I'm 26, live in Moscow, 84 kilo, fed up with my appearance, starting new life

[Zverka]

Hello, I'm Svetlana, I live in Moscow. Since I remember myself I was always a little overweight. In year 2006 I became obsessed with PIU (Dance Dance Revolution clone) and my weight dropped from 72 kilo to 63, I was a little bit happy, but not satisfied. At that time I was really bored from gym workouts - I tried some, but it was as boring as hell, so I quit. Also as many girls I didn't want to get too bulky, so I never thought of strength training.

In year 2008 I moved from my native city Kazan to Moscow and started "sitting" job as marketing specialist, the crisis made the labor situatuon in the country really tough, so I worked my ass out to keep my job - and started to gain weight again and finished 80 when I quit that job in 2009. The next two years I started PIU again, but not regularly, so now I got a new job, 84 kilo...and tadaaaaa - I read the article about Spezzi. I've been searching around recently for education, so I've read few books and blogs about healthy way of living. The article made so much sense to me, that I took myself and last Friday put into gym. They have the area with free weights and pool and they are situated near my place, so I payed for year subscription and had my first training on Saturday.

The current situation look like this:

My height is 170 cm - which is 5.577 ft

My weight is 84 kilo - which is 185.188 pounds and 35% of fat

sorry guys, we have different metric system here, so I'm used to kilos and cm, I'll try to convert them anywhere possible.

My goal is to become stronger - right now I cannot work with free weights, because my arms are sooooo weak, so the trainer said I should strengthen them with fixed first, next he'll move me to free weights zone.

I don't care about my weight anymore, I just want to look good, have a lot of energy and be healthy, fast and strong. I'm keeping my scales to keep the track of the fat % in my body.

My advanatages: I have pretty good stamina, because of PIU, and my heart is also used to exercises.

My disadvantages: My meal is not perfect yet, I'm cleaning it up, still, I have to change a lot of my habits.

I hope to post my updates here ) I don't have any special challenge yet, maybe you can assign me any?

[CapN_Tommy_Sunshine]

Welcome to the Rebellion! Let us know how we can help.

[Zverka]

Hello, CapN_Tommy!

Maybe you can help me with setting a proper goal?

[Zverka]

Thanks, Marktwin! what can be a measurable goal in my situation?

[Alessan]

Thanks, Marktwin! what can be a measurable goal in my situation?

That seems easy enough, let's say, for start - give yourself a timeline (let's say three months) and just say "In next three months I want to lose X kg and get my bodyfat percentage down to Y%."

I have no expirience with weight-loss, so I don't know what the exact "X" and "Y" should be... Go to the "Weight loss" section of the forum and check the threads...

Welcome Svetlana, best regards from Croatia to Russia

EDIT: On the other hand, you could choose a goal of getting in shape and doing free weight workouts in a couple of months or so, if your weight is no longer the object... Good luck!

[NorthRoad]

Well If you go on the paelo diet and you're strict you could lose a lot the first two weeks. Because you're cutting out the carbs you will lose a lot of water weight. Allthough you will be gaining some muscle weight to, so I wouldn't trust the scale to much, but take hones pictures. Espeacially pictures from the back, I promise you looking at pictures from the back is a great motivator. In one to two months I wouldn't say that losing 10 kg is unrealistic ( just remember the scale lies you could loose a lot of bodyfat without loosing weight ).

[Zverka]

Hello, Alessan,

weight is no more a goal, so I think for the begginning I can stick with fat %. So my goal is to change 35 % of fat into 30% in two months. In absolute kilos it's 4,2 kg of fat. I think it's possible. I'll correct my goal if I reach it sooner )

[Zverka]

ok, today my boyfriend broke up with me. Fine! More time for WORKOUT!

[MegaCarp]

Aww Bummer dude! Very glad to have you. So you said you were cleaning it up? Are you writing down everything you eat? Also I like the idea of the getting to use free weights in 3 months. I think thats a great goal that don't have you wondering what a meter or a scale says. I mean if you could have goals such as the following it'd be cool.

1.) Get to free weights in 3 months

2.) Nutrition where you 'cheat' (or not) once a week

3.) Workout X times a week consistently

Of course you can set the timelines to anything like the 3 month interval thing.. Nice thing about goals, they are flexible

[Zverka]

I don't write down - I just know what's healthy and what is not and everytime I eat something not healthy I feel guilty (. so, I'll know I did everything right after I get rid of the feeling.

ok, so my goals for 3 months:

1) % of fat from 30 to 35

2) eating healthy food and not feeling guilty anymore

3) starting working with free weights

now I put my hard cap on and get working!

[Zverka]

ok, week passed since I got obsessed with life changing ) 81,4 kg and 33.4% of fat. Yay!

[Be Ninja]

Svetlana...you can do it girl! track you progress! Don't forget to take pics for your use.

[Zverka]

Thanks, Ninja! I will take a photo of myself in a gym every Saturday ) I've already got one from the first day, tomorrow will be the next. Do you have your thread around here?

[Zverka]

ok, I'll contimue to log everything on special section here: http://nerdfitness.com/community/showthread.php?4235-Zverka-s-GO-GO-GO!-fury-training-log

[Freddy5Fingers]

I think you have some good goals. Another way to look at goals is what Steve writes about. He's always got some good articles out there about how to set goals and track your progress to them. I have to continually re-evaluate mine (more so this week since I may end up having surgery on my knee knocking me out of doing a Warrior Dash next month )

Another great read on personal goals is on Sarah's Everday Paleo site.

http://everydaypaleo.com/2011/08/05/you-cant-fix-a-body-you-hate/