A Penny For My Thoughts....: ~Thirty Down!~

So to start off; In December I decided to start eating right, working out.. Dieting, however you would like to refer to a much needed weight loss! I had family refer me to the My Alli plan. I was hesitant at first since it is a pill based diet, but I’m not good with diets at ALL, and I needed something that would work! Basically I’ve been “heafty” as long as I can remember. I was very active as a child but my eating habits were horrible, basically if I didn’t ever work out as a child I might have qualified for biggest looser at 18 for how much and how bad I have always ate! I’ve tried “diets” before, getting into the gym and working out yada yada yada but would never put a healthy eating habit in play so then I would work my butt of but see no happy result from my strenuous work so I’d quit. Once I got out of High School and didn’t do work outs to be part of a sports team, or credit in school, I just didn’t want to do it!!

Now I could sit here and blame my major weight gain on the baby, but in all reality that’s just not the case! It was me not working out, and not eating healthy at all. So in December I changed that all around, and basically did a 180 on my diet! I was working out really good for three months, but it has slowed down because of school, although the eating is still on tact.

Since December I’ve lost 30 pounds! My ideal goal was 30, though I want to shoot for another 10. That will put me at the lowest end of my “bracket”, and would be great! I’m at that point though where I really really need to do some workouts and learn how to “tone”, but I will get there someday! As of now I’m very excited for how far I’ve come on this. I never knew what counting calories and fat intake could do, it makes a HUGE difference. I also put a food scale in the kitchen so I weigh my meat at every meal and I never realized Brandon and I ate for a family of six! Didn’t think the chicken was 12oz, when it should only be eating 4!!!

I really wish I had taken some pictures from the beginning to the end. But I didn’t think of it. So here is a few pictures from when I left Hawaii, before the weight loss began, but honestly I think I weighed MORE in December when I started then when I lived in Hawaii! So just to compare a little! It’s hard to see it myself someday so it’s always nice to look back at photos!!