah seven more pounds and I am sure these pounds are gonna give me a big fight but like they say here in spain… poco a poco… little by little.  That is my motto for my journey and whenever I gained, maintained or TOM came when I least wanted him to arrive, I said to myself poco a poco.  I just can’t throw in the towel over a gain… no way!  So here is to Buddyslim and all of us on here… you guys are great!  Thanks for being here for me and giving me the support I needed and the motivation to continue! 

Well everyone, 2009 is almost here and I can’t believe that 2008 is almost over.  I have been enjoying my time here in Wisconsin for the holiday season, even though it was hard at certain points cuz it was the first year I have been home for christmas since my parents divorce.  I kind of got stuck for three days in an emotional eating binge… and then got upset that I gained three pounds.  THen I decided that I can not be negative and feel bad for myself and my situation.  I most be strong and be more positive.  So, I started to do things how I wanted to do them and realized that eating was not the solution to my family problems.  So I bought some workout cds and took things into control.  I feel so much better now and I think I lost that weight I had gained.  I feel good and I am a lot happier.  I also went to a Zumba class yesterday and loved it!!!  It was so much fun and I love Latin Dancing… so I really want to find something like that in SPain.  I hope I can.  So for 2009 I have some new goals.  Of course one is to loose weight but I think the most important goal for me is to embrace each day to the fullest.  I want to live each day positvely and embrace everything that I have and everyone around me.  I feel really good about myself right now and I just want to continue working on me and radiating this positvity to everyone around me.  Tonight we got a hotel room downtown in my home town so that we can hang out all day in the hot tub and go swimming… I am excited cuz it is an easy way for me to get in some exercise and I am sure I will be dancing all night long.  Love that booty shaking.  Well, HAPPY NEW to all and I hope everyone has a great night!

Hey guys!  I made it home safe for the holidays and have been enjoying the Wisconsin snow.  The bad part of snow and having no gym membership is trying to get in a workout.  So this morning I woke up with my mother and helped her shovel.  Yeah shoveling is a workout baby!!!  Looked it up online and you burn about 400 calories for an hour.  I am content with that.  Well to keep the exercise up I am gonna be using my mother’s wi fit board cuz running in this slippery snowy mess is just asking for an accident.  Must keep strong over the holidays… will try to workout a lot each day to be able to try and maintain my weight loss.  I hope everyone is having a great weekend and lots of holiday fun.  Lots of love and besos to all of you guys.  WIsh me luck, cuz today is christmas with my mom, brother and sister in law.  We are luckily eating shrimp, prime rib and salad… sooooo more salad and shrimp and less prime rib. 

Yes that is right… this morning I stepped on the scale and it flinched just enough to loose .5 of a kilo which means I lost that .333333333333 of a pound I have been trying to loose for two or three weeks now.  So I now weigh 154 and I made it to my mini goal. Not only did I make it to my mini goal I achieved my goal of wanting to be at my mini goal before going home for Christmas.  Today I set my new mini goal at 149.  I am hoping to achieve that by the end of January.  Well now I must pack, and pack and pack some more cuz my ass is going to Wisconsin!!!  I am soooo excited… two years without Christmas with my family and friends.  I may be a little MIA this coming up week but I am gonna try and connect to Buddy slim once a day because it helps me.  When I am hungry I go on Buddy Slim and like magic the hunger is gone.  You guys are great and be strong over the holidays.  Besos!!!! 

Well I am so freakin close to my mini goal. I have been tasting it for like two weeks now.  It is right there but I just can’t quite reach it. I weigh 70 kilos which is 154.3 lbs… I refuse to round down my weight.  I am really hoping that Wednesday morning I will weigh 154 lbs.  I just really want to go home weighing my mini goal.  I got a little frustatd cuz I haven’t lost too much weight while being on Buddy slim, I have only lost 6lbs.  But I tried on a pair pants that barely buttoned before and now I can button them.  They are still tooo tight but with another six weeks I can fit into them.  Little by little.  I am not trying to rush this weight loss cuz I want it to stay and be more of a life style change.  Have a great week everyone!

So this past week I have started to increase my exercise level and I feel really good about it. I am now realizing though that I can increase my exercise a little bit more in different ways.  I want to start to do a little exercise before I go to bed. I am thinking that before going to bed I want to do some abs and then some sun salutations.  I am gonna test it out tommorow and then set some concrete goals.  Also I am gonna weigh in on Wednesday morning and I am a little nervous but excited at the same time.  I have only two more wiegh ins before I leave for the USA.  I really want to loose at least two more pounds.  Still keeping up on the water and haven’t eaten my trigger foods, gummies, donuts, or ice cream, for over 6 weeks.  Okay to all a good Monday and a great WEEK!!!

Yes that is right, I bought a scale on Thursday.  I was sick of going to the Faramcia and having to weigh myself with all my clothes and shoes and then estimate how much I really weighed.  So Friday morning I got up, went pee and stepped on my scale butt naked and guess what… I lost another kilo… Which means about two pounds.  So I am now at 155.  I am almost to my mini goal and that was my goal before going to the USA for Christmas.  I leave in ten days so I am hoping to loose at least one pound… would like to loose two more pounds but we will see.  Would like to increase my exericse a little more so that I can make sure to get to my mini goal.  Everyone have a great Saturday!  Besos(kisses in Spainish)

Good morning to everyone.  These past two days I have been out of it and I have been here sick with a cold or in SPain as they call it the gripe.  I am a little upset cuz I had all these good intentions to start the month of December strong and instead I am in bed drinking hot milk with honey and lots of juices.  Well, I have been a member of Buddy slim now for a little more then five weeks.  I have made some progress but not as much progress as I would like. So I am making new goals.  My first goal of the week is to buy a scale.  I hate not being able to weigh myself in my house and see how much I have lost each week or how much I have gained.  Also I want to make sure to drink at least 2 liters of water each day and stay away from my trigger foods.  I would also like to run during the entire month of december 10 times.  My goal is to run at least ten times… so no excuses.  I must do it.  I might not get my first run into the end of this week since  I am feeling down and under but that is okay.  Also I want to try and do some yoga strength trainer and core exercises I have found.  Maybe twice a week.  I just need to increase my exercise a little bit that is all.  Well my goal for December is to get to my mini goal before I go home for the holidays.  I leave Spain on December 18th so I would like to be at 154 by then.  First thing is to buy a scale… which I will do on Thursday.  Then on Friday I will weigh in and see where I am.

So… I have been trying to loose weight for one month.  I have lost more or less four lbs… my grid says only two pounds cuz I converted kilos to pounds incorrectly.  I am happy about four pounds, but also wishing it would be a little more.  The other thing is that I am not running latley… so I know that if I start running I will loose more wieght.  WEll, about the mirror thing.  I have always been a curvy girl… I mean I have a huge ass…  One of those girls that from the front you don’t see it coming but bang she turns around and you have a big thing in your face.  Luckily it is a nice ass… I like my ass.  Okay that is a side note.  What I don’t like is my stomach… and since loosing this wieght and thinking more about my wieght I have been obessioning with my stomach and how it looks in the mirror.  I just can’t stop thinking about it…  I know I am beautiful so why the heck cant I find my stomach beautiful… it really isn’t that big anyways… My boyfriend find me sexy so why can’t I.   Seriously a month ago I found myself sexy and now that I am loosing weight I am thinking that before I wasn’t sexy I was fat.  So now it is hard only after loosing four pounds not to think I am fat… but I am not fat… I am curvy with some extra package… A little more to love… right?  Okay so I just needed to let this out.  Sometimes when I start to loose wieght that is all I can think about and only think about my body and when I can fit into those jeans that I have had for three years.  So I must continue doing the things that I am doing cuz it is working… slowly but surely and also try to focus on other things like my friends, family, boyfriend and work.

Okay so things seem to be going good. I have been able to keep up with my water intake and I have not eaten donuts, ice cream or gummies in three whole weeks.  That is a defeat in its own.  This weekend I weighed myself on two different home bathroom scales and it seems that I have had a weight loss of 5lbs.  I want to double check with a farmacy scale that is more accurate just to make sure.  This week I am not sure if I am gonna be able to get in my runs due to the whole dizzy and almost feelign like I wanna puke thing.  So my weekly goals are to at least walk each day 45 minutes and to make note of how much I walk in a journal.  Second goal is that three times a week I wake up and do some yoga exercises that I found in the Spanish Cosmo and some Abs three times this week.  One more thing… I was interested in joining one of those weight loss challenges so when one starts please tell me… and tell me how it is done because I am a little clueless about that.  Okay to all I hope that you have a good week and that temptation does not overcome your good intentions to slim down.