So here we are again...the beginning of a new year. Yes, you can make changes whenever you want. However there is something about the beginning of a new year that makes you want to make some changes to your own life. That is exactly where I am at right now. I am not happy with where I am in life right now. I am overweight, have an injured knee keeping me down, and have no motivation. Well this all ends now. I am famous for having an excuse as to why I think it's okay to eat poorly. I don't have anymore excuses, I don't want to say anymore excuses. I will say that over the last year I lost about 35 pounds, and then put on about 10. So I am still down but not nearly where I want to be. I went through quite a bit this year. Kyle and I have been trying to give Kylie I little sister, to no avail. We did get pregnant in August but suffered a miscarriage. We have been taking clomid to help us get pregnant and just recently decided to stop taking it and just let nature do its own thing. I hope that with some drastic weight loss it allows us to be able to get pregnant at some point. It was one of the hardest things I went through and definitely sent me into a depression. We sold our house in Alma and it was a long stressful period, but its sold. We are now living in Mt. Pleasant with my mother and father in law. I took a temporary position as an Assistant Manager in my store for two months. I started back to school this year and have maintained a 4.0 GPA all three sessions. Kyle started a new business with our good friend Joe. They own and run a hot dog cart in downtown Mt. Pleasant and just upgraded and added a food trailer. My brother Baker is now helping work the cart and we see him a lot more, which we love. Kylie has changed so much this last year. She is potty trained and so much more self sufficient. She is so happy and is talking up a storm, using full sentences. She knows her abc's, counts to 15, and loves to sing and dance. We are looking into preschool for her this fall, so hard to believe.
So what is it that I am planning to do to make these changes...well I am very restricted on my physical activity since I can't put weight on my knee for long. I will probably be getting surgery on my knee here soon which will hold up that process even more. So exercising at this point is out. I will be watching every piece of food that enters my body. I will be using Weight Watchers to track all of my food and monitoring my weight weekly. I am going to choose healthier food, not just save my points for bad food. I am going to keep using Kyle to stay motivated. He is also on the weight loss journey and we need to keep each other motivated. I am watching The Biggest Loser to stay motivated and watch all of these people go through the hard work and lose the weight. The final thing I am going to do is use this blog to track everything I do so everyone can see my progress and that includes posting my weight. Hopefully you will follow this and if I am doing well then you will encourage me and just the same, if I am sucking give me crap for sucking!
While I know I should only count on myself to make these changes, but support only motivates me more and more.
So here is to the new and improved me for 2013!
My first weigh in last January was 262 pounds. My last weigh in was last Monday at 238.8 pounds. I started back on weight watchers tracking on Thursday.
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