Life After The Cruise

Well, back to normal life. A cruise is an incredible vacation, but when you come back, there are plenty of consequences to deal with. For example, I'm still getting dizzy spells and feeling the "boat" move under my feet. Another consequence is your eating habits have changed. Thanks to room service, 24-hour pizza, free fro-yo, and 6 buffet lines, not to mention breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner in the dining room, I am used to eating every 2-3 hours. So yesterday, we ate breakfast at 8:30 and right on cue, I was hungry at 11. I put off eating until 12 but wouldn't you know it, I was hungry again at 2:30... Again, I put off eating because I know that's the only way I'll remind my body WHEN it normally eats. I had supper around 9 (I was really busy after I got home). This morning, I'm feeling much more normal, I ate breakfast at my standard time (7:30-8ish) and have get to feel my tummy gurgle. Yey! The reason I bring this up is because I gained about 5 pounds last week on my cruise. Now, to a small girl, 5 pounds is the difference between clothes fitting or not. To a "puffy" girl, 5 pounds can easily get lost somewhere on my body and go unnoticed.

Unfortunately, it seems I've been letting those 5 lbs. get lost a lot in the last two years. Thanks to fitday recording my weight for me, I have been faced with the harsh fact that 2 years ago, I weighed 25 lbs. less. Before college I weighed 40 pounds less. That is an embarrassing thing to admit, that I've gained 40 pounds in 3.5 years. So, folks, I'm sick of it.

Let me take a moment to say this has nothing to do with body image. Thanks to a husband who thinks I'm the sexiest thing in the world, I have a better body image than I've ever had before. I FEEL great about how I look, but I know that I'm fooling myself. Gary took a video of me playing mini-golf this week and as I watched it I was embarrassed. I've always been told that I carry my weight well and part of that is that I wear clothing that fits me. However, in this video I was wearing jeans and a hoodie and I looked HUGE. I didn't like the way I moved like a fat person when I chased my ball, or the way my chin doubled when I looked down at the ball. I realized that everyone else knew I was a puffer except me. I'm the last person to acknowledge it. So, here I am acknowledging the facts.

My name is Emily Fields.
I am 5'9".
I weigh 210lbs.
My BMI is 30.73.
I am sick of my weight.
I will lose 40 pounds in the next 6 months. (By May 21st, 2012)


Don't lecture me about that being unhealthy. It's not. That is less than 2 lbs. a week, which is a perfectly acceptable rate. I'm going to achieve this goal by eating better and taking advantage of my free membership at the YWCA. I'll be posting my weekly meal plans on here too, so you can be confident that I'm not starving myself. And, I'm not going to send away to Mexico for a tapeworm, so calm down. I can count a dozen people I know personally who have last large amounts of weight lately simply because they changed their diet and began to exercise. You've just gotta be sick of it I guess!