First Entry: HISTORY

i couldn't decide if i wanted to blog about my weight loss journey on www.hoppinthebroom.blogspot.com or start a new blog and as you can see i decided to start a new blog. this blog is about my journey to fit in "the dress" as i am getting married in october! anyway my wedding is some of my motivation to get this pounds.

well i am ready. for what? you may ask. i am ready to finally lose this weight once and for all by god's grace. i have been over-weight since i was in elementary school up until 2006 when i lost 75 POUNDS. i was tired of being fat so i decided that it was time i did something about it. so together with my biggest loser book and a gym membership i started on my weight loss war. i remember being so afraid that it was going to happen but then it did. i joined the gym in on december 2o 2005 and by 0ctober 3 2006 i had lost 75 lbs it was hard work but i was the happiest i had been in my life. well on oct 3 i tore my plantar tendon in the gym and had to take some much needed rest. i was on crutches for the first time in my life and i never felt so alone before. why? because although i was happy with myself i didn't have anyone to share it with. so on friday october 13 2006 i decided to go hang out with my younger brother and his friends and i met the man who is to be my future husband in 9 months ...hee hee... during our courtship i got very comfortable and i gained all 75 lbs back plus some. i can recall gaining the weight back and at first i thought that it was cute....the first 10 then next thing i knew it was 25 then 50 now ALOT ! so after countless attempts at trying to get a grasp on this thing i am not starting this blog to keep me accountable and have a place where i can go to express my truimphs and failures..the ups and downs and all that good stuff in between. i don't know if anyone will ever read it. its more for me than anything.

TODAY @ 6pm i am going to join weight watchers! the reason i choose ww is b/c i joined last summer and did fairly well with them it gives me the opportunity to be around people going thru the same thing. lossing weight is hard to go at alone and i know i need the most help nutrition. once i start excrising and get in a routine it becomes a habit. but food on the other hand i am not so good with so i decided to go with ww. i am excited!

i have decided that i will blog at least once a week as i am a grad student and my schedule is super busy and holiday break is coming to an end. i plan to blog my weekly weigh-in success and failures and monthly pics of myself to document this exprience. good luck to all of you out there embarking on a similar journey. intial weigh-in today. i will be bacck. i gotta handle some thangs :^)