I have decided that I’m tired of being overweight. I’m tired of being achy all the time. I’m tired of being tired. I found the free online diet (lifestyle change really) website called SparkPeople and I’m going to give it a shot.
One of my Daily Fast Break Goals is to journal 1 time a day. So..guess what? You get to hear it. I will probably include it in other posts so as not to bore people to tears about how fat I am *whine whine whine*.
If you’d like to join me over there, feel free. It’s all free (from what I can tell so far) and looks to be pretty good. Even the exercises it’s given me (gasp..did I say the E word??) seem to be not so bad.
Ok..so my goals
Short term:
Drink 8 -8 oz glasses of water a day, go for a walk, and write in a journal
Longer term:
Lose 40 lbs by my birthday (9/16/07)
consume between 1200 and 1550 calories a day
burn 650 calories a day
Sounds reasonable eh?
In knitting news, I’m nearly 1/2 through the final border on the Flowing River shawl, I finished one Monkey sock and started the second one, I am 3 balls of yarn into a Tempting (from knitty) sweater for myself, and I’m 1/2 done with the foot of my stocking. I’ll see if I can get the camera to work and post some photos later this week.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Good for you Steph! I’m a member at spark people too. It’s a pretty cool site! The last couple of weeks I haven’t been using it but my plan is to get back to it this week. The meal planner/tracker thingy is great. I planned out all of my breakfast and lunches and saved them to favorites so I can just plug in what I age and go!
Good Luck!!
April 17th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
That’s great! Best of luck. Going over to check out the program now. I have several extra lbs since surgery. I am reluctant to go on a “diet” per se…have just been trying to get back to my usual exercise routine and eat healthy. So far that’s not doing much so maybe the online diet thingie would be a good next step.
April 18th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
I feel ya babe! Hubby and I are still doing weight watchers, he’s lost a little over 80lbs!!! I’m being lazy and cheating, and have stalled out at 35lbs….
I’m also starting a weight loss blog, I’ll send ya the link!
Love you!
April 22nd, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Inspiration comes at the oddest moment. After reading your blog, I figured why not, can’t hurt, right? So I joined, it looks great and I need something to keep me motivated. Having others to talk to always helps.