Getting Started!

Hi All!




I'm Jena Marie, I'm 21 (Almost 22, cant believe it! Wasn't I just 18?), an actor and Facebook addict. Think there is some kind of rehab for that? Like FA or something? How nifty would that be?! No more Cafe World withdraw for me! Yeah, right! I think MAYBE Facebook Apps have some kind of hidden message in them that makes people play them. Like, that ANGEL episode SMILE TIME! Anyone know what I'm talking about? Show of hands? Maybe I'm a nerd, but if I am then I am proud to be!

I am mostly doing this blog in hopes it will help motivate me to lose weight. I feel like I have been trying to lose weight forever! The first time I lost weight was about 6 years ago when I went to visit my brother and his girlfriend (now wife) in New York City. All that walking in the City will make ANYONE lose weight! Sadly, as soon as I got home I gained the 20 pounds back. I liked the way I looked when I started losing weight and even more, how I felt!  But it was hard to lose weight living at home. No one else wanted to show any support and its hard to do it alone, so I gave up until I met a girl who later became my best friend.
I started taking walks with her everyday, we had so much fun on our walks that I never even noticed how far we actually walked. I ended up losing about 25 pounds, but she had to move away and I ended up gaining it back when she was gone. After I graduated from High School I moved with my brother and his wife where they had moved a year earlier- New Mexico. I lost 15 pounds in New Mexico, I think I would have kept losing weight if I had stayed there but my best friend said she was moving back home, that made me want to go home too! I ended right back in the unsupportive house..Yup, you guessed it! Gained it back! and it turned out before my best friend actually got to move back home she meet a guy. She failed to tell me that she was just going home for a visit and not moving back. At that point I was already sucked back into the black hole and it was a down hill spiral from there. I gained 15 pounds. That leads me to now. I have lost the 15 pounds I packed on during my own little depression.


 I now have a new best friend who is very supportive in my weight loss and even though she doesn't live in the same state as me,I have never had more support. We are losing weight together even though we arnt together. Its been working out pretty good. I have joined a online site called SparkPeople.com. I log what I eat and it tells me how many calories and fat I have eatin. I also log my work outs and it will tell me how many calories I have burned that day threw out the week! I think it is a great site and I am doing better using this site then when I was on Weight Watchers. Weight Watchers just didn't work for me,and then there is the fact that they charge up the butt! .. well up the butt for me. I'm not made of money!


My best friend, her sister and I are going to LA in November and that is my deadline to reach my weight goal. I don't think I will be able to lose the whole 130 pounds by November but I would like to lose as much as I can.
Any tips that you might have at all, I am willing to take a crack at it!


Starting weight March 10, 2010: 297 pounds




May 24, 2010:  279 pounds


May 31, 2010:  277 pounds


June 7, 2010:  275 pounds


"You could say I got a best friend and she's always telling me what to do. She's out of sight but easy to find. She's in the front of my mind. The little voice in my head won't let me forget. The little voice in my head is never misled. All of this noise is what keeps me from making a mess." -Little Voice, Hilary Duff