What's this blog about? Who am I? Where are we?
My name is Cassie. I'm 21 years old. I've had a roller coaster of stops along the path to health and wellness in my life and I want to get fit, once and for all, and live the healthy life I've always wanted. Why? Why not????
Let's take a little look at my past. In high school, I struggled with an eating disorder. Stressed out by a hectic family life and a changing body from puberty, I started a cycle of disordered behaviors. I'd starve, binge, starve, binge, starve, binge, starve, starve, starve, binge. I think I started at about 165 pounds (which is healthy for my height). My lowest weight was only 150 pounds (see binges). At the end of it all, when I decided that the vicious cycle had to go and I had to stop the binge/starve cycle, I weighed 200 pounds. Ironic huh? I'm sure I did some terrible things to my metabolism and my body, not to mention the mental distress that was constantly haunting me.
Then I started college in the fall of 2005. I had a bad breakup and decided I needed to lose weight. I didn't want to fall into my old eating disordered ways so I ate 1200 calories a day (supposedly ok but for someone who's working out 45 mins every day and 5'9 probably not enough) and got a gym membership. Pretty quickly I was at 180 pounds and feeling good (even if I was starving all the time).
Then I fell into a relationship with some guy in December of 2006. I had this consistent nagging at the pit of my stomach that the relationship was a bad idea and I was unhappy but somehow stayed in it for 2 years. Not my best choice really. Unfortunately, my unhappiness and his penchant for fast food and red meat left me at my heaviest weight ever, 230 pounds. I was a wreck.
Shortly before I ended our relationship, on December 27, 2007 I started Slim in 6, a program by Beachbody. I only made it for 5 weeks because during the 6th week I broke up with him and my world turned to chaos. I lost 13 pounds and over 17 inches with my 5 weeks of Slim in 6. I felt a lot better about myself and had a renewed sense of direction in life. I knew I wanted to live a healthy life. I knew I could do it. I knew that Beachbody products could help me get there. Unfortunatly I let life (and a lack of internet at home) get in the way of my vision.
I made lots of changes in my personal life, including coming out as a lesbian. I started seeing and fell in love with a fabulous girl named Kara. At the begining of our relationship I weighed about 204 pounds (I had lost about 12 pounds after the breakup due to stress). Then we started cooking each other comfort foods and eating more and more meals at resturants. I worked out occasionally with the Slim in 6 videos and Slim Series, but I never got motivated to start a rotation or stick with it. Before I knew it, it was Christmas 2008 and I was back at 230 pounds, a weight had I vowed never to return to.
In January 2009, I refocused and decided I had to lose some weight (or buy new, bigger clothes). Between January and July I lost about 20 pounds by cutting back on portion sizes and getting more exercise in my life. I went walking and jogging a few times. I did a few of the Slim in 6 and Slim Series videos. I never exercised very consistantly though. I'd say I was averaging about a workout a week.
At the begining of July, Kara and I were talking about how we wanted to get back in shape and lose some of the weight we'd gained together. To my surprise, she said she'd do a Beachbody program with me and start on the path to clean eating. Both of us were ready. We looked through the Beachbody website and I emailed my old coach, Barbie. After some deliberation we decidied to do Power 90 with plans of doing P90X after we were in a little better shape.
Only July 13th, 2009 we started our round of Power 90. Today is currently Day 30 and we are going strong! We plan to wear sexy Halloween costumes and be well into P90X by Christmas.
<3 Cassie
