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Hiking in the mountains is hard work.
Cooling off in a mountain lake.
Sleep well in the mountain lodge.
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BLC21 has ended ... but I'm signing on for BLC22. So between now and June I'll be hanging out with the other Azuritas. Oh, and I'm also going to participate in the Violet Venuses' Mountain Spa team during the break. Gotta keep the motivation and accountability in place!
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In "real life", I'm an introverted 50-something brainiac who loves to read, do family history research, and travel. I have a full-time job, but I'm counting down ...
BLC21 has ended ... but I'm signing on for BLC22. So between now and June I'll be hanging out with the other Azuritas. Oh, and I'm also going to participate in the Violet Venuses' Mountain Spa team during the break. Gotta keep the motivation and accountability in place!
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In "real life", I'm an introverted 50-something brainiac who loves to read, do family history research, and travel. I have a full-time job, but I'm counting down the years to 2018 when I hope to retire.
Here's the back story ...
I wasn't heavy as a child or teenager. I didn't start to put weight on until college, where I discovered alcohol and the joys of unlimited starchy carbs in the college cafeteria. Oh, and late night runs to Sonic for "study breaks" with my friends. By the time I graduated, I had gained about 40 pounds.
I decided to go to Weight Watchers, and that was the start of my yo-yoing up the scale over the next 15 years. I tried just about every name-brand diet program over the years. I would lose some of the weight, rebel against the rules of the diet-du-jour, and then regain the weight along with another 10-20 pounds. Did that enough times to end up at about 265 pounds.
I finally threw in the towel and quit dieting altogether about 12 years ago after I read the books "Overcoming Overeating" and "When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies". And, wouldn't you know it? By quitting dieting, I was able to stop the diet-binge cycle and my weight started to go down gradually until it stabilized around the 225 mark.
Along the way I started exercising (walking mostly) and I was really quite healthy, but my weight never seemed to be able to budge much below 220. In 2009, I decided to start working with a personal trainer. I worked with him for about 3 years, focusing mainly on strength, cardio, and flexibility. (I was still pretty skittish about focusing on weight loss.) This past summer (2012), I decided to start saving more money for retirement, so I let my trainer go and continued working out at the Y.
I was doing pretty well maintaining a good cardio & strength program. My employer started offering a one-hour hatha yoga class once a week, so I signed up for it. After the third session, I noticed a bit of weakness in my left knee. I didn't worry about it, and went to the gym for my normal strength-training workout the next day. Well, I must have used too much weight for that knee because the next day I woke up and I could barely put any weight on it.
It took me over 3 months to regain the strength in that knee. During those three months, I regained just over 20 pounds. Sigh.
And that's how I found my way to SparkPeople! And I'm so very glad I did! I'm ready to get my good fitness habits back in place, and I'm also ready to start focusing on my diet again. The big change, though, is that I'm not trying to adapt myself to some program or plan's rules. I'm working to find my OWN best diet ... something that satisfies me AND allows me to shed the excess weight.
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Member Since: 11/27/2012
SparkPoints: 18,228
Fitness Minutes: 2,953
My Goals:
Long-term Goal:
*Weigh between 140 and 150 lbs. by January 31, 2014.
Mid-term Goals:
*Weigh below 240 by the end of BLC21 - Not quite there, but headed in the right direction.
*Have my closets cleaned out & organized by the end of BLC21 - Oops! I forgot about this one.
*Keep a perfect 12-Week Streak of exercising a minimum of 20 min/day 5 days/week. - GOAL MET!
My Program:
Food - I aim for the lower-end of the carb range and the higher-end of the protein range, and I keep my calories within the SP-recommended range.
Fitness - Mostly walking with a couple of strength training sessions per week.
Other Information:
*Human-mom to two fur-babies - Ethel & Lucy, the Wonder Cats
*Proud aunt to two great nephews
*Avid genealogist
*Lover of good romance novels
*Anglophile
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