the vacation is over
So I just spent a month in Hawaii. I am originally from Oahu, and went home to help my sister celebrate her graduation from Kamehameha. This was a true vacation…something I haven’t had in a really long time. Usually when I go home, I join a gym and try to moderately watch what I eat…this was not the case. Both my best friend from Syracuse, and my boyfriend (at the time) came along with me. Instead of joining the gym I decided to play tourist guide.
So here I am a week later…back in Syracuse…afraid to get on the scale.
I know I have gained a little bit of weight…all in my stomach of course!!!
I’ve spent the past week just trying to decrease my appetite a bit. I went from a month of eating anything and everything I want…to be proposed to…to getting married in a year…to wanting to lose 60 pounds before my big day.
This past week I have done okay.
I have eaten mostly vegetables and not many sweets, but I know my stomach has definitely shrunk a bit…thank god!!!
And Yes…I just said I am getting married in a little over a year. The date has been set for August 08, 2009. That leaves me approximately a year to lose the weight I am aiming to lose.
So tomorrow I am starting on my hard core whatever I’m doing.
I’ve been through sooo many diets (which I’ll go over in my next blog)…and I’ve been trying to lose weight pretty much through the entirety of my life.
What I’ve decided to do is a combination of the book “eat to live” along with Alli. I’ve been a vegetarian before and I have lost weight without even trying. The alli capsule I think I will try for two months and see how much it supplements my eating healthy and working out.
I am also going to get on the scale tomorrow!!! I need somewhere to start. I used to be obsessed with the scale and numbers, but I will weigh myself once a week just to guide my efforts.
So my plan of action is:
1. Alli for two months
2. Eat to live lifestyle
3. Weigh once a week
4. Workout 4x a week…working up to 5 or 6 times a week
*crossing my fingers
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Congrats on the engagement!!!! Good look on the Alli, keep us updated on that, I always pass that in the stores thinking I want to try it, but have heard some stories. I think the wedding will keep you on track too, I know mine did and then 7 months later here I am 15 lbs heavier than my wedding day, ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Does that alli stuff really work? You can do this! And, or course, congratulations on getting engaged!!!!
Thank you for the congratulations. I think Alli has the potential to work…definitely. My house mate dropped fifty pounds pretty quickly using the stuff. She went from a size 14 to like a size 8. She looks amazing. I think it can work for some people. She ate terrible before she took Alli. She ate high fat, high sodium food and when she went on Alli it forced her to eat healthy because she didn’t want the side effects.
For someone who eats healthy already, I don’t know how much it would supplement weight loss…because it can only block fat you eat…and if you don’t eat it…well then what?
But it can be motivation I suppose.
I shall see how it works because I am planning on testing it out for about two months.
I will keep all posted.