GetFitWithLiza

I wrote up a bunch of reasons why I want to lose weight, to help motivate me to lose weight. My herbalife coach told me to write it down and to post it near my mirror or the fridge or even in my phone to help me remember why I want to lose weight and why I want to get to my goal weight.


WHY I WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT

• To be able to look good on my graduation on December 2012.
• To prevent getting any chronic illnesses that runs in my family such as high cholesterol, hypertension, and pre-diabetes or any other illnesses. 
• To feel more energized 
• So my feet can stop hurting when I stand in one place
• Look good without clothes
• Look good in a bikini/lingerie
• So I can do a boudoir photo shoot 
• Be able to fit into a size 2 or 3 in pant size, (26)
• Get to my goal weight before summer 2013: Hawaii, EDC
• To be able to fit into my old clothes. Old expensive 7 jeans and shorts and dresses
• Get rid of my back fat so that my bra doesn’t muffin top my back fat
• To be able to wear my old bras comfortably
• To feel and be stronger
• So my thighs won’t chafe (rub together)
• Get rid of my double chin
• So my family and relatives will give me compliments on how good I look instead of saying I gained weight.
• So I wont have to hear my grandma say “stop eating you’ll gain more weight.”
• To have nice legs like I use too and toned thighs.
• So my thighs won’t jiggle
• To be able to wear anything and look good in anything I wear
• Be able to wear a tight fitting dress without wearing spandex/spanx underneath
• To have toned flat stomach
• So I can be able to wear tube tops without my upper chest fat hanging over
• To be able to sit down without my flab hanging out
• To make life long healthy changes throughout the rest of my life
• To prevent more stretch marks from coming 
• To feel sexy and beautiful
• So when I go back to the Philippines they won’t call me fat.
• To live a long healthy life
• To be within my IDEAL BMI and not overweight
• To motivate others such as my family and friends and be a role model for them
• To feel comfortable and confident with my own body and not caring what people say

GOALS

• FINISH TAP OUT XT
• ROUND 2 OF INSANITY
• Finish P90X ROUND 1 hahah
• GOAL WEIGHT 120, 118, 115
• RUN, TRAIN FOR THE MARATHON
• GET BETTER WITH RUNNING at least 9min/mi. 
• RUN 3 MILES WITHIN OR UNDER 30 MINS
• WEIGHT TRAINING
• DO ATLEAST 4 GOOD PULL UPS ON MY OWN
• MAINTAIN HERBALIFE
• DRINK ATLEAST OR MORE THAN 8 ½ GLASSES A DAY
• SAVE MONEY

Start date: 07/17/2012

An old friend of mine I knew back in middle school added me on face book a year or two ago. At first I didn't recognize her picture but I recognized the name. She lost a ton of weight from using herbalife. She works for herbalife as well. So I recently contacted her because I was interested in trying the products and I wanted to get great results like she did. So I started off with all of this. She's now my herbalife coach and she's helping me get to my goal weight.
Basically I take the shake twice a day and eat one regular meal and snack in between the meals. I also take these other supplements and a TEA. I will do updates!

****7/19/2012 UPDATE*******************************************

I gained all my weight and i'm back to where I started. It's a little upsetting because I was so close to my goal weight and I could have easily gotten there. Now I have to start from scratch and work harder. All my hard work just went to waste. But hey, it's life. You get yourself back up again and keep moving forward. I'm not perfect, nobody is. I started gaining weight on my winter break DEC 2011. When I when back to school again my weight would fluctuate from 127-132. I did exercise here and there but it wasn't on a daily basis. I would watch what I eat at times, and I stopped counting the calories I took in. When I started my summer vacation, I told myself I would shed all this weight off.. but apparently, that didn't happen. I ended up gaining weight because I was surrounded by food! I came back home for summer vacation, and my mom and grandma would cook, there would be a lot of parties. I'd go out to eat because I would miss out on food I haven't had when I was in school. It was getting crazy.. But i couldn't control myself because everything tasted so good. It wasn't until I wasn't able to fit into my summer shorts that made me realize I needed to do something. I hate spending money on new clothes just so I can fit them. So AS OF TODAY JULY 19th 2012 I STARTED THE EXERCISE WORKOUT CALLED TAPOUT XT! with my boyfriend. I also started on HERBALIFE to help facilitate my weight loss that way by the time I graduate on DECEMBER 2012 end of this year, I'll look good in my graduation dress!! It's all about control.. and how motivated you are and how much you really want this.

THIS IS WHAT I'M LOOKING LIKE TODAY.. at my heaviest






2008: I graduated from High school and began my freshman year of college. I didn't quite gain the freshman 15 everyone was talking about but I did gain about 5lbs.
2009: I started seeing a dramatic change in my weight from august 2009- dec 2009. My roommate and I moved out of the dorms and into an apartment. This gave us the opportunity to cook for ourselves. I remember we kept making big batches of chocolate chip cookies. I made like a dozen each day and who knows how much I consumed. We also didn't eat very healthy. We ate a lot of white rice, spam corn beef. And a lot of freezer foods. I think that's how I mainly started gaining weight.



2010:  This year I reached my heaviest, weighing 135lbs. I can tell I gained weight because my feet would hurt just by standing in one place for a short period of time. I'm only 5"0 so weight that much puts a lot of strain on my feet. I also started getting numerous stretch marks on my thighs. They were bright red and itchy. This made me realize that I needed to do something before the summer began. So I started Insanity near the end of APRIL. I got wonderful results but still wasn't at my goal weight but it was good enough. Better than what I looked like at the beginning of the year. I weighed 122.



2011 I pretty much maintained my weight throughout the year. I was my lightest during the summertime and often gained more weight during the winter time. I was starting to gain more weight during my winter break. I came back home with a lot of good food to eat, a lot of the food that I missed when I was staying back at my apartment.




2012: My weight would fluctuate when I started my spring semester of nursing school. I would run with my friends here and there and do a little bit of insanity.. but It wasn't on a daily basis. Probably exercised 2-3 times a week. Then I started gaining weight when I came home for the summer.. NOW GOING TO START TAP OUT XT! something new.


Pictures throughout my weightloss/weight gain from 2008-2012