10:01pm
This is the first time that I have actually tried to lose weight. I’m only 19, but I weigh 190 pounds (give or take a few). My family has a history of obesity, especially on my mom’s side and that’s where I got my body type from. I’ve always been a little chubby kid, but in high school I started to thin out once I started swimming competitively. I loved the way that I looked and felt then, but keeping that weight was the last thing on my mind after I stopped being on the team.
This is my second year in college and I am a Social Work major. One of the classes I’m taking is called Human Behavior in the Social Environment, and a project that we’re working on all semester is called the Micro Change Project. The point of the project is to pick something that we would like to change about ourselves (a micro system). In order to help someone else change, we must first change ourselves. The change I chose was weight loss. I would like to (no, scratch that…I WILL) lose 20 pounds before December 2nd.
I downloaded an app on my iPod called “Lose It”, which helps me to track the amount of calories I eat and also create a plan for how many calories I’m alloted per day based on my goal weight. This app also helps me track my exercise, and deducts it from the calories I’ve eaten and lets me know how many I have left for the day. I really like this app, but it’s really hard to find all of the foods that I eat and I honestly don’t think I’m very accurate on my guesses of the proportions I’m eating. At first I was excited because I was losing some weight, but then I would fluctuate 5 pounds in either direction and I would get disappointed and just want to eat whatever I wanted or sit on my ass all day.
I would like to get a better understanding of what’s REALLY good for me (and my waistline) and what kinds of exercises I can do to get results relatively quickly so I don’t lose my motivation. Like my mom always tells me, I have the patience of a gnat and I just want to see results…even if they’re just little ones! I also would like to learn what I can do to WANT to go out there and get exercise every day instead of a couple times a week going to the pool and then the other days of the week just sitting around not doing anything. This is going to be a very big challenge for me, but I hope that once I start seeing results on the scale and on my body I will be superextra motivated to keep losing after the first 20
Today: 3/4 package of chicken flavored ramen noodles
2 Handfulls of Sweet Hawaiian Onion kettle cooked potato chips
1 chicken quesidilla
-about 4oz. chicken breast w/ taco seasoning
-about 1/4 cup(maybe less) mozzarella cheese
-1 flour tortilla
Small chicken alfredo microwave snack (360 calories)
3/4 cup granola cereal
Weight-190lbs.
I’m still working on a plan for my weight loss…but in the meantime I think I’ll go to the pool tomorrow and swim 500 yards(with a reward of sitting in the hot tub after of course).
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