My Weight Journey

I began this blog mainly as a way to document my journey of getting fit.  I also hope to begin sharing about other areas of my life, but my main goal right now is to drop the weight and shape my body into one that I am happy with.

I have long struggled with my weight.  Looking back, I remember being taller than most other kids in elementary school.  Soon, others caught up with me in the height department.  I don't actually remember being very overweight, but I remember not being happy with my size and feeling like there was nothing I could do about it.  I was in the marching band for 7 years so I did get some exercise during the fall.  However, growing up in the south, food was abundant and not necessarily healthy.  Vegetables were loaded with butter or bacon grease and meat was fried.  We were never really lacking in the dessert department either.  I developed a strong love for food.  Soon after starting college and being 'on my own' it was easy to get fast food.  While commuting, I remember many times going through the drive thru at Burger King and getting a sausage biscuit with jelly and cini minis with a coke.  That was my breakfast of choice.  Lunch would consist of whatever was in the cafeteria - usually fried chicken tenders with fries.  I would snack in the afternoon - chips, candy, Little Debbie's.  Now that I really think about it, I'm surprised I never really gained more than I did.  After my second year of community college, I got married to my high school sweetheart.  Of course, he was always tall & slim and had no problem with what he ate.  After getting married I tried Weight Watchers, Atkins, and ediet.  I wanted to be young and thin and wear a bikini to the beach.  After we were married for a year I became pregnant and really started eating for 2!  I remember my weight being 189 at my first doctor's appointment and 234 sometime later.  I'm not sure if that was my highest or not, but that number sticks in my mind.  After my son was born in 2003, I didn't really try to lose the weight like I should have.  I was more concerned with being a mother.  My weight yo-yoed between 190 and 210 for several years.  My daughter was born in 2006 and I don't remember anything about my weight from that time.  Fast forward to 2010 and my weight was at a high of 229.  I didn't feel good and after several doctor appointments, it was discovered that there was a mass growing on my thyroid.  It was removed and I had hoped that was the cause of my weight gain and it would begin to drop off.  I was always looking for that excuse why I was overweight and this seemed like it.  I couldn't admit that it was actually what I ate and how little I exercised.  Now that it's 2013, I have changed my attitude about it all.  I'm pretty sure it came from reading blogs and seeing the transformation of other women that were the same weight or size as me and reshaping their bodies.  I have realized that my children deserve a fit mom and my husband deserves a hot wife.  I am excited for the journey ahead!

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