Merry Christmas everyone!

I swear I have a good post coming! Its about my New Years Resolution, which is, for once, not to lose weight but still has so much to do with my overall health!

Stay tuned!

Can we give Oprah a break here?

I'll be the first one to say I *heart* Oprah. I want to go see her show. I read her magazine. I look up to her.

Oprah announced on her website the the main focus of the January issue of "O" is the fact that she has gone from weighing 160 to 200. She says in her article, "How did I let myself get like this?" And that she feels awful when she has to go to public events.

All I can say is that critisizing Oprah for her words all over the internet is not going to help her lose weight. I think we should be writing her letters of support, which I intend to do because I know how she feels. In the past year I have gone from 236 to 284 and now I'm at 269. How did I let this happen to *me*? Well for one I went off my diet and stayed off. 2nd I stopped exercising and got kimda lazy. Third I was depressed! And let me tell you what a downhill battle that became! But now I'm pissed off and ready to regain control of "me" just as Oprah has stated. And honestly sometimes losing weight involves you being real with yourself and possibly saying some not nice things.

This is not a matter of becomming skinny, but a matter of becomming healthy and feeling better about myself. So why don't we stop bitching and show her some love and support so she can achieve her goal too?

If you want to read the article go to http://www.oprah.com or wait till iy hits stands on Dec. 16th!

Me Recently

This is me on 12/4/08 just to give those who don't know what I look like a good idea :)

Workin' on mah fitness

Proof that I too, go to the gym. I honestly need to snap some new pics because I think I've toned up a bit since these. Not to mention lost some weight!

Muwhahaha

I've lost 16 lbs total! Woohoo! That means I only have 20lbs left to get down to 248 which is my 10% goal.

Now all I need to do is keep my tail in the gym and my face out of my beloved ice cream bowl!

Weigh In #2

Dear Lord. Once again I am nervous to boot. I went waaaay over my points this week, however I got them all back by exercising my tail off. But I'm scared, despite my efforts I may have still gained because of my prior screwups. I was 270 when I hopped on the scale this morning. Hopefully it will stay that way.

My stomach is in knots! Who wouldve thought a silly weigh-in would make me this anxious?!?

Only 20.5 more to go....it can't be that bad.....can it?

I seriously need to get in some more exercise somehow.

For those of you that don't know I have chronic patellar tendonitus in both knees and the Doc has decided he needs to operate on BOTH OF THEM. Needless to say walking, running, etc for too long or too fast hurts like hell, but I am determined to not let this get in my way too much. I went in the gym and walked on the treadmill at a low speed for 15 minutes them cycled for about 15 with very low resistance. I was proud of myself for getting my tail moving, but sad because I used to go in the gym and get on the elliptical and burn 350 calories in 45 minutes or less, unlike the 30 minutes I spent in there yesterday and only burned right over 100. Oh well, I guess I have to work with what I've got!