Saturday, June 16, 2007

Wherein our heroine starts an online diet/exercise weblog

Other names were going to be "Lair of the Mutant", "Iron and Yarn", but I think this one is funnier and the most applicable.
Anyway - still sick, I'm not writing down what I eat today >=) but I'll be good and start tomorrow....no, really!

Anyway - pix for your joy and amusement:
Before: this is how I've always looked and pretty much how I picture myself. This is on vacation in CO a few years before moving back home. This is why it was so distressing to put on 40% of my bodyweight in 24 months (despite my best efforts) and turn into the Blob:

I was supposed to go to another wedding the week after this one and I canceled 2 hours before I got on the plane because I couldn't stand the thought of anyone taking my picture or looking at me.
Anyone who says "We all put on weight as we get older" or "Size 6 is tiny" or "You have a cute figure" or "You look fine" can go jump in a lake =). I still surprise myself when that fat chick in the reflective surface turns out to be me. That's not me. That's not going to be me. I probably won't end up looking like the first picture either, but I'm not going to be the fat bridesmaid ever again!

Current goals:
1. Be more goal oriented, ha! Goals are ok, embrace goals.
2. Finish 6th bear
3. Get below 130lb by
- 90% eating compliance
- 90% gym compliance (doing Alwyn Cosgrove's "Afterburn")
4. Get yellow belt
5. Wear size 4 pants
6. <20% bodyfat (i.e. no extraneous bulges, head back to normal size)

Future goals:
7. Pull my bodyweight on the olympic bar
8. Do a pullup
9. Knit something wearable for myself
10. Finish that Ph.D thing

1 comment:

Frogge said...

Geeef, Geeef, Geeeeeef the Brave and Wonderful!!!!!!!
Last time I wrote a food diet was in high-school for Health class, but I was anorexic then so it was pretty boring reading: Day One- 1 pork chop, 1 diet 7-Up; Day Two- 1 pork chop, 1 diet 7-Up; Day Three.... sigh.
Looking forward to some more interesting reading, and I'll send you Massimo's ragu recipie for the site and so you can try it and blog about it!!!!!
xoxoxoxxoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxo
Froogles