Journey to a healthy me

Since my last post I am now down 80 pounds. It hasn't been easy to not see the scale drop as quickly as usual. I went on vacation, moved, and went back to school for the semester. It's been hard getting back into the routine of eating well. Convenience is a nice factor, but so unhealthy most of the time. My health has been pretty good. I have been struggling with low blood pressure, but on Sunday I had extremely high blood pressure. It was strange to see the readings, but I could pinpoint that my eating habits most likely affected how high it was. My eating needs to get under control in order for me to be healthy. I took some photos of myself the other day. I was shocked at the difference from about a year ago to where I am today. The picture I was comparing to was even 20 pounds lost! I am shocked at what I look like compared to then. I will upload a picture another day. Confidence is what I wanted to write about. I have more confidence in myself since losing 80 pounds t...

I have lost 70 pounds! Last week marked a year  since I started my journey to get to a healthy weight. I doubted myself at times, but I am not going back now! I never imagined that I could stick with watching my calories and making exercise a priority everyday. This week has been a quick weight loss week. I know I haven't been eating enough most of the week, but generally make up by dinner time with calories. Working out has been getting easier. I have been reading, but just finished the book so I need to find another book to read starting tomorrow. I starting running more. I am pushing myself to get fit and healthy. My vacation is coming up, and I can't wait to see the pictures because I will have comparison pictures of one year of this journey.

Typically I have to be careful walking out of the bathroom to my bedroom so my family doesn't get a glimpse of my butt. Well today I discovered that is no longer a problem. I can wrap a towel around me and do not have to worry about my butt sticking out! These little things make me so happy. I have lost 67.8 pounds so far and want to lose another 50 pounds to be at a healthy weight. I increased to 4 days at the gym and started my running program again has been helping me to reach my goal. Eating has been tough lately. I have been so busy that I typically miss breakfast and lunch. I started drinking coffee without anything added to it, and I love it! It has a great taste and I love its zero calories!  A new week starts tomorrow and I need to get a few of my eating habits under control.

I typically weigh myself in the morning but I forgot. I weighed myself when I got home from work and I have hit the 65 pound mark! I feel starting back up running is correlated with my weight loss. Tomorrow will be Day 2 of Week 3 of a couch to 5k program. I am pushing myself to do this for me! I can't imagine myself going back to how I used to live. I'm doing this for my future because my future is grim if I am not healthy. Going to keep working hard at becoming healthy for my future and go against the flow in my household.

I took two weeks off from running because my hip was really bothering me. My eating habits have taken a backseat to my whole journey. I have been maintaining between 192.8-195.6. It's not a huge fluctuation, but I want to stay at the lower end. Today I was at 192.8, but I just ate horribly! When I have sweets in the house, I can't stay on target with my calories. I gave up counting them today because I know I went WAY over. I'm struggling to find food that I like that is low in calories and healthy. Packing my lunch needs to be a priority, but I get sick of the same things over and over again. I have to just start over tomorrow. I'm going to run in the morning, well I've gone back to Week 2 of my Couch to 5k training, but I did the whole thing without changing speed on Wednesday. My hip is bothering me, but I am going to run tomorrow. I'm not going to give up, I'm going to keep pushing through. I did it on Wednesday, I can do it again. I'm getting bore...

The number 1 signifies a lot to me right now. My weight starts with a 1 for the first time in a long time. I can't believe it. It shows hard work pays off. It is a step in the right direction and I am going to keep going in that direction! Despite hiccups I am not giving up and going back to the weight I was at. I am happier now and am working on becoming a better person inside and out. The happiness definitely comes from God. I ran Week 3 of the C25K this morning. Later I found out about the tragic events at the Boston Marathon. I am shocked and saddened that someone would do such a thing to people who enjoy running and to those simply watching the event. Praying for all those affected by this tragedy.

The other day I was thinking back to where I started... I never took a starting photo, because I didn't think I'd be blogging about it. I'm amazed at the transformation. I've lost 55 pounds! It's been slow, but I'm glad it's been slow because I'm learning how to eat better (slowly) as well as how to manage my time with work, exercise, and school. This was taken in September. I finally fit in an XL in misses! I was so excited (you can tell by my expression). I fit, but it was a little snug, but I didn't care! It fit and that's what counted in my head. Since September I've lost more and can fit in an XL in Juniors! I'm young and I want to wear younger clothes that make me feel confident in myself. This is me a few days ago. My face is smaller, by arms are smaller, my hands are smaller, and my body is smaller! EVERYTHING is smaller! That outfit was something I didn't think I'd fit into. My loose skin is causing me to feel v...