Okay, so maybe my symptoms aren’t quite as bad as that graphic…but that last sentence is most certainly true. I knew had I to start doing something when my own mother told me I look like I am gaining too much weight.
And she’s right.
Here are my real reasons for going on a diet.
10. My family and my friends have been calling me a ‘Chunky Monkey’.
9. I have gigantic cheeks on my face, and, on my ass. And, I can’t exactly pull off the ‘Pumpkin Head’ look very well.
8. When I am walking, I can feel my arm fat, and, my neck fat jiggling. WTF.
7. I can’t wear my rings anymore, because they cut off the circulation to my sausage link fingers.
6. I do not particularly enjoy having to wrestle and shimmy myself into my favorite pair of jeans. And after I finally mange to stuff my flabbiness into my pants, I still need to use a pair of pliers to zip them up. Uncool.
5. I am definitely in the beginning stages of growing a ‘Muffin Top’. And I don’t want to end up looking like one of those ‘People From Wal-Mart’.
4. My inner thighs have been rubbing together, causing such friction, that I could start a fire in my pants. The very pants it took 30 minutes to get on my body.
3. Even my shoes are beginning to feel a little tight. And that really can’t be good.
2. I seriously can’t use the excuse, “I’m bloated from PMS,” anymore.
1. I bent over inside the store, to pick up something I dropped. And I split my shorts, in half, AGAIN.
And there you have it people.
So, I started my diet, yesterday.
And I need your support.
All kidding aside, in the past six months I have gone up from 118 pounds to nearly 140 pounds. And I’m only 5’4. I don’t know what’s going on with my body, or how my metabolism has seemingly changed overnight. And I am REALLY unhappy/uncomfortable in my own skin.
Oh, just one last thing.
Please consider this fair warning: I am going to be moody, cranky, irritable, and miserable for the next 30 days. Many apologies, if you hear me having a nervous break-down on Facebook.
Thanks In Advance!
PS: Does anyone have any good dieting suggestions for me?
This coming from someone who has held an uphill battle with mass & volume for the past 36 years: the one and only thing that works best is just plain old exercise, that and keeping an eye at the numbers of what goes in the munching and and what gets converted from fuel to actual work 🙂
I wish I had the metabolism of my kid – the grunt can eat through anything, be a couch potato and keep a lean figure; I see someone eating a B&W cookie and I’m the one that gets the bad news.
This coming from someone who has held an uphill battle with mass & volume for the past 36 years: the one and only thing that works best is just plain old exercise, that and keeping an eye at the numbers of what goes in the munching and and what gets converted from fuel to actual work 🙂
I wish I had the metabolism of my kid – the grunt can eat through anything, be a couch potato and keep a lean figure; I see someone eating a B&W cookie and I’m the one that gets the bad news.
Walk five miles a day, 4 days a week. Don’t use a golfcart when you go golfing, walk the course. Say no to half price cheeseburgers at KHCC or what ever your club initials are lol. Eat no bread. yeah, I know. xoxo
Walk five miles a day, 4 days a week. Don’t use a golfcart when you go golfing, walk the course. Say no to half price cheeseburgers at KHCC or what ever your club initials are lol. Eat no bread. yeah, I know. xoxo
My metabolism has definitely changed within the past 6 months.
I can’t get away with what I used to. * sigh *
Looks like I’m going to have to exercise a lot more.
Okay. Okay. I know. But still! WAH!!!
While I find this hard to believe…you look great in your pictures…I am here to cheer you on. “go, go Meleah!!! I gave up dieting years ago, but I am resigned to eating healthy all the time. At my age, I don’t have metabolism left. So I exercise, exercise and exercise, eat lean protein and veggies, fruit and I do eat carbs but only versions of whole grain. It works for me. For every bad food their is a decent swap. A cheeseburger made with lean round, lowfat cheese on a whole wheat bun is still a cheeseburger in my world. I kind of miss the fries but I like being thin better than the fries I think.
Yes, it’s clearly time for me to start eating healthier.
But, I am sure going to miss my bacon cheddar cheeseburgers.
Thank you for the support, Cheryl!
xoxo
Not only am I there FOR you, I am there WITH you! I am determined to drop the 10 lbs that’s been hanging around my waist!! Time to get in shape! Only 2 suggestions for you: 1) eat right 2) exercise
Yeah, they suck, I know.
Almost forgot, Sandra’s posted some of her diet tips on her blog. And she mentioned she’ll be posting her exercise regimen too. I doubt I’ll ever be able to keep up with her, but you might wanna take a look, at least to get some ideas.
I understand and completely sympathize with your situation. It is a place I find myself most of the time now. I wrote something a few years ago that sums up how calories work and how to battle the bulge without extreme personal sacrifice. I also read somewhere that 400 calories is all the body can process at one time, and the excess is stored as fat. When adhering to these concepts, the weight does come off – slowly, which is the best way. 1-2 lbs. per week is good! Exercise helps, too!
http://www.roses2rainbows.com/2009/10/weight-loss-is-it-realistic.html
They do suck!
And I am REALLY going to miss KHCC burgers!
[sad face]
But I cannot stand my shape anymore.
I gotta start somewhere!
I’m glad you’re doing this WITH me!
It will be nice to know someone else is suffering!
Oh I can’t keep up with her either!
But, I did look at some of her diet tips.
Thanks, Linda! You rock.
Yes–Don’t.
Focus on wellness rather than weight loss. All the benefit, none of the self-loathing.
Also, none of the mild creepy feeling actual fat people like myself get from reading the sort of funny/hateful top ten lists like the one above, particularly when posted by a super hot lady who just feels a little uncomfortable in her body, which by most standards is average to perfect. 🙂
You’re welcome. Hope it helps. Off to exercise!
I am totally self-loathing these days.
I am not even kidding when I tell you that I have gained at least 25 pounds,
seemingly overnight.
And it’s driving me bat.shit.crazy.stone.cold.fuck.nuts.
Same here!
Eat real food. Start making everything from scratch and don’t touch any processed junk. That’s what I’ve been doing. I also started doing interval training. I haven’t joined a gym or anything. I just exercise at home. That’s a great website called BodyRock that has workouts on it several times a week. The woman who does the workouts is super muscley and her exercise routines are intense. When I first started I couldn’t complete any of the workouts and now I can.
Good luck with your weight loss.
A while back, I was feeling somewhat the same, I could “feel the extra few pounds I was carrying around, and just a little less energetic. I just cut back on the all too-convienent junk food and sodas I was consuming while at work, and started walkin, then running. More chicken, less MickyD’s, fewer sodas, more water. I had no real plan, just wanted to feel better. Then I picked up a Bowflex on Craigslist, and started using that, again, without any real plan. Some time later, a couple who we’re friends with, asked my wife if I “was feeling OK?”, they thought I’d lost a lot of weight. As it turned out, I’d dropped about twenty pounds. I’m now a little more than what I weighed in my 20s, and I feel a lot better. If it can happen by accident, you can surely do it with a plan, which I know you can do.
“shimmy” “start a fire in my pants” … ahhh, never mind.
I’d like to lose 20 pounds. I considered cutting off one of my legs.
Oh, dieting, I hate it and I no longer do it. I have come to terms with me but that being said I still ‘watch’ to a certain extent. I eat when I am hungry, I stop when I comfortably full. I watch portion size but I do eat what I like. Good Luck, do what is best for you and I understand being cranky in the beginning, it is always tough at first.
Oh, and I thought you looked adorable on Disco Night but you have to be comfortable in your own skin!
I shall avoid mentioning bacon,cheeseburgers, cherry cheesecake ,buffets etc. in your presence ..and sit quietly in the corner consuming all and more of the aforementioned..although for the life of me I have no idea how you could possibly improve on perfection..but support you I will…:)
Thank you!
Awesome! No more soda for me!
Let’s do it together!
Thanks, Lucy! I’m really uncomfortable in my own skin.
I definitely need to make some changes. And, I am REALLY cranky today!
Thanks, Robert! This is NOT going to be easy!
If I take off my left one, and you take off your right one and we always hang around together, we can be a truly kinky version of Siamese twins.
Damn metabolism. I joked about willingly putting on weight in my last post, but I haven’t been impressed in reality. Gotta do some mega yoga/sit ups/plank to reel in my huge gut.
Having seen pictures of you, I question the logic of your list. But having my own issues with jeans, muffin tops, and grazing thighs (despite what others may say), I promise to support you and allow for all appropriate FB crankiness. LOL!
Good luck, my friend.
🙂
Traci
Oh, lordy, Meleah, I feel your pain!!!! I looked at the pics of me that Elena took and I needed butter for those rolls I have!!!!!! lmao
I don’t remember what you are allowed to eat. If you can, eat lots of fresh raw veges (tis the season). They don’t have a lot of calories and they fill you up. If you can eat it, you can add hummus. I will definitely be supporting you from the Small Town.
“PS: Does anyone have any good dieting suggestions for me?”
No, because I have the opposite issue, I have to fight to keep weight ON. And you may think that’s better than losing weight but it isn’t. Especially now, during the summer. The heat just wipes me out, therefore I don’t eat as much. And if I do, it’s salads, fruit, light stuff. And TONS of water.
But hey, honestly, I think you look faaaaabulous judging from the photos you shared with us in few posts down.
X ya just the way you are, girl!
I know how you feel. I was thinking of changing my blog from Stubborn Fool to ’40 and Fat’, although I wouldn’t be surprised if that name was taken. I have some very simple rules to watch what I am eating, reduce bread and pasta intake, avoid deep fried foods and limit desserts. Oh yeah, and that exercise thing.
Oh man. Right there with you. Except I keep lying to my food tracking thingy.
You can do this Meleah 😀 Here’s a good diet tip, go out, but some chain and a few padlocks and chain up every bit of item in your place that houses food, it sure worked for me … LOL!
Wait – you look so fit & fab (and damn sexy if I may add) and you wanna lose weight? Is everything alright with this world?
Wait – you look so fit & fab (and damn sexy if I may add) and you wanna lose weight? Is everything alright with this world?
Wait – you look so fit & fab (and damn sexy if I may add) and you wanna lose weight? Is everything alright with this world?
Wait – you look so fit & fab (and damn sexy if I may add) and you wanna lose weight? Is everything alright with this world?
Wait – you look so fit & fab (and damn sexy if I may add) and you wanna lose weight? Is everything alright with this world?
Okay! Deal!
I’m having trouble fitting into ANY of my pants! UGH!
Thank you! Thank you for understanding!
I don’t know how I gained so much weight and so quickly?
I feel like I put this on OVER NIGHT!
And, I just wish I could LOSE it over night!
Sadly, that won’t happen.
I love you, Aunt Lynda!
xoxooxox
I love hummus. I can totally get down with that!
Aw! Thanks, Ron.
Can we trade metabolisms?
That damned exercise thing!
Ahahahahhahahahah!