A day in the life of an Ohioan turned New Yorker
Published on October 14, 2005 By alison watkins In Misc
Some of you by now have heard my schpeil about weight. Now it's time to officially post it on the diet blog!

The chub gene is a heredity trait in my family. I have a large bone structure, and I am Irish Italian, so what do you expect? Definatley not skinny minnies. Growing up, I was always bigger in both height and weight than the other kids. When I was in the 7th grade, I started to run cross country and I lost all of my baby fat. My height also leveled off. From about 8-10th grade, I was 5`2 and 110 lbs. My junior year I was extremely busy and convinced myself that life was more important than eating so I began to basically starve myself. I was a ball of nervous energy. When I did eat, I hardly kept anything down. My weight went down to about 92 lbs. The summer before my senior year I fell in love and became happy and comfortable with myself. I began to gain some weight. At that point, that was a good thing. I leveled off at 125 lbs and stayed there for a long time. That's where I believe my ideal weight should be.

When I met Hardin, I became rather comfy with myself yet again. We gnoshed on cheese fries, ice cream, and pepperidge farm cakes just about every night. This took quite a toll on my weight. After 6 months of relationship bliss I had managed to put on about 30 lbs. I was up to about 160.

In the summer of 2001, I was in a terrible car wreck. When I saw the doctor for physical therapy, he suggested that I take ballet lessons to help my knees heel and loose about 30 lbs. That's when I realized I needed to do something. Hardin and I decided to go on the Atkins diet together.

The weight rolled off. I got down to about 115 in 9 months. The only problem was that I felt dizzy all the time. The doctor said I should stop dieting and pay more attention to getting sugar in my system. I was diagnosed with hypoglocemia. I then began to eat in moderation. A year ago I weighed right around 128.

Then Hardin and I got married.....

I was always so freaked out because all I heard was how people tend to put weight on when they get married. I began to really watch what I ate and I started to work out for the first time in years. I constantly ate because I was working out so much. At first I ate right, then I discovered NY pizza, gyros, indian food, and ice cream. Even though I watched what I ate most of the time, I now in hindsight realize that having pizza three times a week mixed in with a gyro and ice cream now and then probably is where it bit me in the ass.

I got on the scale yesterday and I am up to 137. I need to loose about 10 lbs to be considered as "healthy weight." My mom found this diet online called DASH. It sounds a lot like weight watchers. It deals with portions and servings. I have been on it for a week, and I just feel way healthier. I've been recording my food in a hard cover journal, but thanks to Tex, this makes it 10 times easier!

Comments
on Oct 14, 2005

I swear to gawd you and I are genetically related somehow.  We're the same height, and now we weigh about the same.

I don't like the size I am right now.  My ass jiggles.  Don't like that at all.  The only good thing about being this big is the boobs (I had to go on hormone therapy and now I've got DD's!!!).

I'm going to go google the DASH diet....

on Oct 15, 2005
I hear ya on the ass jiggles! my thighs are starting to as well! ahh!! DD's..I'm so jealous...hehe.
on Oct 15, 2005
My ass jiggles. Don't like that at all. The only good thing about being this big is the boobs


yeah...talk to me Dharma!