The Begining!

Yesterday I got on the new scale I purchased and to my utter disbelief it read that I was 247lbs. I was so shocked and embarrased. I wanted to start a blog about my journey to get healthy. I had begun writing before I weighed myself when I thought I was 230lbs. I was so sad about the news that I was 17lbs heavier that I erased everything I wrote and was going to chicken out of doing a blog. Instead of being depressed I am starting over. I chose to blog my journey, because I know that it will keep me accountable!

So let me back up and tell you how I arrived at my present condition and tell you a little about myself.

For starters I am a twenty-five year old, African-American woman residing in the Bay Area. I reccently graduated Cal State East Bay with a degee in Ethnic Studies. I am a Bay Area native, al though I do have tons of family that live in Louisiana. I feel like my whole college experience was about getting to know myself and now I am on a journey to love myself, get healthy and enjoy my beauty. I am not the best grammar student in the world, but I will attempt to make my blog readable. Forgive any mistakes along the way.

So, here is a little of my body history. I was a normal weight baby and an active child playing jump rope and tag daily. I was addicted!!!!!! When I entered high school I played a ton of sports, including ; volley ball, basket ball, batminton and I ran cross county. My average weight was 145lbs and I am 5ft 3inches. I started gaining weight in college, do to inactivity and a pizza habit. During my senior year in college I started walking and I was able to get down to 150lbs and a size 12 by graduation in June of 2008.

The victory was short lived, because I began eating candy and cracker snacks at my job in a poor response to stress. I stopped walking, because of bad weather and I did not adopt an indoor routine. I started eating ice cream and pizza again and by January of 2009 I was back up to 200lbs. I got depressed and the weight kept piling on. By August of 2009 I weight a total of 247lbs and am now a size 24.

This is a blog about my journey to get healthy. My goal is to start a daily exercise program and adopt healthy eating habits. I aim to kick my sugar addiction and my habit of eating when I am stressed. Goodbye, (French fries, grilled cheese, taco bell, pizza and ice cream)! By making these changes I hope to get back to a healthy weight range and dress size. The rewards I am most looking forward to is having my energy back!!!!!!!!!!!! Cute clothes wouldn't hurt either. The biggest obstacle in my way is food. I love exercise and just bought an exercise bike and free weights so that kicks the bad weather excuse. I just need to come up with a daily routine. I have no idea how I am going to tackle the food thing, but this is the begining of my journey. Stay tuned as I figure it out!!!!!!!!!!

Carolyn aka CLM