My Attempts at Weight Loss
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, 01-20-2019 at 11:51 PM (2228 Views)
So I began really putting on weight as a senior in university and, at 5'4", hit 230 lbs when I was about 28 and starting out my career. The weight really just crept up on me over the years, and then, in 2013, I had the brilliant idea or epiphany, to go vegan. So I became a strict vegan for several years and was able to beat back thirty lbs and that was great. I started running again and even got under two hundred for awhile. Then I got sick and had to leave my job and move home.
As I recuperated, I started taking long walks through the neighborhood with the dog. Sometimes I would go for over two hours just walking and listening to the radio or my ipod. There are a ton of bike trails and hiking trails by my house and I was putting them to good use. I even bought a rode bike and began taking ten mile bike rides in addition to my walks and then, at a challenge from my roommate, decided to do little mini-triathalons and swim as well for an hour every day.
I loved the exercise but my weight wouldn't budge. This was before I was diagnosed with hypertension but I couldn't manage to get to a healthy weight even though I was working out like crazy! I think it is probably necessary to say that I wasn't dieting, (other than being vegan) and I wasn't counting calories. In Vegas, Spring, Fall and Winter you can exercise outdoors but summers you need a gym membership. Slowly I sort of had a set back and let myself get into a rut where I didn't exercise as much as before.
Sadly, as the years have progressed I have slowly put on more and more weight, albeit gradually. I do an hour or more of vinyasa yoga every morning and try to take as many hikes as possible but its just a little harder now. It gets a little harder with every extra pound.
So that's how I fell off the exercise wagon.