6 Month Update

Nov 19, 2009

I have been at a plateau for a while. It seems like i have been gaining and losing the same 2 lbs for the last 2 months. I got a fill on Sept. 29th of 1 cc, ans since then I have lost 3.5 lbs, which i lost as of Tuesday. So here it the dirty, I have been really against tracking my food the last two months. I felt like i was getting obsessive about it so took a break and focused on my running. So I ran the 5k in September and ran 2 more times and stopped for two weeks. Then I started training for a half marathon, and stopped tracking my food, and stopped losing. After much gripping and complaining to my friends and family and saying that I will not do I hate it, it is horrible, I bitched one more day and started tracking The second week on November. Oh my goodness, i was eating a lot of slider/sweets and the calories add up like crazy. i thought because i was having protein shakes every day, and eating yogurt in the morning I was doing well. Not the case. I had a really eye opening look at the crap i was choosing to eat and decided to cut it out all together. I have recommitted myself to tracking and clean eating. Incorporating fresh fruits and veggies has been a new and daily challenge. Do to the amount I work out, I am on a 1200 calorie diet. it is not too much food and I am eating the right things again. The scale moved for the first time in 3 weeks. i am in the 180s, 188.5 to be exact. It is great that I can finally find the correlation between eating right, tracking and exercise. I think I am finally putting it all together.

So I have not gotten up the nerve to try LA boxing yet. I am going to take a trial week a Bikram yoga. In all this I have continued to lose inches. I have lost a total of 30 inches since surgery and can fit a size 12 pants. Crazy! Running is awesome, but i need to mix it up a bit and have been going back and forth between getting a trainer, yoga, or kickboxing. I think boxing will do awesome things for me, but I need to really see if i want to commit the money to that. Yoga is to reshape my body. My frame is muscular, so I want to try and achieve a leaner look with yoga.

I think I cannot really complain because last year at this time I was think about having surgery, in two week, it will be the anniversary of my consultation, where i took the steps to be more healthier. Today i can say I am ten times more healthier than i was at this time last year. This is my measure of success.

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