First Post

Wow. This is my first blog post. I have spent a lot of time in the last 8 months to a year with Mama Laughlin, Skinny Meg, and Two Ton Teacher as permanent bookmarks on my iPhone home screen.

Where do you start when you start blogging?

I have a lot of things I want to say, but I will save some things for down the road. Mystery is the spice of life, right?

I am 27 years old and married to a man that I probably don't give nearly enough credit to. I recently just found a love of exercise. It took me 27 years. I was never involved in sports...never. I signed up for youth softball and never showed. (I got a vote for the all star team though! Someone saw my potential!) I never cared about what I ate...never. No....I would NEVER order a Chick Fil A sandwich, AND nuggets in one sitting...not me...didn't happen! I was active enough in other things, and just being a teenager, that I didn't have to care about what I ate until I was 21. Then came beer, and vodka, and late night Taco Bell runs.

I've been struggling since then and I finally think I have enough of a handle on my life to share my struggle and journey with other people.

I am going to start with what I weigh right now. As I type this, I weigh 171.9. I am 5'4". If you look at the BMI Scale, that's considered overweight. I have never considered myself overweight, even at my heaviest, which to my knowledge (because I didn't own a scale until 2011) was 189. I clocked in at that number around the time I got engaged to my now husband (what a chubby chaser!).

My overall goal is to be at 130 lbs. It's a goal that has been completely unattainable to me in the last 3 years because homegirl likes her bread.

I am an over-sharer. I want to tell you all my whole life right now. I want to start with how I never thought I would weigh as much as I did at my heaviest, then move on to how never thought I would lose 20 lbs before my wedding and then gain most of it back soon after. Then I want to talk about how I actually like to lift weights and move my body now, and how I still struggle with delicious, yet gross food, and laziness. But that will all come, right?  I want someone to get to know me....the me that I have held from so many friends and family.

I read the blogs of these amazing women who have put it all out there for everyone to see. They have inspired me, sometimes to the point of tears, and I hope one day I can do something like that for a girl who thought she couldn't.

I'll get there one day. Right now, I'm going to be too busy figuring out my own crazy, carb loving, shin splinting life.