Weight management

I hate being overweight. Even more, I hate people who make me feel "comfortable" with my weight. I'm changing that starting now. I've thought back many times about what caused my weight gain and it all came down to overeating. I just simply eat too much and for a while was eating the wrong foods. I graduated high school about 5 years ago. 45 lbs in 5 years!!! That's ridiculous. There is no excuse for that. I don't have any kids or haven't had any traumatic stress...nothing. I just eat and eat and eat.

How did I gain the weight??
About 6 months after I graduated high school I quit my job. I just didn't want to work there anymore. I had money saved up and I didn't really need to be there so I got out. My plan was to just have fun for a month or two just hanging out with friends and having fun. Didn't happen. My last day of work was Dec. 26th. For a month straight I just sat on the couch watching tv and eating Christmas leftovers. I started eating out of boredom and eating just because it was available. I never left the house and it was cold out so I stayed in my pajamas and sweats. I slowly started noticing my breasts were slightly larger and that my stomach had grown a little. It didn't really hit me until I went to hang out with a friend one day and went to put on a pair of jeans and couln't get them up past my thighs. I freaked out and hopped on the scale. In one month I had gained 10 lbs! I got over the shock after a while and took the weight gain as an opportunity to go shopping for clothes. After all, I didn't really think 10 lbs was that big of a deal.

About a year later my at-the-time boyfriend and I went out to eat ALL THE TIME! Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, sometimes 2 out of the three each DAY. Gained another 15 lbs. He said I was fine, didn't need to change my body at all....so I didn't think into it too much. By the end of the relationship I was up yet another 10 lbs. (relationship lasted about 2 years)

Ever since then my weight has pretty much stayed...The scale will sometimes go up 5 lbs but then it goes back down again. My plan....have it continue to go down until I'm at a happy weight. I've tried many things over the past few years to try to lose the weight and they've all worked, I've worked out, I've watched portion control, I watched what I ate...they have ALL worked, but for some reason or another I've strayed away from each one, and I've never done any of the 3 together. Sounds silly right? Well, that's going to change. I don't believe in dieting. It really is about lifestyle changes. I eat fairly healthy, so I don't feel that I need to change that too much, However I would love to try new recipes.

My birthday is 12 1/2 weeks away. I feel today is a good day to discipline myself to achieve my weight loss goal. What is my goal? To LOSE weight. I'm not going to set myself a goal of 25 lbs or anything like that. All I simply want to do is LOSE weight. yes 25 lbs would be great...40 lbs would be even better...but I don't want to force a number on myself. I just want to be healthy and do it "naturally". And by naturally I mean, make lifestyle changes I can ACTUALLY STICK TO!! I HATE working out! So why should I force myself to spend time at the gym??

My plan? Portion control, Water, Vitamins, Stretching/Pilates. That's it. Plain and simple. Now I know I said I didn't want to have to workout and Pilates is a form of "working out" but I don't want to deal with the gym side of working out. I want to increase my flexibility and I've always been interested in doing pilates. There are so many benefits to pilates that it's hard not to try it. Pretty simple plan, and should be easy to follow even on a busy schedule. We'll see how it works out.