Hello blogging world!
My name is Tammy George. I just turned 44 years old on Feb. 7th. Age is just a number to me. Some days I feel older than others.
I have spent over half of my life over weight.
When me and my twin sister, Amy was born I was 3 pounds and 3 ounces. Sadly, my sister passed away 16 hours after we were born. With being a preemie, I was was on the small size for my age until I was 5 years old.
I was a tomboy growing up.I grew up on a farm with lots of animals, Yep that means chores. I went hunting and fishing in the woods and lake behind our house. I played 2 seasons of rocket football. Then I discovered softball. I wish I would of stayed with sports in school. But I thought my then boyfriend was more important.
When I was 19 years old, I got pregnant with my daughter, Brittany. When I was 7 months pregnant and a weight gain of 40 pounds I was in a car accident. As a result of my injuries, Brittany was delivered stillborn.
I ended up with a crushed pelvis. I ate to numb my feeling. I was not getting any form of exercise in unless you count dragging my ass from wheelchair to bed, bathroom and other forms of sitting. I was told non weight bearing for 3 months. I got my weight up in the 230s.
Physical therapy (hell) got me down in the 190s. I joined a gym. I got down in the 160s.
With my pregnancies, I added more weight that was healthy and not losing much weight in between them. With my Zachary, it was 44 pounds. With James, it was 76 pounds. I was put on steroids at 23 weeks because of low amino fluid. With Brooklynne, it was 15 pounds. I did not know my weight before having her. I never looked at the OB appointments. I could of found out because of my pelvic injuries all of my babies had to be born by c-section and they take your weight before going into the operating room.
In January of 2013 I went into a gym near my home. Let me tell you....huge shock factor. A lot of body builders and fitness competitors. I felt so out of place walking around there. There was a women's only area in the back part of the gym.
The co-owner of the gym asked my why I was fat. I started to list off my car accident, all of my operations and my pregnancies. But halfway through it I said "Those all all excuses. The fact is I stuff my face with all the wrong foods and I sit on my ass to much."
Two days later, I stepped on the scale at 312 pounds. I was measured. The 64 inch tape could not go around my hips to take that measurement. My right thigh was 25 inches.
I stayed in the back part of the gym in the women's only area. The first few months it was just half ass exercising and not changing my eating habits. Well I did change my 2 liter of soda pop a day to none. I knew that I had to give that up cold turkey. Coca cola is like Jay's potato chips to me. "I can't stop at just one."
Then I decided to give a trainer a try. The best thing I ever did. I got down to 244 pounds by July.
I wish I could say that I stayed with it. My trainer quit without so much of a word. My mind set was he quit on you. You are going to quit. So I did just that. I was still going to the gym. but I let the food monster back in. I got back up to 272 pounds.
A few weeks ago my husband had his MDOT exam. Now besides being on a C Pac for his sleep apnea and taking blood pressure pills, he is taking blood sugar medicine and checking his blood sugar daily. I started to lecture him on how he needed to change his lifestyle or he would not be here seeing his grand kids or maybe not even seeing his kids get married. Talk about being a being a hypocrite. I wish I could say my husband was on the healthy lifestyle train. But I think he is still sitting at the train station.
I have gotten my ass back to the gym. I started with a trainer again. I started meal prep. I still need to get back into the right mind set and tackle just not my weight, but several areas in my life.
Emotional eating- Does it help make me feel better? Nope, besides feeling sick after eating all of that crap, I have a different emotion....guilt!
Mind over matter-Going into the Warrior Dash last year, I had a huge fear of heights. I did have a fear freezing moment high up on the peak of this obstacle called Diesel Dome. It wasn't even the highest obstacle. It was just looking down as you are going over it. I sat there on the peak for a few minutes with tears down my face as I was letting my mind tell me I could not do it. My oldest son, Zack helped talked me through my fear. Several other competitors where cheering me on. "You get this in you." Don't let your mind win." As I touched the ground at the bottom of it, I had different tears running down my face. Tears of happiness. OMG...I was very happy to feel that ground under my feet. But I was so proud of myself. In August, we are going to be doing that Warrior Dash again. https://www.warriordash.com/locations/
Time for myself- A happy wife and happy mom make a happy house.I need to realize that making time for myself is not selfish. I feel so much better after getting a workout in. Just half of a hour warm soak in the tub is smoothing. Especially when you are sore from working out. I have tried a cold water soak after working out. I made it 4 minutes and 26 seconds. BRRR! Not so smoothing.
Stress-You can't control everything. I need to stop stressing over stuff I have no control over. Also what is done is done. It is a waste of time to reply something over and over again in your head and how you would of changed it differently. You can't learn for it and let it go.
There is 2 things that I'm going to work on exercise wise. One: restarting the couch to 5K program. I got week five day one of the couch to 5K program. Yesterday at the gym I was able to do interval jogging at a comfy 45 seconds. Two: Circuit training. I love working out with weights. I prefer them over cardio. But I have to do both. So circuit training it is.
There is also 2 things food wise that I'm going to work on. One: getting my daily gallon of water in. Two: logging my food. I use a great food logging site My fitnesspal. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/
That is some about me in a nutshell, (I do love me some almonds) I'm planning on blogging about everything and anything in my fit quest. So come join me and follow along.
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I ended up with a crushed pelvis. I ate to numb my feeling. I was not getting any form of exercise in unless you count dragging my ass from wheelchair to bed, bathroom and other forms of sitting. I was told non weight bearing for 3 months. I got my weight up in the 230s.
Physical therapy (hell) got me down in the 190s. I joined a gym. I got down in the 160s.
With my pregnancies, I added more weight that was healthy and not losing much weight in between them. With my Zachary, it was 44 pounds. With James, it was 76 pounds. I was put on steroids at 23 weeks because of low amino fluid. With Brooklynne, it was 15 pounds. I did not know my weight before having her. I never looked at the OB appointments. I could of found out because of my pelvic injuries all of my babies had to be born by c-section and they take your weight before going into the operating room.
In January of 2013 I went into a gym near my home. Let me tell you....huge shock factor. A lot of body builders and fitness competitors. I felt so out of place walking around there. There was a women's only area in the back part of the gym.
The co-owner of the gym asked my why I was fat. I started to list off my car accident, all of my operations and my pregnancies. But halfway through it I said "Those all all excuses. The fact is I stuff my face with all the wrong foods and I sit on my ass to much."
Two days later, I stepped on the scale at 312 pounds. I was measured. The 64 inch tape could not go around my hips to take that measurement. My right thigh was 25 inches.
I stayed in the back part of the gym in the women's only area. The first few months it was just half ass exercising and not changing my eating habits. Well I did change my 2 liter of soda pop a day to none. I knew that I had to give that up cold turkey. Coca cola is like Jay's potato chips to me. "I can't stop at just one."
Then I decided to give a trainer a try. The best thing I ever did. I got down to 244 pounds by July.
I wish I could say that I stayed with it. My trainer quit without so much of a word. My mind set was he quit on you. You are going to quit. So I did just that. I was still going to the gym. but I let the food monster back in. I got back up to 272 pounds.
A few weeks ago my husband had his MDOT exam. Now besides being on a C Pac for his sleep apnea and taking blood pressure pills, he is taking blood sugar medicine and checking his blood sugar daily. I started to lecture him on how he needed to change his lifestyle or he would not be here seeing his grand kids or maybe not even seeing his kids get married. Talk about being a being a hypocrite. I wish I could say my husband was on the healthy lifestyle train. But I think he is still sitting at the train station.
I have gotten my ass back to the gym. I started with a trainer again. I started meal prep. I still need to get back into the right mind set and tackle just not my weight, but several areas in my life.
Emotional eating- Does it help make me feel better? Nope, besides feeling sick after eating all of that crap, I have a different emotion....guilt!
Mind over matter-Going into the Warrior Dash last year, I had a huge fear of heights. I did have a fear freezing moment high up on the peak of this obstacle called Diesel Dome. It wasn't even the highest obstacle. It was just looking down as you are going over it. I sat there on the peak for a few minutes with tears down my face as I was letting my mind tell me I could not do it. My oldest son, Zack helped talked me through my fear. Several other competitors where cheering me on. "You get this in you." Don't let your mind win." As I touched the ground at the bottom of it, I had different tears running down my face. Tears of happiness. OMG...I was very happy to feel that ground under my feet. But I was so proud of myself. In August, we are going to be doing that Warrior Dash again. https://www.warriordash.com/locations/
Time for myself- A happy wife and happy mom make a happy house.I need to realize that making time for myself is not selfish. I feel so much better after getting a workout in. Just half of a hour warm soak in the tub is smoothing. Especially when you are sore from working out. I have tried a cold water soak after working out. I made it 4 minutes and 26 seconds. BRRR! Not so smoothing.
Stress-You can't control everything. I need to stop stressing over stuff I have no control over. Also what is done is done. It is a waste of time to reply something over and over again in your head and how you would of changed it differently. You can't learn for it and let it go.
There is 2 things that I'm going to work on exercise wise. One: restarting the couch to 5K program. I got week five day one of the couch to 5K program. Yesterday at the gym I was able to do interval jogging at a comfy 45 seconds. Two: Circuit training. I love working out with weights. I prefer them over cardio. But I have to do both. So circuit training it is.
There is also 2 things food wise that I'm going to work on. One: getting my daily gallon of water in. Two: logging my food. I use a great food logging site My fitnesspal. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/
That is some about me in a nutshell, (I do love me some almonds) I'm planning on blogging about everything and anything in my fit quest. So come join me and follow along.
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