My Weight Loss Transformation: The Beginning!

Let me begin by saying that the reason I chose to document my weight loss transformation in a blog for other people to see is because I want to share my "battle with the bulge" with others like me who, on the outside seem very happy and aloof about their appearance, but on the inside are struggling to get their weight under control but just don't know how. I, like you, read books on diet and weight loss by doctors and dietitians who know all about medicine and nutrition but have absolutely no idea what it feels like to be in my body and in my mind and go through life being 5'2" and 176 pounds by the age of 14...that's right! I weighed 176 pounds when I was 14 years old. I have been there, I have lived through it and emerged victorious on the other side. But let me start at the beginning.

When I was 11 or 12 years old, I was a very athletic and healthy kid weighing in at about 100 pounds. By the time I was 14, I weighed 176 pounds. Don't ask me how I got there, I just don't know. Maybe puberty did a trick on my body, maybe I just started eating way too much, I am not sure. The point is, I gained a lot of weight fast. To make a long story short, I tried to ignore it, as most kids do. After all, I still had a lot of friends and was very popular but I did not have a date until I was in my 20s, yep...my 20s! My parents tried talking to me to no avail until one day I woke up and I was 23 years old and weighed a whopping 180 pounds.

One day, an old friend walked right past me on the street and completely ignored me. I called her name and asked her why she did not say hello. Do you know what her response was? "Oh my God, is that you?! I didn't recognize you, I thought you were an older woman." Now ladies, we all know that when it comes to our age, the word "old" is the kiss of death, but those were her exact words and they were burned into my brain from that moment on. That was my epiphany, the moment that my life changed forever!

I am now almost 37 years old, I have two children; a 5-year-old daughter and a 4-year-old son and I weigh 135 pounds. At my smallest, I weighed 125 pounds (this was before I had my children). I lost over 50 pounds in just under 8 months and have managed to keep most of it off for almost 14 years.

I am telling you all this because I want you to believe that losing weight and keeping it off your entire life is possible. I eat real food, eat out at restaurants, go to parties and barbecues and live a normal life with my husband and two children. If you follow my posts, I will show you how you can do this without starving yourself, killing yourself at the gym or paying crazy amounts of money for fad diets that make promises but don't work. I will show you how it can be done because I have done it. Best of all, it is all FREE. All you have to lose is your weight!

My mission is to lose MY last 10 pounds and be at my pre-pregnancy weight. With me supporting you and you supporting me, we can do it together. No matter how much weight you have to lose, it can be done!

Let this be the beginning of your weight loss transformation!