Welcome!

Welcome to my new blog!

This blog is going to be dedicated to my weight loss journey for at the very least this year. I've been wrestling with this idea for pretty much the whole month of January and I've finally gotten up the courage to do it.

I have struggled with weight all of my life and I know that I will continue to struggle through it for the rest of it. But right now I am not happy with my weight at all and I've finally made up my mind to do something about it.

I use to be on a weight-loss program back in high school when I lived with my dad, mom and younger siblings. This was the first time that I have lived with them much less being told what I could and could not eat. Since I was raised by my grandmother until she passed away, I was spoiled. When I was younger I would deny that until I was blue in the face but now that I am older I have fully accepted that I was spoiled. Now don't get me wrong, I loved my grandmother and I know that she loved me but at the same time she wasn't a parent to me. A parent would have been strict, especially when it came to dieting. I mean I didn't even have a bedtime until I was 15 years old, so one can tell that I was fully spoiled. Not that she didn't love me cause I know she did but she loved me like a grandmother loves and not how a mother loves. So needless to say when I moved in with my dad, mom and younger siblings it was a bit of a shock.

Suddenly I was in a place where I had a bedtime and someone who watched what I ate and was willing to do anything to get me healthier. My mother, well stepmother but she is more of a mother to me than anyone else, took me to a nutritionist the start of that summer and I was given information on everything that it would take for me to lose weight.

To make a long story short I ended up losing a good deal of weight in the two years that I lived with them. I was able to do laps around our yard for 30 minutes, one lap would be running and one would be walking. I ended up not snacking nearly at all and always stuck to portion sizes in everything. I started to eat vegetables and drinking more water than ever before. I was finally starting to feel happy about my weight but then I made a mistake.

I moved out and back into the house where my grandmother raised me. Now it wasn't a mistake to move back in because my grandfather needed me to move back in and the environment at my parents' house had become somewhat stressful and unwelcoming due to certain events. So when I moved back in, I immediately fell back into my old ways and in a matter of months I had lost all the progress that I had made.

I hated it but I never fully committed myself to losing weight again since I was starting college and whatnot. I didn't give it a second thought but now as I sit here at 27 years old and the biggest I have ever been in my life I have come to a decision that I don't want to live this way any longer. Its time for me to take my weight back into my control and not let it continue to hold me back.

So I decided to create this blog for mostly myself and this is why. I feel that if I post weekly what I have eaten, what exercises that I have done and other motivational things that I can be held accountable for it. Knowing that I am going to be posting weekly blog posts that others could read and comment on will make me feel even more accountable for it and motivate me further.

This blog will be updated weekly, every Saturday night in fact. Everything about that week will be recorded. Every morsel of food that I eat, every drink that I take a sip of, every step of exercise I do will be posted for all to see. I'm not going to be counting calories but rather portion sizes of the foods that I consume. I will warn anyone know that I don't stray far from certain foods that I eat regularly. For example, I love having a couple of scrambled eggs with some steamed white rice every morning for breakfast, so you might be seeing a lot of that meal.

Also I wanted to say that if you have any tips on how to eat vegetables or just healthier to please leave a comment. I want to try making green smoothies with my magic bullet but I am unsure as to what vegetables and/or fruits would go well with each other.

Oh also, I am unsure if I will be posting pictures of my progress throughout the year or do a final post of my progress showing the before and after on the last blog post of this year. Any advice would be welcoming.

Thank you for joining me on my weight loss journey and perhaps we all can help be each others motivation!

Summary
Age: 27 years old
Height: 5'10"
Current Weight: 425 pounds; Goal Weight: 180