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Paul is a soldier in the US ARMY, he's been in for 13 years and although he weighed 130 when we married he now is 37 lbs more than the heaviest the Army would like him to weigh, so every 6 months or so he struggles to drop 20 lbs in a very short time, so that even though that doesn't get him where he should be, he at least passes being taped. And then usually goes on to pass his PT test so the Army will leave him alone till next time. He uses all sorts of fad quick weight loss starvation diets and inch loss crazy ideas that only last a day, then he's back up. He blames my cooking (I'm flattered) I blame our sedentary lifestyle.
Paul's goal is to be fit enough to pass a PT test at any given moment, and to never be taped for being over the Army's weight standard for his height.

As for me, I have not been a healthy weigh for most of my adult life, despite being slender most of my youth. I also was 130 lbs when we married. I had 4 rough pregnancies, terrible morning sickness in the beginning. Bed rest for weeks on end towards the end of the first 2, and I just learned to be very careful with my 2nd two. Which meant lots of rest and sitting down. None of my pregnancies lasted past the 36th week, except my first one, we made it to the 37th. And then with every one, for about 6 months after I had thyroid issues. I guess I just figured that I was doomed to be heavy. I have done every low cost weight loss program known and although with a few I found some success it was only 10 - 15 lbs and usually came back sometimes quick, sometimes slow.
My goal is to reach my healthy range (as per health charts) and find a comfortable weight when I get there, I also want to learn to run again...maybe a marathon...maybe just 5k's every weekend....

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

VLCD 3 - 11 Aug 2010

Paul is pretty happy to be down 5.4 lbs in two days. I think it gave him some energy just seeing that he really is losing some weight.
I think all the HCG is out of my system now so I'll begin to take Chromium Picolinate today, a dietary supplement (I found at Walgreens). I took it for 3 days prior to starting the HCG. It is suppose to reduce hunger 25%, reduce caloric food intake 25%, reduce high fat cravings. Was recommended by my awesome sister-in-law Trisha. It's something that has helped her in the past, hopefully it will help me now. I also found a 8 week walk/run program, it starts out pretty slow on the running part so I think I'll follow it.
Since Paul has a few years left in the Army and we tend to do most things together (Like get fat and lazy together) I think that we both need to start exercising together military style. So my goal is to build up doing the exercises he has to do for PT and we can both work on improvement. Which means a two mile run, situps (crunches for me), and push ups. I found the walk run program to help with the run, and some friends (the Zaucha's) told us about a sit up/push up program that starts with your base even if that is 0 and helps you add some every week. So here I go.....i love to exercise, I Love To Exercise, I LOve TO EXercise, I LOVE TO EXERCISE!

Paul - 224.8
Jenn - 237.2
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  1. herkimer famAugust 11, 2010 at 7:37 AM

    yeah paul!! see if i had results like that, i could be totally motivated. i had acrap day yesterday. did not plan and was out all day. got home starving and ate everything. boo. too bad you're moving or that we didn't think of this sooner, i'd love to exercise with you. i do like to work out, it's just getting my butt off the couch. a friend of mine wants to take professinal pics this fall so i need to get my put in gear. please keep posting. it refuels me.
    good luck today!!

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