March 17th??

Where has the first few months of this year gone? I don't really know!

We have been pretty busy. Alyssa's soccer season starts the first part of February. She usually has at least two sometime three games a week, plus practise the rest of the days, and this year she has had some Saturday games. She is also on the high school Math team and that is a nearly every Saturday event too. One Saturday we did Math team in the morning, ate lunch then had soccer in the afternoon. It makes for some busy weeks!

Ok, so I'm not really into blogging about this but I was told by a friend that I needed to tell my story. 1. for motivation for myself and 2. to maybe help someone else who is struggling with losing some weight. So, here we go!

Back in August of last year with some help from my parents, I decided it was time to change some eating habits. (aka DIET) So, this was me back in Sept of 2009.

I was over 200lbs. Ok, so 20lbs over. I might as well be honest and face it!

I started walking with some ladies in the our neighbor and got up to walking 5 miles a day. We were walking atleast three times a week, some weeks we did it 5 days a week. It was great! We were eating right, I was cooking more. Before Christmas I had lost about 20 lbs. I was finally under that 200 mark!

I haven't taken any picture lately.

Since Christmas I have only lost 5 more lbs. This is why I need the motivation. With the weather being cold and rainy we haven't walked and I can surely tell! I'm not making good food choices and I'm not cooking as much. I don't feel like doing anything! People would talk about after exercising they felt great, I didn't believe them till now. It's a feeling that only gets better each day you exercise! It's so hard to describe, but it does make you feel better and feel like you want to do things!

Diet and exercise is a daily battle for me, it's not easy, but God never said life would be!

We have gotten back to walking one or two days a week, and I've gotten a friend that that is doing this journey with me and we report our gains or loses every week to each other. It helps for accountability and so will this blog. Or at least I am hoping this will.