day by day...

[losingweightdaily]

A little over a month ago I decided to finally focus on losing weight. I'm 24 and busy busy busy -- 10 hour days, partner at home, freelance work to boot -- and have been fat all my life. The previous 18-24 months had been pretty stressful, ranging from emotional stress (long distance relationship after a cross-country move until we could both get to New York), a bad job, a new job, a stressful job, job unhappiness, robbery, and family stress with my folks splitting up. Overall I steadily gained and gained (and I was already fat) until I reached what I estimate was 320 pounds or so, if not more (I only finally measured 3.5 weeks into my journey last week). So it was finally time to change all this; I'd been promising myself for a decade, my partner for two years, and now I was just being stupid and dangerous.

I decided a few things would be different for me this time around. While I'm really quite an introvert and especially private about my weight and work out, I didn't want to go it completely alone. Accountability reasons (my partner will always let me slide if I insist) for sure but also encouragement from others on similar journies was necessary. I decided this time around, I wasn't going to do a "diet" but instead go with Basic Math - burn more than I take in - and work towards healthy eating habits. I also decided I would blog (http://losingweightdaily.blogspot.com) through the journey regularly to keep myself honest, open to anyone who needed to find it, and have something to look back on. And lastly I would seek out community with others who are on the same journey, which has brought me here. I have other little things in there too, like stated goals & rewards, affirmation statement & motivational images, and learning as much as I can on health and fitness, but those are the major things.

So here I is, looking forward to meeting and chatting with others. Cheers,

[Lucie]

Well... BRavo on your decision ! And congrats on joining this forum...you'll LOVE it and you'll find plenty of valuable infos on helath, training and nutrition. Welcome aboard and do not hesitate to post and ask...there is always someone there to help, support, cheer or just read.

Have the best possible journey to your own self !

Lucie

[Michele]

Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! It is always good to have new people sharing their journey and insight...

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Making the decsion to lose weight is a difficult one, and it is definatly something that needs to come from within yourself, FOR yourself.

Good luck on the journey and don't give up...it will be worth the effort!!!