Hi - I'm Kris, a single mom to a wonderful 8 year old girl. I've been through alot of changes in the last few years from being laid off and finding a new job to graduating with my masters, getting divorced and quitting smoking. What was left for me to drastically change? Yeah - ME!

In January of 2006 I hit the highest weight I had ever been, not counting being pregnant, and I had to buy larger pants. I knew that this couldn't go on any more so I went in search of an online ...

Hi - I'm Kris, a single mom to a wonderful 8 year old girl. I've been through alot of changes in the last few years from being laid off and finding a new job to graduating with my masters, getting divorced and quitting smoking. What was left for me to drastically change? Yeah - ME!

In January of 2006 I hit the highest weight I had ever been, not counting being pregnant, and I had to buy larger pants. I knew that this couldn't go on any more so I went in search of an online food/calorie tracker and found SparkPeople.

After 9 months I had lost 30 pounds and was doing fine maintaining it. I had a physical and the blood work showed that I had lowered my cholesterol by 60 points. SIXTY! All through diet and exercise.

But then I got hit with a huge project at work and from June 2007 to December 2007 I gained back 15 pounds. Then I started back with my SP plan, lost 5 pounds and got smacked in February/March with more work than I could do and still workout like I was doing. I had to go in early and stay late, had to send my daughter to before and after school care - talk about the guilt! Then - after getting home from Disney World I BROKE MY ANKLE! There came the next 10 pounds putting me at 20 more (or more) than my lowest.

So I am back to knuckle down and get this all started again. Sparkpeople has really helped me define for me what a "healthy lifestyle" means and is helping me achieve it.

One cool thing that has come out of all of this is that I am now teaching group exercise classes at the local Y! I love Step Aerobics and teaching Strength Training. In 2007 I had had a goal to run a half marathon but that didn't happen. I hope to start training again in the spring when the weather gets better. For now it's the elliptical, treadmill and cycling along with my step and strength classes.

I still struggle with binge eating from time to time and anger that I don't get to eat whatever I want, whenever I want but that's all part of this journey isn't it?

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Jan 2009
I signed up and started the New You 2009 Bootcamp.

Starting weight is 150.

Goal is to lose 1 pound a week, burning 4000 calories a week and eating 1,520 - 1,870 calories a day. It worked before, I was able to lose on average 1.5 pounds a week with 1800 calories a day.

I CAN DO THIS!

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April 2009

It is now April and well, I wasn't able to stick with the Bootcamp, it just got to be too much to do that and my other workouts I already do. However, I have lost 10 pounds or so and kept it off for 2 months. I've been keeping up with the workouts well, just not the eating. Don't get me wrong - I eat pretty darn healthy - however I just eat more than I should if I want to lose weight. I know that I need to get back to tracking my food if I want to succeed with losing the last 10 pounds. Read my blog of 4/19/09 to see what I am thinking about doing which may affect my last 10 pounds :)

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