I'm baaack!

Ok first off, I know it's been a good while since I last posted anything. I blame good ol' laziness for that one. Truth is, I fell of the wagon. So far off the wagon that at one point I know I ate Taco Bell for dinner 3 nights in a row, fast food was practically every meal and I was doing a whole lot of nothing. I gained back 10 lbs because of this. Not only that I felt like shit.

I'm now on day three of my new workout regime and closing in on the week mark of my new diet. The hubby and I are going with a low carb approach. It seemed to fit seeing as everything we ate was LOADED with carbs. We were probably taking in 150-250 grams of carbs a day, and that's a conservative guess. Now, we're averaging at about 50 or so carbs a day. I'm also watching my calories and keeping them under 1600 a day.

For the workout, I got a 30 free pass to Anytime Fitness as a park of their COAK pledge, I'm not sure if it is still available but you can get a 7 day pass. Our location is very reasonably priced at about $35 a month. I've been doing an hour of cardio everyday, and every 3rd day doing 30 minutes of weights. I am honestly surprised at how well I've been able to keep up on the cardio. Every time I've tried to workout at home, 10 minutes in I convince myself that I've done enough and I can stop. Then I do. The weights honestly kicked my ass this morning, I feel like jello from the chest up. But I know that will get better soon!

I weigh in tomorrow, just so we're all clear my starting weight was 243, so we'll see how it's going! My goal is to be under 200lbs by January and then to 150 hopefully by my birthday in June.

Do you find yourself better motivated at home or at the gym?

Post #1 - Hello Internets!

Hello world. I'm Destiny and thank you for reading my blog. If you are wondering about the name, Magical Ass, let me explain: I am starting my weight loss journey and I am hoping that my ass will prove to be "magical" and start disappearing. Yeah I know, super cheesy but I think it's funny.
So here's what I'm starting with, I am at 256 lbs., the highest weight I have ever been at. A wonderful combination of shitty habits and a pregnancy have made my fat ass what it is today. I'm a size 20 (jeans) / 3 XL (shirt). I am also 23 years old, into alternative and folk music, absurd comedies, Harry Potter, I'm addicted to social networking sites. I'm kind of a lazy ass and I like to plan out things but not actually do them. Yep, and I'm trying to be honest. I could leave that last part out but where's that gonna get me? It's lying to myself that got me here in the first place (I'm not really fat, it's just genetics...I just had a baby last year, it's to be expected...who cares if I'm fat, I have a great husband and a gorgeous kid, what else is there?) I told myself that shit every time I started to notice that my clothes didn't fit anymore and I couldn't walk down the hall without losing my breath. I hid any picture of myself, no posting those things to myspace.
Then, it started to dawn on me, what am I doing? Seriously, is it better to dilute myself with bullshit rather than just fix the fucking problem? Yes. Yes it was, for another 6 months or so. Then I started noticing that I wasn't having any "hot" days, you know when you get ready in the morning and you think, "wow, I look cute today!" I had those in high school and up until after Lulu was born. Then, they stopped. I don't wear anything but sweats, jeans t-shirts (men's usually) and hoodies. I have also developed the "easter egg belly" where your lower tummy pooch is nicely defined under your pants then your shirt doesn't come down far enough to cover it up, so you have a 2 toned belly thing going. So yeah, being fat sucks ass.
I'm not bitching about this for the whole post I promise but I just want to establish how I feel right now, maybe someone will relate and maybe I want to go back and read this and think "Man, I don't miss that!"
My husband and I have started eating better and I'm getting about 1500 cals a day, and today I did some exercise. OK I did 10 minutes of a Jillian Michaels kickboxing DVD (it was fucking brutal, I thought I was going to die!) Then I took a break and then did half of a ab cardio video. Yay! I plan on taking a walk later too. I'll let you know how that goes.
Let's finish this off now, I'm running out of things to say really...

THE JOURNEY BEGINS!!