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When I got married, I weighed 133 pounds. No, I didn't gain weight after marriage. After I turned 22 and began working full-time at a desk, extra pounds slowly krept up on me. It took over a year before I noticed my svelt new body! I didn't own a scale, and most of my clothing stretched with me. I finally noticed my newly expanded body when I started wearing my summer wardrobe. Some stuff didn't fit anymore. I figured that I would easily shed the weight. After all, I'd always been able to eat anything (and tons of it) and never gained a pound!
I guess age and my fairly sedentary lifestyle caught up with me. After I got married, and received a scale as wedding present, I realized how much weight I'd gained. I'm 5' and used to weigh around 110. At 133, everyone could tell that I'd become rather chunky. After hearing too many people mention that I looked a little heavier, I decided a major lifestyle change was in order!
Since I'd always been able to eat lots of junk and never gained, I needed to learn how to eat properly. This lesson has taken me nearly 2 years to learn. I've slowly learned how to portion out my food and read nutrition labels. I started off my weight loss journey by cutting out all junk food. I've always been one devour cookies and cheese crunchies and loads of other junk during the work day. It was a very sad day when I realized that I had to stop eating all this.
I think that cutting out snacks took off 5 pounds. I also tried out the South Beach diet which didn't work out for me b/c I was always hungry and couldn't keep to such a strict lifestyle (although I did lose a few pounds on that as well). I joined the JCC, but didn't stick with it. I tried the Special K diet, and lost around 4 pounds.
4 months ago I joined another gym and began working out 4-5 times a week. This, together with keeping to a good diet (or just eating correctly) has helped me close in on my goal. It's also helped that I have high cholesterol and I'm on a low-fat diet - which basically amounts to following the food pyramid and eating a balanced diet. It's very easy to stick to.
I currently weigh 117 and my goal is 108. Hopefully I'll get there soon!
I guess age and my fairly sedentary lifestyle caught up with me. After I got married, and received a scale as wedding present, I realized how much weight I'd gained. I'm 5' and used to weigh around 110. At 133, everyone could tell that I'd become rather chunky. After hearing too many people mention that I looked a little heavier, I decided a major lifestyle change was in order!
Since I'd always been able to eat lots of junk and never gained, I needed to learn how to eat properly. This lesson has taken me nearly 2 years to learn. I've slowly learned how to portion out my food and read nutrition labels. I started off my weight loss journey by cutting out all junk food. I've always been one devour cookies and cheese crunchies and loads of other junk during the work day. It was a very sad day when I realized that I had to stop eating all this.
I think that cutting out snacks took off 5 pounds. I also tried out the South Beach diet which didn't work out for me b/c I was always hungry and couldn't keep to such a strict lifestyle (although I did lose a few pounds on that as well). I joined the JCC, but didn't stick with it. I tried the Special K diet, and lost around 4 pounds.
4 months ago I joined another gym and began working out 4-5 times a week. This, together with keeping to a good diet (or just eating correctly) has helped me close in on my goal. It's also helped that I have high cholesterol and I'm on a low-fat diet - which basically amounts to following the food pyramid and eating a balanced diet. It's very easy to stick to.
I currently weigh 117 and my goal is 108. Hopefully I'll get there soon!
posted by Mir @ 2:06 PM
2 Comments:
At 10:27 AM,
Sara from BLY said…
Your scale should not have been the tip-off, how you looked and felt should told you what was going on.
didn't your clothes fit you differently?
At 9:45 AM,
Mir said…
Yes, I said in my post that some clothing didn't fit. However, I didn't accept that I'd gained weight until I saw the numbers on the scale.
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