Weighing In:
So I decided long ago that I didn't want a scale in my house. I used to have one but I would then step on it everyday, multiple times a day. I would see what I would weigh morning, noon, and night. I would see what I weighed after eating, peeing, and yes even pooing. I was obsessed! I needed to know when I weighed my least and stay at that point.
This would also discourage me in loosing weight. You see if you weigh yourself everyday, you’re not going to see results. You're just going to see the same weight everyday and only see little changes, if any. So needless to say, when I got discouraged, I'd give up. This would obviously make no point to me trying to change myself at all, because guess what...I WASN'T! I'd give up then start back a couple days later, give up and start back up a couple days later, and so on.
Finally I decided that it just wasn't healthy for me to have a scale in my house, so I got rid of it. I just was obsessing over my weight and making myself sicker then I already was. You see to me, when your living an unhealthy life on a regular basis it means that you are sick in some way. You're overweight or even obese, you don't get all the nutrients you need, your not exercising, not sleeping right, not eating right, I mean this list could go on for days. By having all of these unhealthy habits we make ourselves more susceptible to illnesses (colds, flu, bronchitis, pneumonia, etc.) and just plain crabbiness. Well, I was adding even more stress into the mix and would obsess over my weight and what I weighed now, how about now, and now. So it's gone, and gone for good.
So how am I weighing myself in every week? Lucky for me my work has a workout room in the basement and with it a scale. So every Thursday morning, before going up to my desk, I instead go down to the basement and face my weight.
Today I weighed in at 234 pounds. I lost 3 pounds since last week! I'm very proud of myself, especially because I didn't get any actual workouts in. YEAH FOR ME!! I walked out of there with a smile on my face.
Healthy Weight:
So what is a healthy weight for me? Well to me I believe that I need to be in the range of 140lbs and 170lbs. From the medical world, they believe that I should be anywhere from 135lbs and 169lbs. So I see myself in that range, just in the higher end of it.
See I've always been larger boned. I don't mean this in the way of people saying that they are large boned when they are trying to cover for being overweight. I actually mean it in the way it is said. Let me explain a little of my past:
When I was in elementry school I was diagnoised with scoliosis (a curve in the spine). In middle school, 6th grade, I had surgery to fix leg length discrepency. I had one leg that was a little over 2 inches longer then the other. To correct this meant that my back should also be corrected as well. In order to do this they drilled holes into the growth plates of my left leg, my longer leg, so my right leg would catch up. A few years later, after I had stopped growing, we were able to find out just how tall I would have been on my left side. They measured my 'wing span' also known as your arm span, and it was just over 5ft 10in. So that means that I would have been just over 5ft 10in on my left side and then 5ft 8in on my right (what it is now). After this the doctors said that my body was actually built to be 5ft 10in. So honestly, I am big boned! This is just the way my body is. Oh, and I still have a little bit of discrempency with my leg length, but much less than an inch!
So when I think of what I should weigh I think of what I last felt comfortable at and at the height I am now. That was back in High School, in 10th grade, I was right around 164lbs and I felt nearly comfortable. I felt like I could still loose a little bit of weight, but I didn't feel like I was unhealthy. So this is the neighborhood of weight that I have choosen, 164lbs, or there about.
Weight Loss Goals:
So I think that I need to set some goals here for weight loss:
Goal 1: Loose 30 lbs by my wedding anniversary. That means...be down to 204lbs by August 28th, 2010.
Goal 2: Loose 50 lbs by Thanksgiving. That means....be down to 184lbs by November 25th, 2010.
Goal 3: Loose 70 lbs by Logan's Birthday. That means...be down to 164lbs by February 15th, 2011.
So this means I have set an ultimate goal of loosing an average of 1.75 lbs each week until Logan's Birthday.
Until next week, try to live a healthy life...be sure not to weigh yourself too often and think about what YOU think is a healthy weight for you and your body type!
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