Day 1

I am going to start a weightloss journey and I wanted to write about it so I could see my progress or/and my mistakes...

Today will be my first day and I am going to pledge to start doing alot more exercise and to lose 10 pounds in a month, sounds hard to do, but I need to do this. I am depressed and sad all the time, I am burried in self hate and I need to find away out. I am not saying that by being thin I will magically become happy, I am saying I need to lose weight to be healthy, to be able to live the life I want. I want to be able to look in a mirror and not hate the reflection, I want to be able to try on clothes without going into a full blown anxiety attack. I need to regain control of my life, to change not only my eating habbits but to change my lifestyle.

I am a 29 year old mom to a wonderful 10 year old little girl, I have always been very active with her till this past year, I have had numerous surgical procedures while the doctors were trying to figure out what was wrong with me, they have yet to figure it out. But I lost alot when I gained the weight, I lost the desire to go outside and play, I am afraid people are looking at me and thinking how gross I look, I hate to wear anything reveling, I am afraid people will do the ewwww thing that I see them do to others. I am scared for my health, but I am also sad that I have lost a part of me, I lost the crazy girl who rollar bladed every day, who climbed the trees with her daughter, who ran forever with her dogs, so in this weightloss journey I am going to try to find all the pieces of myself I have lost. I am a size 14 right now and my goal size is a size 8, so yes I have a long way to go...

I know my biggest hurdles are going to be going without sodas or at least cutting back big time, as it is now I probably have 4 a day or more, I am going to cut back to 2 for now, I know that sounds like alot, but for me its going to make a big difference. I am also going to research the best vitamins to help me out with my health and change alot of my eating habits. I am a sucker for salt, and in all my research salt is pretty bad for alot of my medical problems, I am also going to cut back on fast food out and the fast food in...I am always just microwaving something or ordering, this will also help...I am also going to start listing something everyday that I am proud about myself for, wheather its a dead or a feature, it will help with my low selfesteem...

I am also going to take some time everyday to just sit and be quiet, some might say meditate, but nah I just want to take 10 min a day to just sit alone and be quiet, and truelly relax. I am also going to strat taking my sleeping pills in order to get real sleep, my insomnia is getting worse and I know that has alot to do on my lack of energy.

I know I have alot of work ahead of me, but I also know that I can do this, that I am capable of setting goals for myself and achieving them. Some of my posts will be pretty dark, as I have alot of dark thoughts inside myself, some will be pure joy as I see small strides in my journey...I am confident at this point(might not be tomorrow) that I can do this, and I hope that I will be able to get some help from my family and friends, I know Ashley will help, she loves to go for long walks with me, and I know Ken will support me, now I just need to get my mom to stay off my back lol...anyways welcome to my journey of self discovery and happiness...buckle up because this may be a wild ride..

Carie