I feel very lucky to have my life. I have a great job, an awesome group of friends, I just recently bought a townhome that I am in love with, and I'm just generally a happy person. BUT. I feel like my weight is always something in my mind that is holding me back. I really went hard with the diet thing in January 2011, and I've been trying to stick with it since then. I've lost 42 pounds, but I feel like I've been in a place since July 2012 where I just can't get motivated again. I really, really want this and I need to just get it through my head that it's going to happen.
Of course I've tried losing weight before. Since about freshman year of undergrad I've been on and off a diet. I've tried Atkins, South Beach, Weight Watchers, Slim Fast....the only thing that really worked for me was calorie counting. I lost nearly 50 pounds during my junior year of undergrad in 2006 using Sparkpeople, but by December 2010, I'd gained all but 14 of those pounds back. In 2011 I lost a little over 30 pounds. Recently I keep setting goals for myself and not meeting them, and I'd just keep pushing them out, or I'd lose ten pounds and then quickly gain it back. I've been maintaining my weight loss for the most part, but I'm ready to go hard again.
The Plan: I'm entering everything I eat on Sparkpeople and am a member at 24 Hour Fitness where I use the elliptical and attend many of their classes (Bodypump is my favorite, for the record).
I live in Dallas, I'm 27 years old, and I'm an attorney.
Now...for the REAL stuff about me...
Things I like: brunches and happy hours, building blanket forts, Arrested Development, David Sedaris, Tombstone, holiday-themed romantic comedies (think Love Actually and The Holiday), scary movies, trying out new recipes and making them healthier, the smell of a new purse, Firefly, thunderstorms, football - both college and NFL, TV marathons, and 90s alternative rock.
Things I do not like: made up words like "synergy" or "agreeance," working out in front of other people, brussel sprouts, Tron, artificial nails, pumping gas, the Truvia commercials, soda, people who just sit there at sporting events and judge the people who DO cheer, constant cell phone use, incense, and people who use too many emoticons. ;)
When I'm not cooking my own food, I'm yelping: freshminted.yelp.com.
