We all know that most people struggle with their weight at some point in their life. I have fought with my body all my life. I've had lots of excuses, some legitimate health issues and some not so legitimate lazy issues. Last year I turned 25, weighed 180ish pounds (and I'm only 5'4"), and decided to stop listening to all my excuses and start changing my life. I knew this was not going to happen if I jumped in too deep too fast, so I started small.
I cut my food portions in half and tried to be more conscious of how many calories I was eating (not that I was strictly counting calories but that I was just more aware of how much I was eating). I lost about 10 pounds in about 2 month which helped motivate me to start being active.
In June I bought a pair of Reebok Easytone shoes and started walking. I walked where ever I could and used an elliptical machine whenever I could. I lost another 10 pounds that summer and was feeling optimistic (which is a big deal for this pessimist). At that point I was the smallest I had ever been in my adult life.
After that I moved on to walking on a treadmill everyday and another two months later I was on the verge of being 150 pounds but then the holidays hit and I began a new weight battle. I gained 5 pounds by New Years, which I think is not that bad for holiday weight but I did not want to allow the gain to continue. So I kicked up my weight loss routine and lost the five pounds but burnt myself out. I did what I knew I shouldn't: too deep too fast. Fortunately I was aware of this and decided to be content at 150 pounds and just try to maintain it.
That was working well for me until I got into a car accident, lost my three part time jobs within a three week period, and lost hope. Just before my whirl wind I had started doing Bikram Yoga which was the best workout for me. Unfortunately when you loose all income you can't really justify over $100 a month to yoga. The scary combination of stopping yoga, sitting at home all day, and eating way too much comfort food made me gain my lost weight back rapidly. When I stepped on the scale next I was up to 165 pounds again and hating myself.
The comfort food was put away and the treadmill was started back up. I started feeling better and decided that I needed to figure out a way to not let myself back track again. That brings us to the purpose of my new blog. I know there must be lots of other weight loss blogs out there of different people documenting their success and probably even more blogs that died away without any weight success. I have never read a weight loss blog and have no idea how it's commonly done so this is just going to be my way. I really don't care if anyone reads my blog but if someone finds it and likes it or finds it motivational then that's all great but the real purpose is to keep myself accountable. I am challenging myself to post everyday (at least every week day) about what physical activity I did that day. And every Monday I will post my measurements and hopefully the numbers will be going down every week. Stay tuned and hopefully I'll reach my goals which is to be 130 pounds and a size 6. So long story short I'm starting a weight loss blog in the middle of my weight loss goal which I started last year wanting to loose 50 pounds and as of today I want to loose 25 more pounds. Let's do this.
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