Foxfiregrrl
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 6, 2005
I have been debating starting this journal for a week or so now, but I have finally decided to take the plunge. I started WISH on Jan. 3rd of this year.
I am 27 years old. I've been married for almost 4 years now. My DH and I are currently having a house built and hope to be in it by Thanksgiving. We plan to start trying to have a child around the end of this year or beginning of next year. I want to be healthier and have a healthier and more active lifestyle before we start our family.
My goal is to lose 65 pounds by August 1st. I started this journey at 205 lbs. I have lost 5 lbs so far.
I am not following any particular diet program. I am just trying to eat more fruits and vegetables, and fewer calories and fat. I try to stay below 1600 calories and 30 fat grams a day. Most days I have no problem staying under on calories but fat is a struggle. I know that if I am eating the right foods it shouldn't be but it is anyway.
Since the beginning of January I have exercised 5 or 6 days a week. Mostly I walk. My DH and I walk together when he gets home from work, which isn't until 6:45! My parents live next door, so my mom joins me for walking a lot of the time. She gets home earlier so sometimes I will walk w/ my mom for 30 minutes or so and then with DH for how ever long he wants to, usually 30 minutes. If I get motivated during the day I do some situps and floor exercises. I have several workout videos in storage. I want to get them out so that I can use them also.
I have been tracking my foods on Fitday.com and joining the challenges here on the Disboards. I have kept it up for a month now which is longer than I have ever continuously tracked my food or exercise. I want to keep it up and posting on these boards has been a Really Big help to me.
Some background on me:
I graduated with my bachelor's degree in Social Work last May. I worked part time for organization that I did my internship with until November. My Dh and I moved back to Macon, Ga (from Alpharetta, Ga) in November. Our families are here and we wanted to be near them again before starting our family. We moved in with my grandparents as a way to save money while we looked for a house. We didn't find a house right away and found a builder with a house plan we Loved, so we are building. This puts us in my grandparents house WAY longer than I had ever considered! It is a challenge.
A big factor is that I thought I would be able to find a job quickly, but as of yet have not been able to get one. I applied with DFACS in all of the counties near where we live, but have received no response. However, I applied this week at a Non Profit and they called me today for an interview!! I am very excited about that! It is the type of work that I was doing before we moved and I think that it will be a great position if I get it.
I have been challenged living with my grandparents because I am here w/ them (particularly my grandmother) all day and we get under each others skin. I have been just trying to stay in my part of the house most of the day so that I don't encounter her constantly, but it is hard. I think that once I have a job it will be a lot better.
The other BIG challenge in living with my grandparents is trying to diet! She loves to cook but everything she cooks is fattening or bad in some major way. Dh has to be careful with sodium because he has had high blood pressure in the past. When we first moved in I was happy to let her do most of the cooking, but when we started trying to lose weight at the first of the year I had to start cooking myself again. Sometimes she is fine about it but other times she seems to take it personally that I don't want her cooking. She has been watching her weight and dieting my whole life so this shouldn't be a big deal. But when she cooks it is generally bad AND she will claim "that doesn't have any fat/grease/etc. in it" when it clearly does. Like tonight she fried salmon patties and offered them to us saying "they don't have any grease in them". I know that they probably weren't the worst things we could eat, but it is the principal of the matter. I don't trust anything she makes to be healthy anymore.
I am 27 years old. I've been married for almost 4 years now. My DH and I are currently having a house built and hope to be in it by Thanksgiving. We plan to start trying to have a child around the end of this year or beginning of next year. I want to be healthier and have a healthier and more active lifestyle before we start our family.
My goal is to lose 65 pounds by August 1st. I started this journey at 205 lbs. I have lost 5 lbs so far.
I am not following any particular diet program. I am just trying to eat more fruits and vegetables, and fewer calories and fat. I try to stay below 1600 calories and 30 fat grams a day. Most days I have no problem staying under on calories but fat is a struggle. I know that if I am eating the right foods it shouldn't be but it is anyway.
Since the beginning of January I have exercised 5 or 6 days a week. Mostly I walk. My DH and I walk together when he gets home from work, which isn't until 6:45! My parents live next door, so my mom joins me for walking a lot of the time. She gets home earlier so sometimes I will walk w/ my mom for 30 minutes or so and then with DH for how ever long he wants to, usually 30 minutes. If I get motivated during the day I do some situps and floor exercises. I have several workout videos in storage. I want to get them out so that I can use them also.
I have been tracking my foods on Fitday.com and joining the challenges here on the Disboards. I have kept it up for a month now which is longer than I have ever continuously tracked my food or exercise. I want to keep it up and posting on these boards has been a Really Big help to me.
Some background on me:
I graduated with my bachelor's degree in Social Work last May. I worked part time for organization that I did my internship with until November. My Dh and I moved back to Macon, Ga (from Alpharetta, Ga) in November. Our families are here and we wanted to be near them again before starting our family. We moved in with my grandparents as a way to save money while we looked for a house. We didn't find a house right away and found a builder with a house plan we Loved, so we are building. This puts us in my grandparents house WAY longer than I had ever considered! It is a challenge.
A big factor is that I thought I would be able to find a job quickly, but as of yet have not been able to get one. I applied with DFACS in all of the counties near where we live, but have received no response. However, I applied this week at a Non Profit and they called me today for an interview!! I am very excited about that! It is the type of work that I was doing before we moved and I think that it will be a great position if I get it.
I have been challenged living with my grandparents because I am here w/ them (particularly my grandmother) all day and we get under each others skin. I have been just trying to stay in my part of the house most of the day so that I don't encounter her constantly, but it is hard. I think that once I have a job it will be a lot better.
The other BIG challenge in living with my grandparents is trying to diet! She loves to cook but everything she cooks is fattening or bad in some major way. Dh has to be careful with sodium because he has had high blood pressure in the past. When we first moved in I was happy to let her do most of the cooking, but when we started trying to lose weight at the first of the year I had to start cooking myself again. Sometimes she is fine about it but other times she seems to take it personally that I don't want her cooking. She has been watching her weight and dieting my whole life so this shouldn't be a big deal. But when she cooks it is generally bad AND she will claim "that doesn't have any fat/grease/etc. in it" when it clearly does. Like tonight she fried salmon patties and offered them to us saying "they don't have any grease in them". I know that they probably weren't the worst things we could eat, but it is the principal of the matter. I don't trust anything she makes to be healthy anymore.