AndiR
11-08-2011, 02:33 AM
Hey Everyone,
Andi here, and I am posting to tell you a little about myself :)
I am a 34 year old single mum, who works fulltime, about 6 years ago I went down the path of weight loss surgery (gastric band) and through subsequent surgeries (it never seems to end) I have gone from 120kgs (264 lbs) to 66 kgs (145lbs). I have been as low as 56 kgs (123lbs) but as history would have it, your body doesn't like to starve at this weight and it eventually goes back up. I have put on muscle though, so I don't mind the 66 that I am at now, but of course I want to change my life and the way I live it.
Over the past year I have come A LONG way, I mostly have been eating cleanly, and was training with a trainer (which I have learnt, isn't always the right solution, as their advice seems to be wraught with misguidance and more abuse) I followed everything he said, and again he has me just spiraling along a metabolic disaster, not like I wasn't already doing enough damage to myself.
So for 6 years I have been consuming between 800-1000 calories a day. And I am quickly learning to achieve what I want to now, this simply isn't at all good enough.
I couldn't be happier I have found LBC, I already feel like I have found my new home and everything that everyone says is what I have been looking for, for the longest of times!
Erik has been nothing but supportive already, speaking the hard truths that I didn't want to hear (as in 2 steps back, one forward, I mean are you shitting me, i have faught for 6 frigging years to get to this, and now I have to put weight on - SHIT! ha ha ha) but I am ok with that, I want this to be for life, I want to get to a point where I look like the fit girl, and maybe oneday feel good enough to hop on a stage, I don't care if I never do at this point, but gee I certainly want to feel like I have the ability to do it once this sad body is in the right place.
I can't wait to get to know you all, and also read everything that everyone has done and achieved with LBC. You guys will no doubt be my sanity in my wait for my very own program, and hopefully in the months wait that I have, I can correct some of the damage I have sustained, by increasing my calories and keeping it clean.
I don't know what else to do, as all this type of fitness is very very new to me, I am great at the starvation and getting "skinny" diet, but I don't want to be "skinny" I want this bitch to be FIT!!
In the meantime I need something to follow, so I thought that I would follow the LIVEfit program, but just do phase one and phase two (leaving the carb cycling out, until Erik deems me ready to get to that) if anyone has any opinions on this please help me, I want to do the right thing until I can get my program sorted, so it would be nice to hear peoples thoughts.
Thanks for reading and I can't wait to read all your stories
xxxxx
Andi
Andi here, and I am posting to tell you a little about myself :)
I am a 34 year old single mum, who works fulltime, about 6 years ago I went down the path of weight loss surgery (gastric band) and through subsequent surgeries (it never seems to end) I have gone from 120kgs (264 lbs) to 66 kgs (145lbs). I have been as low as 56 kgs (123lbs) but as history would have it, your body doesn't like to starve at this weight and it eventually goes back up. I have put on muscle though, so I don't mind the 66 that I am at now, but of course I want to change my life and the way I live it.
Over the past year I have come A LONG way, I mostly have been eating cleanly, and was training with a trainer (which I have learnt, isn't always the right solution, as their advice seems to be wraught with misguidance and more abuse) I followed everything he said, and again he has me just spiraling along a metabolic disaster, not like I wasn't already doing enough damage to myself.
So for 6 years I have been consuming between 800-1000 calories a day. And I am quickly learning to achieve what I want to now, this simply isn't at all good enough.
I couldn't be happier I have found LBC, I already feel like I have found my new home and everything that everyone says is what I have been looking for, for the longest of times!
Erik has been nothing but supportive already, speaking the hard truths that I didn't want to hear (as in 2 steps back, one forward, I mean are you shitting me, i have faught for 6 frigging years to get to this, and now I have to put weight on - SHIT! ha ha ha) but I am ok with that, I want this to be for life, I want to get to a point where I look like the fit girl, and maybe oneday feel good enough to hop on a stage, I don't care if I never do at this point, but gee I certainly want to feel like I have the ability to do it once this sad body is in the right place.
I can't wait to get to know you all, and also read everything that everyone has done and achieved with LBC. You guys will no doubt be my sanity in my wait for my very own program, and hopefully in the months wait that I have, I can correct some of the damage I have sustained, by increasing my calories and keeping it clean.
I don't know what else to do, as all this type of fitness is very very new to me, I am great at the starvation and getting "skinny" diet, but I don't want to be "skinny" I want this bitch to be FIT!!
In the meantime I need something to follow, so I thought that I would follow the LIVEfit program, but just do phase one and phase two (leaving the carb cycling out, until Erik deems me ready to get to that) if anyone has any opinions on this please help me, I want to do the right thing until I can get my program sorted, so it would be nice to hear peoples thoughts.
Thanks for reading and I can't wait to read all your stories
xxxxx
Andi