The First Day of My Next Journey

Hello everyone!  Today marks the first day of my new weight-loss goal.  In exactly 50 days I will be arriving in California to see my friends whom I recently moved away from, and more specifically, to attend the wedding of one of my long-time childhood friends.

Anyone who’s been overweight knows what I’m going through right now.  You see an event in the future that you’d really like to look slimmer for and you set crazy goals to be thinner by then.  Maybe you even start out well by getting back to the gym and starting a restrictive diet.  But most of you know that this doesn’t last long.  The date of the event gets closer and closer and you just keep starting over, each time with more frustration.

Well, as a long-time overweighter (yes, I just made up a new word) this has been my pattern for…well, basically my whole life.  I am turning that trend around on this very day.

I am 27 and throughout my teen years and all of my twenties so far, I have been thinking “this is the year.  This is the year I’m going to lose weight and my life will change for the better.”  Well, this is the year, and I am writing this blog to hold myself accountable to it.

My goal is to lose 20 pounds in 50 days.  Is this a lofty goal?  Yes, probably.  All of the articles I’ve read say to create small goals so you don’t let yourself down and get frustrated.  I say, dream big and if I only lose half of those pounds, it’s still better than where I started!

Each day until my goal day I will post my progress; mental progress and physical progress.  I encourage others to join me and to use this blog as a reason to hold yourselves accountable too.  Let’s make our goals a reality!