MadamMeow
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Central NJ
Posts: 677
from
Central NJ
Posts: 677
"I see my vision burn, I feel my memories fade with time, but Im too young to worry..."
Hello bees! Finally making my own check in thread. 
I am MadamMeow. I am 42, married, no kids. I have been doing office work for my career.
I am a n00b to your kind forum, but I've been using this site for at least 6 months now. Probably longer.
I had a gymnastics background in my youth. Loved bike riding and swimming. So even though I always also was a Nintendo loving gamer girl, I was always fairly active as well.
I was always thin with no real effort until I was 28 and I met my now husband. He's a big guy and he likes to eat. I was my heaviest when I was around 35-38. Was not eating crazy and just kind of accepted that's what I became.
Once I got a my first fit bit and tried logging food, did I see that I have a LOT less calories to work with than tall people and that I had to accept I was getting old enough where you can no longer eat like a teenager.
Then in early 2022 I had a health issue I thought might have been my gallbladder. Went to the hospital and was not really helped, but thankfully ok.
Long story short, I sent my reports to my dad who had gb issues so he could look at my results. The one main thing he noticed right away was that I weighed 5 lbs. more than him. (He's 5ft 9inches tall and fit. I should be no where near him). He made me feel bad about it, not being mean, but still.
So that happened and then a few months later, had some corporate changes at work that made me not want to be there. My mentor got gas lit really bad. So another part of me wanted to start working on myself figuring I will inevitably need to go get a new job and meet new people, etc.
But the final straw was when I went out for dinner with coworkers. When I would get home, I would text my husband who worked nights at that time a pic of me all drunk once I got home. I would make a weird face and he would still tell me I'm beautiful and it was a funny bit we always did.
Except one day I texted my coworkers in the group chat thinking it was my husband and I was mortified! I was drunk so it took me awhile to notice.
The picture was so horrible I wanted to crawl into a hole and die. I deleted it from my own phone, I only hope they did too (they are nice people at least).
So not long after, I had a new fit bit (took a break for a few years other than sleeping cause it made a sore on my arm). Started by jogging every hour to 300 to get the 9 hours active reward. I didn't care if I got fired so I did it in a corner at work. Never got in trouble surprisingly.
Before this I had already given up eating free food at work. That helped me lose my first 10 lbs. with no effort.
The jogging and logging everything I did eat helped me get myself in line and lose another 10.
Then my google feed randomly put a DareBee desk workout pdf pic in my articles to read. Pretty sure that's what it was, otherwise that was a different site and DB was an ab workout. I saved it in an open tab for awhile, but that is what got me to the site once I finally checked it out.
After I lost the first 20 lbs jogging, I felt great and knew I could now do other jumping around type exercises without worrying about hurting my joints.
Was definitely not easy at first. Even easy things kicked my behind, but every time I get through it I feel great. I do it before work and after a particularly intense session, I love feeling cut all day.
First it was doing just the exercise of the day. Then that with the workout circuit of the day. Then that with the monthly challenges added. Now with that this month the FIT also added to it.
It's perfect. I love the pdfs, I can quick look at the card, be mindful of what's next, and keep track of the sets, times and counts.
Right now I am 30 lbs lighter than this time last year, 40 lbs lighter than when I started and 60 lbs lighter than my worst. I am never going back.
I finally look like me again. I can recognize myself against a picture of me in my teens. I have pants that my hips barely keep up anymore, so also having fun getting new clothes and replacing the too big stuff out. Slowly but surely.
So an extra big thank you to everyone who runs the site. It has helped me so much and has become one of the favorite parts of my day. Well, at least for Monday-Friday anyway...I rest on the weekends.
I am MadamMeow. I am 42, married, no kids. I have been doing office work for my career.
I am a n00b to your kind forum, but I've been using this site for at least 6 months now. Probably longer.
I had a gymnastics background in my youth. Loved bike riding and swimming. So even though I always also was a Nintendo loving gamer girl, I was always fairly active as well.
I was always thin with no real effort until I was 28 and I met my now husband. He's a big guy and he likes to eat. I was my heaviest when I was around 35-38. Was not eating crazy and just kind of accepted that's what I became.
Once I got a my first fit bit and tried logging food, did I see that I have a LOT less calories to work with than tall people and that I had to accept I was getting old enough where you can no longer eat like a teenager.
Then in early 2022 I had a health issue I thought might have been my gallbladder. Went to the hospital and was not really helped, but thankfully ok.
Long story short, I sent my reports to my dad who had gb issues so he could look at my results. The one main thing he noticed right away was that I weighed 5 lbs. more than him. (He's 5ft 9inches tall and fit. I should be no where near him). He made me feel bad about it, not being mean, but still.
So that happened and then a few months later, had some corporate changes at work that made me not want to be there. My mentor got gas lit really bad. So another part of me wanted to start working on myself figuring I will inevitably need to go get a new job and meet new people, etc.
But the final straw was when I went out for dinner with coworkers. When I would get home, I would text my husband who worked nights at that time a pic of me all drunk once I got home. I would make a weird face and he would still tell me I'm beautiful and it was a funny bit we always did.
Except one day I texted my coworkers in the group chat thinking it was my husband and I was mortified! I was drunk so it took me awhile to notice.
The picture was so horrible I wanted to crawl into a hole and die. I deleted it from my own phone, I only hope they did too (they are nice people at least).
So not long after, I had a new fit bit (took a break for a few years other than sleeping cause it made a sore on my arm). Started by jogging every hour to 300 to get the 9 hours active reward. I didn't care if I got fired so I did it in a corner at work. Never got in trouble surprisingly.
Before this I had already given up eating free food at work. That helped me lose my first 10 lbs. with no effort.
The jogging and logging everything I did eat helped me get myself in line and lose another 10.
Then my google feed randomly put a DareBee desk workout pdf pic in my articles to read. Pretty sure that's what it was, otherwise that was a different site and DB was an ab workout. I saved it in an open tab for awhile, but that is what got me to the site once I finally checked it out.
After I lost the first 20 lbs jogging, I felt great and knew I could now do other jumping around type exercises without worrying about hurting my joints.
Was definitely not easy at first. Even easy things kicked my behind, but every time I get through it I feel great. I do it before work and after a particularly intense session, I love feeling cut all day.
First it was doing just the exercise of the day. Then that with the workout circuit of the day. Then that with the monthly challenges added. Now with that this month the FIT also added to it.
It's perfect. I love the pdfs, I can quick look at the card, be mindful of what's next, and keep track of the sets, times and counts.
Right now I am 30 lbs lighter than this time last year, 40 lbs lighter than when I started and 60 lbs lighter than my worst. I am never going back.
I finally look like me again. I can recognize myself against a picture of me in my teens. I have pants that my hips barely keep up anymore, so also having fun getting new clothes and replacing the too big stuff out. Slowly but surely.
So an extra big thank you to everyone who runs the site. It has helped me so much and has become one of the favorite parts of my day. Well, at least for Monday-Friday anyway...I rest on the weekends.
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Healing vibes and a Happy New Year!
(And don't feel bad about what didn't get done; you are a rock star!)
