All my life I've been overweight or obese, if you exclude 1st grade! I've never known what it is like to be an adult in the "normal" weight range. It's something that I've always carried around with me, and now, I feel like I've had enough. It needs to end. I turn 20 on June 15th, 2009 and want to go into my 20s healthier!

August 2009: I wrote the above in September 2008. I turned 20 June 15th, and DID it, I DID go into my 20s healthier. I have been running for almost a year and ...

All my life I've been overweight or obese, if you exclude 1st grade! I've never known what it is like to be an adult in the "normal" weight range. It's something that I've always carried around with me, and now, I feel like I've had enough. It needs to end. I turn 20 on June 15th, 2009 and want to go into my 20s healthier!

August 2009: I wrote the above in September 2008. I turned 20 June 15th, and DID it, I DID go into my 20s healthier. I have been running for almost a year and now can say with full confidence, assurance, and positive that I AM A RUNNER. It's something that I couldn't do without in my life. It calms me, I love it and it loves me. We're two peas in a pod, made for each other it feels like! :-)

January 2010: Now my goal is to go into my 21st year in the healthy weight range!!! I never knew what it was like to be an adult in the normal weight range... NOW I WILL!
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I'd lost weight before, simply by counting calories (I always did it healthily, never drastically) and working out, and managed to lose 45 pounds. Slowly, the weight crept back on and I was back to right where I was before.

Many attempts had followed, all failing. I even joined weight watchers for a year, and while I lost 10 pounds, that's all I managed to do on it, maintain that 10 pound loss. While I still considered it an accomplishment, I decided I didn't need to be paying 40 dollars a month for it.....

Sparkpeople works! The reason that I gained back all that weight is because I never got to the root of WHY I was fat. WHY I was overeating. WHY I used food as comfort. And a huge part of my journey this time around (the LAST time around) is dealing with my emotional eating and HEALING! I've done enough damage to my body and I am DONE. I love the feeling that comes from exercising. I love every bit of strength I gain. I went from doing modified pushups with my butt sticking out because I didn't have the strength to do real modified ones to being able to do REAL man pushups! (Now I want to master them and do the 100pushup challenge and then move to on the ball ones and one arm ones!) I went from not being able to run one minute to running a 10 mile race this past May! Look at what this body can do!!!

I realized that in order to succeed I have to love myself. I have to realize that I AM WORTH the time, energy, planning, ALL of it. Your body's all you've got!

On September 3rd, 2008 I started the Couch to 5K program and decided to not rush into demanding of myself a lot of weight to lose right away. I focused on changing my habits. For the first two weeks, I didn't use the nutrition or fitness tracker, I just made sure to get my vitamin, wrote down what I ate, and drank 4 liters of water every day. (By the end of the the two weeks I was doing all that steadily every day). Then I decided to come on SP and started tracking. The first month I lost 2 pounds, then gained it back ( which didn't worry me since I'd heard of some ppl gaining w/ c25k) but since October it's been all losses since! I don't get too focused on the number on the scale because I know that's just a set up for failure. 1 pound a week, I welcome it and celebrate it and focus on how I feel and changing my habits!!!!

Welcome and thanks for reading my page!

06/01/08 - Quit smoking!

09/03/08 - Started C25K!

09/15/08 - Started using SparkPeople!

11/17/08 - Graduated C25K!

01/08/09 - DONE GIRL OF THE DAY! What an honor thanks so much everyone!
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GOALS:

First 5k!! - November 23rd 2008 --*** DONE ***-- (39:24)
Second 5k!! - January 1st, 2009-- ***DONE*** --- (36:27)
Frosty 5 Mile - February 8th, 2009 -- ***DONE*** --- (01:00:42)
St. Paddy's Day 5K - March 15th, 2009 --***DONE***- (32:27)
Shamrock Shuffle 8K - March 29th, 2009 -- ***DONE*** (55:27)
Race That's Good for Life 5K - April 19th, 2009 -- ***DONE*** (31:01)
Soldier Field 10 Mile - May 23rd, 2009 -- ***DONE*** (02:03:05)
United Run for the Zoo 10K - June 7th, 2009 -- ***DONE*** (01:08:06)
Jim Gibbons Memorial 5K - June 18th, 2009 --***DONE*** (31:45)
Athens Classic Marathon 10K - November 8th, 2009 -- **DONE** (01:11:22)
Prague Half Marathon - March 27th 2010 [[REGISTERED]]
Rock N Roll Half Marathon - August 1st, 2010
Athens Classic Marathon - October 31st, 2010

Weight Goal

September 2007 - 257
SP START WEIGHT - September 2008 - 247
227 by January 1st, 2009 [[[MET - December 7th, 2008]]]
!!!!! NEW January 1st, 2009 Goal - 222 [[MET December 28th, 2008]]
214 (NOT OBESE!!) by February 1st, 2009[[MET February 8th, 2009]]
199 (ONEDERLAND!!!) by April 19th, 2009[[MET April 26th, 2009]]

85 KG (187 lb) by Jan 1, 2010

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"The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground."

"Fail to plan, plan to fail"

"A set back is a set up for a better come back"

"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain".

"There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something you accept NO EXCUSES ; ONLY RESULTS" - Ken Blanchard

"Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just NEVER give up" - Dean Karnazes

"Dead Last Finish is greater than Did Not Finish which greatly trumps Did Not Start."

"There is no I'm sorry. There is no I'm weak. There is no I can't" - Jillian Michaels

"It is very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit" - George Sheehan

"Sometimes life knocks you down, you gotta learn to live w/ it, laugh w/ it, get up and do it again" - Kurt Johnsen (VERIA Yoga Teacher)

"I'd rather have a whole class falling calmly than too afraid to try, to go for it, to practice" - Kurt Johnsen

"You're going to fall. It's not if, or when, but how." - Kurt Johnsen

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes" - Ghandi

"In running, it doesn't matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last, you can say: "I have finished". There is a lot of satisfaction in that" - Fred Lobow, NYC marathon co-founder

"It does not matter how slow you go as long as you do not stop" - Confucius

"Wherever you go, go w/ all your heart" - Confucius
"He is able who thinks he is able" - Siddharta Buddha

"A friend of mine always says there is a 50/50 chance of everything in life. You do it or you don't. You work out or you don't. You eat well or you don't. So don't get down on yourself" - LIMEYRUNNER

"You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face." - Gatorade

"The journey is the reward" - Chinese Proverb

"There are two options regarding commitment - you're either IN or you're OUT - there is no inbetween" - Pat Riley

"If you don't like where you are, then change!
You are not a tree!"
-Jim Rohn

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