If you don't already know my name is Liz. To start off i want to let you into my life a bit because i feel it only necessary for the first post to know me a little since this blog is entirely about my entire weight loss journey.
First and foremost, I'm 24 and live in the driest place in America.....I'll let you take a guess. After taking a year off from college I'm going back to finish my Bachelors.
So let me tell how this whole journey began. All my life i been a active kid. Playing every sport i could! From soccer, basketball, volleyball, tennis, track, and softball. I'm a lot like my dad and get dirty and getting rough with sports, that was my hobby!
After high school all the sports slowly died out. I played Co-ed Softball with my father for a year in college but then that ended. I took some yoga classes in college but then i started to loose interest. Then i got into a relationship with an amazing guy who I'm still with and we both graduated with out Associates from our community college. The next step was to move out of our homes and move a little up north so we could both attend one of our states Universities.
Within a couple months, The stress, the depression, and the change woke me up from what i had become. I realized i was really big, uncomfortably big. A big i was not used too. When i finally got to weigh myself i weighed 230 lbs. None of my clothes fit like they used to. I couldn't sit down without feeling like my fat was going to exploded, which i think would have helped with weight loss but not healthy...jk though. I was unhappy.
The weight made me so depressed and the stress over money when we first moved got to me as well as the stress with keeping up in my new school really got to me and i knew i had to change.
One day before i had to go to work i realized, i can go workout for 20 mins....it's a great start because i would be doing something. I felt so lazy but i knew i needed to make the decision. My apartment has a little gym so it wasn't far all i had to do was go and get in there. Then the door knocked. It was our maintenance guy there to replace the kitchen bulbs he just wanted to see how big of a ladder he needed for the job. He left to return and at that moment i realized. Let me change and enjoy this opportunity to be lazy and when he is done fixing the lights i go workout. And that's what i did. As soon as he left i walked my happy big but to the gym and walked at 2.5 mph for 10 mins and then light jog for 20 mins at a 4.0 mph.
This was the start of a whole knew change i was so excited for! That day was the first day of August in 2013. Currently its July 12, 2014. I'm currently down more than 50 lbs. Although i haven't lost as much as i would want to I'm just a little over 20 lbs to my goal weight. My overall goal was to be at 150 lbs but this August, which is in less than a month, even though i may not make that I'm still positive and i have learned so much in this journey that I'm truly OK if i don't make it. Slow and steady wins the race after right?
The point of this blog is not only to journal my journey for myself, but to maybe there is someone out their who needs that little motivation. Maybe there is someone out there who needs that friend, that push, the motivation to get up and make a change in their life. I hope i could be that for someone like the shows, friends, and family that have been there for me. I didn't put my current weight on here today because I'm less than a month away from my one year anniversary on this journey and i see it would be fit to share the update then along with pictures. I want to share what i learned with others that way it can help them in their journey! I didn't used and weight loss drug it was all natural. The whole eating healthy and working out. I wanna help others in my journey because even when i get to my goal weight I'm still living my new life and sticking to it.
So there it is a little journey in my life and why I'm here on Liz! Take Two!. So i hope to post weekly for life moments and haven't decided if I'm doing two a month on weight updated but time will come on that.
So til then friends! Have an amazing healthy Weekend!!
Love Always,
Liz
