Hello all. I have a confession. I have always been a yo-yo dieter, a compulsive over-eater, workaholic and when it comes to most exercise or anything that requires structure or discipline... quite lazy. That actually sounds more like several confessions but they are all quite true.
At 25, I'm working as a representative/organizer for a worker's rights organization and struggle to control my schedule and therefore plan out my menus; fitting in exercise after a twelve hour day is quite daunting.
It doesn't help at all that my fiance is a PHD grad student, writing a book and dissertation, so he has plenty of free time to workout and de-stress. I come home and he's making homemade pizza full of cheesy goodness and pasta loaded with... more cheesy goodness. In the past, he's always been an excellent cook and quite a "saboteur" of my efforts.
About a year and half ago, I enrolled at a local taekwondo studio. I've been training ever since. Not only has martial arts training boosted my confidence; but by sticking with it, something I have never been inclined to do in the past, it's brought me to a place mentally where I finally feel as though I can keep control over my life and therefore my eating. Since the beginning of the year I have sat down with my fiance, while he dines on a decadent homemade cheese pizza, and be perfectly satisfied with whole wheat pasta creations that I whip together in about fifteen minutes.
At some point it clicked with me that I was not happy with my overall physical fitness. I want to continually improve myself through martial arts and in order to do that I have to keep myself in good physical shape. Those jump kicks are hard for a fat girl!!!! In order to keep myself in good physical shape, I have to stop eating like a 600 pound man. I simply was overdoing it and I didn't need to.
Behind the light humor and friendliness, I have a fairly intense world view. I view life as a war. We all struggle and triumph and in many cases fight to move forward and make progress. Some things come easier to some than to others but Weight loss for me, just like fighting for rights at work, and just like training to defend yourself, is a war. The stakes are health and therefore the quality of a human life.
I am over and underwhelmed by images of flawless people everywhere I turn. growing up I struggled with various eating disorders. I've finally reached a place where I can feel comfortable with who I am, what I do and keep in perspective realistic the goals that I set for myself. So, here I am 8.5 pounds down in 2 weeks. I don't feel as though I am dieting, unless I'm in committee/caucus meetings where they lay out huge spreads of food, because I try to keep myself in control of where, when and how much I am eating.
Start weight: 166.8
Current weight: 158.4
Goal Weight: 140
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