Weight Loss the Beginning

Hi everybody! I decided to start a blog about my journey through the trials of weight loss.  I am overweight, as hard and awful as it is to admit that, it is the truth.  I belittle myself in my head, I continually berate myself for my weight, I put on this facade of humor for the outside world and pretend like it doesn't bother me.  But in truth, it does.  Don't get me wrong, this doesn't happen all the time, just some of those quiet reflective moments.  I do however, have a wonderful husband who loves me, and supports me, I have two the the most amazing kids on the planet, and some of the best friends a girl could ever pray for, so why do I worry about what I look like? I have everything already! I have nothing but POUNDS to lose! (Yes that's how I came up with the title for my blog - catchy huh?)

Today I started a new "thing".  This has not been my first start on a new "thing" in order to get my body into shape, be healtheir and weigh less.  It's probably my gazillionth, ok not gazillionth but it has been a lot.

So what's so special about today? Absolutely nothing, it's just a normal summer Monday.  However, there is no time like right "now" to begin right? One can only think about it so long, or plan on doing it and getting started until, you either just do it, or you give up on it and give up on yourself.  I decided this year, my new years resolution, was that I wasn't going to berate myself (you all know that head talk you do with yourself) when things I planned didn't go according to plan.  So, today I put my plan into action!

So what did I do today? Today I put on my tennis shoes, my (new had to have so I could jog) headphones and went for a jog.  Ok, ok it was more of a walk with bouts of jogging but I did it! I did it for 27 minutes and 6 times around my block!

I loved stretching my legs to take in another length of pavement, I even enjoyed the labored breathing, because I KNEW I was doing something good for my body! I rocked out to my christrian music station on Pandora and well I didn't excatly run like the wind but, I did run. 

My PLAN is to try to run/jog/ walk each day.  That can sometimes be hard.  I am the mother of two amazing children.  I have a four year old daughter and a 20 month old son.  My husband leaves really early to go to work and comes home and it't HOT in the afternoons.  I am a teacher so I currently have summers off.  So finding time to walk/jog is hard to do even though I KNOW how beneficial it can be. 

Tomorrow the plan is to get up with my husband at five, yes five in the morning and go for my walk/jog while he is preparing for work.  I want to do this! I need to do this! I can do this! my Lord will provide me the strength to do this! Pray for me!



I am posting my photo, this was today, after my run.  It's not pretty.

Tune in tomorrow to see if I was able to accomplish this small feat! Because after all I have NOTHING but pounds to lose!