Never 320 Again

I HAVE MAINTAINED

You heard it right folks, I have maintained. I need to speak a little about healthy lifestyles before I reveal my weight though. It is important to realize that sometimes goals can get in the way of what is really healthy, what your body needs. Your mind is so caught up on the goal you want to reach that you forget what your body needs to survive. You forget the fact that there is such a thing as unhealthy weight loss.
Obesity is a problem, a huge problem and poses significant health risks. More people are Obese right now, today, than every before. Getting down to the ideal weight is healthy for you, it is a monumental task, a worthy goal, but the means by which you accomplish this goal is just as important as deciding to lose the weight. I have discussed changes in lifestyle before and how diets you buy off the internet, or diets that encourage eliminating entire food groups, or limiting yourself to only one food group are ineffective and simply a means of yoyo dieting. But, what if you do everything you are supposed to, monitor your calorie intake, exercise, eat healthy—and you’re dropping the pounds too quickly?
I dropped weight too quickly, especially in the last few months of my active dieting. I was working out at the gym, burning incredible amounts of calories—and I was not compensating for that in my dieting, I was still eating a low calorie diet. Some days, I would end the day with a nearly 2,000-calorie deficit. I knew this was wrong, but I loved the progress I was seeing on the scale.
This is not healthy weight loss, which contributes to the rise you will see on the scale. This rise was almost immediate after I began the maintenance portion of my LCJ (adopted from Tara). When I started eating normally, exercising normally just to live, I noticed a rise in my body weight up to 182lbs, I was able to maintain this, and just recently got down to 180.6lbs. I am proud of this, I maintained through the holidays, through the beginning of another semester, most importantly through the exams of last semester. I kick ass, and you know it!

I am starting a new portion of my life, the Life Changing Journey Check In. (LCJCI for short) I will check in 5 times throughout the semester, over the next 15 weeks and let you know how I am doing on the scale, I am going to post on the blog more often, and I am going to stay committed. I am not happy with myself right now, I am still overweight, I am still flabby, I still don’t have muscle. I am going to drop another 30 pounds, I am going to build muscle definition, I am going to be Happy!

January 2010- 320lbs
February 4, 2011- 180.6lbs