My Weight Loss and Gain History! What’s Yours?
April 9, 2009 — radiant girlI just lost 8 pounds!!! If you have read MY STORY page you’ll know that I GAINED between 50-55 lbs when I got pregnant over 3 years ago. I went from 125 to 175 in nine months and I had quite the journey these past 3 years learning about fitness and nutrition and what so far does and doesn’t work for me. Here’s my journey in detail…
After giving birth I remember my first task and workout was to relearn how to stand up from the floor with just my legs (no arm support) and holding a 9 lbs baby in my arms. It was quite the task!!! And I kept at it until I got it down…I mean up! haha! Then 6 weeks after the birth I began the crunches, leg lifts, eating right, etc. In one year and a few months time I lost around 30 pounds! Then, I hit the plateau and hired a personal trainer. Still no results. Then I was introduced to Luann. She was a personal trainer who also sold health foods (weight loss shakes, vitamins, etc.) and she had a deal that if I bought her products I would get free personal training…it sounded good to me and I jumped on board! I followed her program and I lost another 18 pounds!!! Then I became obsessive and extreme…I started (on my own…not my trainers counsel) counting calories and whenever I went out with my husband and friends I would feel sorry for myself. I couldn’t eat what they were eating (or so I told myself) and I didn’t like that it was being rubbed in my face! I was mean and negative and overly strict. I was not fun to be around. I didn’t even like to be around me when food was around. After about 1 year and a half I just gave it up…it was so hard and not worth it! That’s when I went to the opposite extreme. I began eating whatever, whenever and as much as I wanted, even if I DIDN’T REALLY WANT IT!!! Just to prove that I didn’t have to live the way I was previously. I only worked out a few times a month instead of 6 days a week. In just over a year I gained 15 lbs back! So, now we are at the present. I joined my relatives on a biggest loser type contest for 12 weeks and that’s how I lost the 8 pounds!!! 5.9% of my body weight! And guess how I did it? Of course I worked out AND I used Dr. Paul McKenna’s technique (see tags or fitness on right hand side) well, I didn’t do everything he teaches, just the basics. So, I ate what I wanted!!! I ate consciously most of the time and stopped when I was full most of the time. I didn’t even follow the program to the T and I still lost weight. Granted I didn’t lose as much in the same amount of time as last time. But, I got to enjoy myself. I wasn’t stressed and I didn’t feel guilt. Now that is how I want to live!!! Peaceful!
I just began another biggest loser type contest with my relatives and I plan to get a little more serious about using Paul McKenna’s techniques and I believe I will lose a lot more and faster this time. I plan to lose around 12 more pounds. I’m going for the gold!
Click on MY STORY page on the top or right hand column to read more about me and to see some before and after pictures of me.
If you want to share your success stories about:
*How and what you did to loss weight and your reason for losing the weight (Such as: want to be skinny, out of love, want energy, long life, etc)
*Your journey on self and body love and acceptance
*How you’ve found your voice of self expression and what that looks like for you
email your stories to nn.image@gmail.com titled MY SUCCESS STORY and you may be featured on my blog.
Dreams
March 24, 2009 — radiant girl
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney
“Voyage of Discovery”
March 2, 2009 — radiant girl
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Size 16 Pageant Finalist
February 19, 2009 — radiant girlOH MY!!! I love this girl! I guess this pageant was last year but I only just found out about it today. I stumbled acrossed it while searching for pictures for my last post and I just had to share it!
Her name is Chloe Marshall, she is size 16 and made it to Miss England finals last year. She became the first plus sized girl to make it!
I went to the official Miss England Pageant website and found her bio and this is what she said in it:
| I would love to be a top plus size model and support curvier women, i also want to help teenagers with their confidence and to love them selves in their own skin, i want to show then that they dont have to starve them selves to be beautiful, because they are beautifull no matter what size they are |
Miss England finals contestant Chloe Marshall
Chloe won Miss Surrey title and has been signed on to Models Plus agency.
Chloe speaks to Hello Magazine
She said: “It’s what I was born to do ? posing for the camera. And as I keep saying, I love my body.”People seem desperate to get me to say that I don’t, that deep down I’m not happy and would rather be thin, but the fact is I wouldn’t change myself at all.
“Do I have fat days? Of course, but what woman doesn’t!
Chloe told Hello: “I’m a size 16, I eat well, I exercise regularly ? I jog, swim, and work out with weights.
“What I am promoting is a healthy girl who looks after herself and doesn’t try to force her body to be something its not.”
“Everybody thinks you have to be a tall, slim blonde and I’m a curvy brunette,” she added.
“I want to show it is possible to be beautiful and not a standard size zero.”
Apparently, she has gotten accused of being a rolemodel for obesity and many people have been upset by her. I think it’s just silly! According to the above quote from her she works out and eats right and loves her “bigger” body…I don’t know whats wrong with that!
Chloe is beautiful and the example to all of us of how life can be… she may not be the “ideal” but she’s happy, ambitous, peaceful, productive and free. I think she looks great!!!
