I have a blog?.....oh yeah! I cant believe I let so much time go by without annoying you lovely folks with all these crazy details in my life (that I'm sure you find obnoxious but that I just feel I MUST share with the world :-) ). I honestly started this blog before I ever imagined my life being this crazy, but isn't that what we always say. Its easy to just blame our lack of motivation on "not enough time" and yet we (and by we I mean I) never seem to get anything accomplished.
So, since its been ages since my last posts, I thought what better way to get back into the swing of things than to start blogging my dieting process. I know, I know....If you have seen one weight loss blog then you have seen them all right?! Well, rest assured, this catalog of blogs to follow will probably contain nothing special from the rest. However, I feel it might help me stay more accountable. After a recent trip to the doctor with not so happy results and not to mention the fact that I am obviously overweight, I have decided that my life and my health are too important to me to let my current weight situation continue any longer.
Now, even though I haven't always been overweight, I have however struggled with weight off and on for roughly the last 10 years or so. A roller coaster ride of weight gain and loss. Once I became pregnant with my daughter in 2008, I gained about 50 lbs and by the time she was born I weighed about 170. The normal stress and chaos of new parenthood left me to gain an additional 30 pounds and now I am at a somewhat steady 208! Holy cow did I just announce that to the world?! Heck yes I did. And while I'm not proud of that number, I do know that many of us struggle with weight and that if I am going to take this serious then I cant sit back and let a silly number be something I'm afraid of. Its no one fault but my own that I am the size that I am. I like food.....and cake.....and dr.pepper.....so sue me!?! I'm sure you do too lol. And those are all things that are leaving my life for a while......cue the funeral music....
My goals for this weight loss journey are to set small achievable goals for myself. One thing at a time. I just started this past week with working on cutting back on my very serious Dr.Pepper addiction. Were talking 2-3 large size McDonald's cups worth a day, YIKES! While the first couple days were rough, it seems I have made it through that rough patch and are not having the huge head ache withdraws. I cannot quit the caffeine cold turkey so I have switched to limiting my self on sweet and unsweet tea while drinking as much water as I can. Now that I'm over that hump, my mail goal is to cut out processed foods, fast foods, fried foods, sugars and starches with be limited and moderated......that's a mouth full!
As far as my blogging goals, I plan to check in once a week with updates on my progress, my mess ups, pretty much any thoughts or interesting stuff about this whole process. It honestly scares me to death to attempt this because when it comes to dieting of any sort, I ALWAYS fail! I have to stay strong and keep the end result and big picture in my head. I CAN do this! I WILL do this! I have faith in myself that it can be done. Now, to just keep my but in gear! Wish me luck!
