Welcome to my blog, some of you may be readers from my column in The Michigan Times or you may be new here and stumbled across my blog through the vast internets. Either way I welcome you! The whole premise of this blog is to openly discuss my battle with weight loss. I am not ashamed that I weigh a little over 240 pounds, because muscle weighs more than fat, and I have a lot of muscle tone, but I gotta whole lot of fat too. I am laid back and funny and brutally honest. So welcome! And enjoy, and always feel free to comment, I enjoy the feedback or you can even share your own experiences with weight loss.
Well it has been a while since I have updated everyone on the epic battle which has been my weight loss. Last spring I set a loss goal of 30 pounds. I totally didn't even come close, what's even worse, I gained 12 pounds.
At first this weight gain really upset me, but I noticed, and had been noticing that my clothes were fitting more loosely and I looked thinner. Hell, I even bought a pair of leggings. So I have been working out, but what I didn't realize, was that yes I was losing fat and inches from my problem areas (my awesome "are you pregnant gut" and my "hello/goodbye" under arms). What was happening was that my body was replacing the fat I had stored in these areas with muscle. I was also building more muscle in areas I didn't even realize.
What killed me, is when I first started working out I probably should have taken my measurements, that way I could see that I was losing inches and not only be worried about the amount of pounds I was losing. Well lesson learned.
I lost my ambition to work out when I saw I was putting weight on. I quit working out, I was depressed and completely lost my motivation. But I am ready to start hitting the gym and 100 times harder! Over the summer I bought myself a vintage Schwinn bicycle. I really must admit, it's pretty rad. The only complaint I have is that it is single speed and when you are trying to peddle 240 pounds up a hill, well it ain't pretty folks. But I have been soldiering on, eating right, walking more, the whole nine. So now in this blog I intend to share with you my triumphs and my downfalls, and the undoubtedly embarrassing and funny journey I will be making trying to lose this small person I have gained in weight.
So welcome, and please feel free to comment, and feel free to laugh. If I didn't have some manner of humor about all this, I don't know how easy it would be for me. I think the best medicine is being able to laugh at ones self and move on.
