I am having to start out only going like 10 minutes of the elliptical. I used to be able to do almost an hour but now over 10 minutes and I feel like I am about to die.
I am very out of shape and well, obese. I weighed myself Thursday for the first time in a long time and I was 281 lbs (I'm 5'5)!!! I was horrified, it's the heaviest I've ever been. I'm not going to lie and say I have no idea how this happened. I know exactly how it happened-I got lazy and didn't feel like watching what I eat, I love most of the foods that are really bad for you, and over the years have trained my body to want to eat if I'm bored, emotional, etc. I'm also a night owl and not only does that mean that I don't sleep enough, but I also get really hungry late at night and end up eating.
Luckily I do like to be active once I get up and make myself do it. The work gym just opened this past week and I went Thursday and Friday, and then went on a mile walk with Jack today and it felt great! My mom and I were doing WW and it was working but I got lazy and stopped doing it, but have started again.
Unfortunately my weight has done damage to my joints, and I have a "crunchy" knee, so I finally bit the bullet and bought myself a joint supplement.
I'm 30 and would at least like to have one child, and the doctor tells me at my current weight I am a "walking pregnancy complication," so it's pretty much now or never.....