The Beginning

I’ve thought a lot about how to begin this blog and to date I have not come up with anything clever so I’ll just begin at the beginning. I decided to start this blog as a way to keep myself honest about losing weight. I’ve always been heavy at least since I was in the first grade. At my heaviest I weighed 276 and that was in 2000. Over three years and in phases I lost 86 pounds. My husband and I decided to try and have a child. Then we had a series of miscarriages and with each loss I would gain about five to ten pounds. We conceived our son in 2005 and I was careful with my eating and only gained about 20ish pounds. After my son was born I hovered at 230s. Then when he was a year old I was approaching the 250s again and began panicking that I would eventually get back up to 276. I was able to get back into the 230s and we began to try for a second child and had two more miscarriages. New Years Day I weighted 243 again. I knew I wanted to start losing weight so I made my husband a deal, that if we did not get pregnant in December then I would take two months off and get my weight back towards what it was when I conceived my son. My first step was to start moving more.

My goals are to keep my calorie intake around 1300 and to exercise 20 to 30 minutes 5X a week with Wednesday and Sunday off. I have great hopes for my own journey.