Wow, my first blog...I'm so excited! I've been thinking about things to post all day. First I want to state: I am in no way an expert or professional in the health and fitness field. Anything that I post is either my opinion or something that I learned from someone or somewhere else.
So I want to start out by stating the purpose of me creating this blog.
1.) I want to help inspire and motivate all of you in your weight loss journey. I will be posting my own recipes and workouts, and things that I come across (of course I will credit everything that I post).
2.) I want you all to motivate me. So please comment on my posts, share with your friends and family, let me know that you read them, whatever it is, motivate me! This is going to hold me accountable for my own weight loss journey. I am going to be completely truthful with you in my losses and gains. It's a scary thought, but I need to do it in order to really be successful. I encourage you to be open with me too. Whether it be in a private message or in the comments. Let's encourage each other!
So let me tell you a little bit of my workout background...
Junior year of high school my mom gave me a membership to Curves. As well as playing on 2 different softball teams, this was the fittest I had ever been in my "adult" life.
So then I went to college, gained a whole lot of weight and felt horrible about myself. I was comfortable but still felt horrible. I went to the gym every now and then but really didn't know what I was doing. My max weight at this point was 227. As soon as I saw that number I knew I had to change. So the summer of 2011, right after graduation I joined Planet Fitness. I didn't know anyone there but I went. I definitely didn't have any motivation, was not seeing any results and didn't know what I was doing.
My boyfriend decided to join LA Fitness in 2012 so in January 2012 I decided to join as well. I felt like he would hold me accountable for going. I looked into having a personal trainer and I started with him in July, twice a month. When I started with him, I weighed 217. Months went by and I didn't really see a big difference, a few pounds here and there. Then something clicked. I knew what was missing...a change in my diet. You always hear that diet is just as important as exercise. In my opinion, it's 75% diet 25% exercise.
The past few years that I have been working out, I didn't change my diet. I always ate salads and "healthy" foods but I never gave up the junk and I didn't really know what healthy eating was. So I started Weight Watchers right around the New Year. It wasn't a resolution because I don't really like resolutions. I just wanted to do it. When I started WW I was 211.
Obviously I longed to be out of the 200's. I made it to One-derland on February 11th. This was a HUGE moment for me. So now that I know how to do the whole diet and exercise thing, I would LOVE to share with everyone. And I also want to learn from you all!
My current weight: 195. My goal for this week? 6 lb loss.
So this was just an introductory post for you to get to know me. I know it's pretty revealing but please no negativity on this post. I'm here to encourage and I want to gain supporters out of this. And I will support you as well.
Next time I post I promise there will be some helpful tips and we'll get the ball rollin... ;)
Thanks for reading "Baby got back...into shape". I love my supporters and I hope this will help you all! :)
