Hi everyone...
Let me first start off by saying I've been a "big girl", "chubby", "pleasantly plump" (though there is nothing pleasant about that), etc... Sometimes I felt it more so than other times. I look back at old pictures and remember how I thought I was so fat and think of how skinny I look in them and how big I am now. I don't care what anyone says... there is no such thing as "being fat and happy".
I am new to blogging and am doing it more for me to keep track of things and to inspire myself and have an accountability system. If you want to follow me, go for it... the more followers the more support and accountability I have. Plus I'd love to hear your stories and and suggestions or advice.
The past year my weight has gotten the worst it has ever in my entire life and I was comfortable and lazy and seemingly happy. Then all hell broke lose. A year ago I started feeling really fat and depressed all the time. I was having lots of issues in my relationship at the time and didn't really care about my health. Then I got my tonsils taken out. The first week I was on an all liquid diet which actually wasn't as bad as I thought was going to be (but I got to sleep a lot, which helped). The second week of my recovery I found out my boyfriend at the time had cheated on me... let's just say that my stress levels were out of control then. I broke up with his sorry ass... In the next few weeks I lost a total of 16 lbs from getting my tonsils removed and the stress. It was a great start for weight loss. I was 246 before I had my tonsils removed... made it down to 230 a few weeks later. My normal routine was to be depressed and eat my feelings but my throat hurt too bad (since it was recovering from surgery) so I moped around for a bit until I realized, what the hell am I doing? I knew I needed to change my life to make it how I wanted it... it wasn't just going to magically happen all by itself.
I decided I'm going to make 2012 about me and going to get my life back to the way I want it. I want to be healthy, even if I can never become skinny enough to wear a bikini. I want to be able to run a 5k, 10k, or even a half marathon (though that is a scary concept at this point). I want to center my life around activities and people rather than food and being lazy. I want to learn to eat healthy and how to make the right chooses even though I'm a super picky eater. I am happy being single now but one day I hope Mr. Right will come along.
So, let the journey begin! :)
I have been going up and down a few pounds the last couple of weeks. I started back on Weight Watchers on Jan 5th, 2012 and started the Annapolis Striders 5k running program on Dec 13, 2011. It's time to transform this fat girl into a runner! :)
Here are a list of my goals for 2012.
