Intro Part Two

To carry on where I left off yesterday:

From the time I bought my wedding dress to the day I was actually married I did manage to lose a little bit of weight. I was down to 187 on my wedding day. Of course the way I went about it was totally wrong. I did the "3 day diet" and lost a couple of pounds and then a week later did it again. I don't know if you are familiar with the three day diet, but it's about 1,000 calories a day & you can lose up to 10 pounds on it. I did lose 2 pounds the first time & 3 pounds the second, but I think I knew I wouldn't keep it off. After the wedding came the honeymoon cruise, holidays etc. Of course, all the weight I had lost was put right back on.

Meanwhile, I had discovered this great site 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet. It was full of people who were struggling with their weight & quite a few that had been successful at losing it. I lurked in the forums reading all kinds of threads & taking in information. Finally, I found a tool that I thought could help me with my weight loss since I had no idea of where to begin. The Body Bugg.

I spent the money to purchase it & received a six month subscription to their website with purchase. This neat little gadget reads my movement, temperature and who knows what else & tells me how many calories I burn per day. Great! This should be a snap. Move more & eat less right? Well, so far it's been working. Not as quickly as I may hope, but it's working.

I received my BB January 9th & here it is May 16th & I'm down about 14 pounds. 14 pounds in 18 weeks! Not great numbers, but then again I'm not hugely restricting my calories.

I still belong to 3FC & joing all types of the challenges. I sometimes get jealous about the people who lose 2-3 pounds a week on regular basis. Well, pretty often, lol. But I really believe that previously when I "dieted" I would end up putting my body into starvation mode. Currently without exercise I burn roughly 2,000 calories per day, some days more, it usually depends on how much I sit on my butt at work. When I add exercise that bumps that number up to 2,400 ish. When I dieted I would usually keep my calories around 1,200. That's a 1,200 calorie or more deficit. Do that for a couple of days in a row = starvation mode, body freaks out & metabolism shuts down. Which is why I would always lose weight the first week of a diet & then gain or nothing the second, causing me to give up.

So, my plan to make this weight loss happen is aim for a deficit every day. A 500 calorie deficit per day = 1 pound per week. That's my goal, which is doable for me. Of course, I haven't quite achieved that, but I'm happy with my progress for the most part.

Well, enough for today. I am at work & should actually do some.