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This is a discussion on Here is where it starts... within the New Here? Welcome to Olicious Life! forums,----- Why is someone like me, here on this site? Because it started with.
A choice.
A decision.
A vision.
A ...
Why is someone like me, here on this site? Because it started with.
A choice.
A decision.
A vision.
A goal.
A Success Story.
hi thought I'd post my new here post. Although I have been here for a little while.
I am not a fit person, nor am I an athlete, I was never one of those people who did sports, lived an active lifestyle since childhood, other than just playing outside...that is the maximum amount of any kind of physical activity I did. Not that I didn't want to but I wasn't allowed to. I rode my bicycle to school and things like that but that's about it. I was never overweight until I hit my 30's.
I am here because I made [SIZE="3"]a choice [/SIZE]to be fat! Not intentionally, but life's circumstances, events, age, time, not seeing the pounds creep up over the years. My love for food...I am a YO-YO. Always dieting. Always trying the quick fix way. Always failing to keep the weight off. Always gaining more than I lost! Always beating myself up for being a FAILURE once again.
Until one day I made [SIZE="3"]a decision[/SIZE]to be "fit" by 40. (I don't know why women always do that to themselves. Be something by such and such a time....but we all do it)
I....was a fat overweight woman at 38 and I saw 191 on my scale. I was dumb founded and you won't believe it but I mentally thought to myself I wonder if I can get myself to 200...stupid eh? Who the hell in their right mind aims to be heavier? Then One day playing with my friends kids, they were climbing the monkey bars...it was only high enough that it wa maybe 6 inches higher than my finger tips if I reached for the bar...I couldn't even jump up to grab the bar...I was heavy and then if I did hit the bar, I couldn't grab on...let alone hang myself off that bar...I had an epiphany at that moment...I was going to be able to get myself to a stage in life when I could not only jump up on those monkey bars, grab hold and be able to lift myself up to do a chin up....I am still working on that goal. It will only take one chin up (unassisted) to let me know I have arrived...arrived at the "fit" stage in my life I so want to reach.
Here is a pic of me almost 200lbs!!!OMG! My boobs were the same size as a 3 year olds head!!!...LOL I am always amazed at how my eating habits affect my husbands weight as well...he was a porker too...LOL
So, at 39 I decided that I didn't want to be the average 40 year old. I had [SIZE="3"]a vision[/SIZE], it was actually a vision of Janet Jackson's body...but ultimately I wanted to be "FIT". I ran with a vision of Miss Jackson for almost a year...I lost 25 pounds by just doing cardio classes 3-4 times a week. Making good food choices. Not dieting. But eating unprocessed foods, because of my allergies to preservatives. (which I believe years and years of eating boxed and canned foods, and fast food have contributed to this problem)
This was the pic of Miss Jackson on my fridge for the first year!!!
I have been on this journey for a long time, since 2007, seriously exercising and eating right. It is not going to happen overnight. Sure I fell off the wagon, several times, but I didn't use that as an excuse this time to stop moving forward...I fell but I got right back up the next day, the next week...not necessarily the next meal...because like you I used that as a "oh well, might as well keep screwing up" excuse. We all do it! What was different this time, I always kept this pic on my fridge, I had to scan it to post it but it is up there to remind me of how fat I had gotten.
I now have [SIZE="3"]a goal[/SIZE] as a ways to push me further into my decision to be "fit"; not skinny, not sexy, not for any other reason than to be "physically fit"...I need a goal! So I chose to compete in a figure competition in March 2010.
I am still on this journey and will continue on until I "succeed".
So if you are like me...
I can tell you, don't be intimidated by all the buff muscles you see on here....they all were not born that way...they worked HARD for those muscles!!! As I have learned over the last year! Muscles are not so easy to grow. They need love and attention. They need nourishment and rest. And when you give your body the love, and respect it deserves....things start to happen.
I hope to one day post a pic of myself...in a figure posing suit. No you don't need to make a goal to be on a figure stage...you only need to make a choice, a decision...to be fit and healthy, and to love and respect your self worth enough to start your own journey.
Eva
(me, so far.... still alot of work to do)
Last edited by brownbikerbabe; 11-02-2009 at 04:35 PM.
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You have a lot to be proud of, and you're very, very motivated -- I bet your body will be rockin' as much as Janet's is, in just a few months. You're VERY close!!
As for this site, it was in no way created just for those of us who are already fit, but rather for anyone looking to improve her health and fitness -- regardless of how "out of shape" she may consider herself to currently be!
After all, all it takes is some determination, support, and the right information, and ANYTHING becomes possible (as demonstrated by YOU!).
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