Hey! My name is Catie Traugott. I am 22 years old and I have started a new journey in my life. I am starting this blog to keep to the true goal I have set in mind for my journey. My journey is weight loss with Weight Watchers.
This is not my first attempt at WW but I know now why I failed to stay on plan. I had this habit of only eating the pre-made food and not actually cooking at home. Also, my life as an assistant manager at a truck stop wasn't helping me. My schedule would change so drastically there was no way to keep up with all the required health checks. I wouldn't get enough sleep, eat right, or exercise the right way.
I am now a part time stay at home mom though. I no longer work at the truck stop but I do still work. My husband and I do property preservation/inspection for multiple mortgage servicing companies. We are at home more now than we were before. We do have to do a lot of driving and physical labor sometimes, but that is fine! This is going to help with my journey as well though.
I have set some goals for myself for this journey and I hope to reach them in the next year.
Goals:
1. Eat Healthier
This is a given when trying to change your lifestyle. My husband and I would eat fast food A LOT. Mostly because we are too lazy to cook at home.
2. Cook At Home More
As I said above we would eat out pretty much every day. The only time we would eat home cooked food was when we would go to his dad's on the weekend to attend church. My goal is to cook at least 3 times a week. I will share the recipes and photos of my creations and how we liked them.
3. Exercise More
This is also a given when you change your lifestyle. I would sit in front of the computer and play on Facebook or online games. I felt like I was ignore our three year old. In ways I was and still am. I want to exercise more so that I have the energy to play with her and to keep up with her. I also eventually want to run a 5k, half marathon or something along those lines. I want to start with exercising at least 3 times a week.
4. Lose the Weight
My family has always wanted me to lose weight for my sake. I know the reasoning behind it but I have always brushed it off. My grandmother had diabetes and I never thought it was something serious. That was until my step-mother learned she had diabetes. I have known for a couple years now that she has it and as I have said before this is not my first time attempting to lose weight on WW. I am going to make this my final and long last attempt for the memory of my grandmother, to make my family know that I am trying my best to avoid diabetes and such, and also to PROVE to myself that I am worth it and I can feel better about myself.
5. Get down to 180
This is my first overall goal. I know that at 180 my BMI will still show me as being Obese but that is better than being morbidly obese as I am now. Also my body has this weird thing that when I am a certain weight I wear a certain size. At 180, I wore size 18. At 200, I wore size 20, and so on and so on. I would like to be back at a size 18 instead of the size 24 (very tight I must add) that I am now.
This goal is also one of the only ones I want to put a full deadline on. My deadline is June 20, 2014, This will give me a year to get my weight as low as possible. If I fail to meet my deadline then I hope that I can only look back and see what good I have done in the year not that I didn't meet my goal/deadline.
I will try to do daily updates but I will have my weekly updates on my weigh in days. I am currently not going to do the WW meetings but I may after a couple months. I am very self conscious of myself and I have never liked group settings. My weigh in days will be Thursday and I will update either that day or the day after. I will also update at least once a week about the meals I have made in the previous week!
With all my love and God Bless you!
Catie T
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