So I have decided to write a blog. My therapist says I need to engage in more kinds of activities outside of my family so here is my first attempt. And for the topic of my blog...I will be chronicling my weight loss adventures; yes the famous exploits of a fat lady trying to lose weight. I haven't actually started losing weight though so we will call this first blog the introduction to me. In fact, I am gaining weight...rapidly. As I am writing I have probably gained 3lbs cause that's what seems to happen to me. It takes me a week to lose a pound and all I have to do is watch the Food Network to gain it back.
About me: I am 31 and overweight. I have been all my life. I was always the fat kid in the corner with no friends. Sigh, poor me. But one day, after feeling sorry for myself for like 27 years I decided it was time to do something about my weight. Very slowly I started working out and losing weight. It didn't come off fast and it wasn't easy but it came off. I attempted a number of diets and each worked a little until I got bored and went off of them. But I would never gain the weight back. I would just try something new later when I was ready and keep the weight loss going. About 2 years ago I was in the best shape of my life. I started running, I was only 25lbs overweight, I had lost 100lbs, I looked amazing and felt better than I had ever felt in my life. And then I met my now husband, got pregnant, gained 50lbs during the pregnancy and well, here I am once again. But this time its different. I can't remember how to lose weight anymore and it's much harder than I remember. I am a full-time working mom and a wife. After I come home and take care of the baby, when is there time to make and eat dinner, clean, (yes the husband helps with both) spend time with my husband, workout and still get to bed before midnight? It's a lot harder now and I am struggling. I hate how I look but at the same time it's hard to find the motivation I once had to look better and to feel better. Especially when I have the most amazing man who loves me for who I am (even if I don't). I feel there must be women out there who can relate and might find a little solace and hopefully have a couple of laughs at my expense. And if you aren't one of them, and you lost all of your baby weight in a week and look better after your 13 kids than you ever have, please don't leave comments. I can be a violent person. So, I hope you enjoy.
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It would seem to me, and I'm going to try to be as unobjective as I can be, that you have a husband you loves you greatly. Even though you have not seen results your husband can surely see the effort that you put forth. That alone should be worth all the world, and I know that you do not take any of this for granted. God bless you that you still think so much of others, and not as in what they think of you, but in how you can do more or be better for them.
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