Wishful Shrinking

Since this is my first post, I figured it would be appropriate to explain a little bit about myself and why I started this blog. Things have been a little slow for me at work the past few weeks and there is only so much you can do to waste time on the internet. And then I discovered the wonderful world of blogging. Finding entertaining blogs helped make the day go by so much faster. After spending a little too much time reading them (it's a wonder I didn't get fired), I realized what a wonderful tool they were to not only motivate others but to motivate yourself.

Hence here I am starting my first ever blog... My goals? I'm starting this blog to help me battle my demons when it comes to losing weight and getting fit. I was once a collegiate athlete (if you count softball - I have a friend that swears it's not a real sport) and was uber fit. I was never what you would call skinny, but I was nowhere near being called fat. After graduating college, I went from working out hard core all the time to working out like a normal person. I’ve never been a healthy eater and I wasn’t used to having to watch what I ate since I was always working out. I slowly starting gaining weight year after year, but didn’t really notice how bad it was.

About a year ago we had a weight loss competition at work and I, of course, signed up being the super competitive freak that I am (more on that another time). On the first weigh in I found out that I was 250 lbs. 250!! Yikes! It's amazing how easy it was to not pay attention to the weight I was gaining. I could hardly believe I had allowed myself to get that big. It was a 2 month competition and I ended up losing 25 pounds. I didn't do any special diets or workouts; I just really paid attention to what I was eating and how much I was eating. And I cut out alcohol – anyone who knows me knows how hard that was for me. After the competition was over, I had a hard time motivating myself to stick with it. I didn’t gain all of that weight back, but I haven’t kept it all off either.

So here I sit trying to figure out how to motivate myself to get back on that weight loss train. I’m not trying to just lose weight; I’m trying to change my lifestyle. I figure the best way to start is by taking it one day at a time. I’m going to use this blog to chronicle my daily battles as I start on this journey to making myself a better person.

Today’s challenge? It’s Halloween… enough said. I had already decided that I wasn’t going to get any candy to hand out because I hardly ever get any trick-or-treaters and I end up eating most of the candy myself. The hard part for me today is avoiding all the candy and junk at work. On top of people having candy at their desks, we are having a cupcake competition at work and they look so yummy!! But I turned them down so I'm starting out on the right foot.