Hi, and welcome to my blog. I have decided to write about my journey to a healthy, fulfilled life. Here I plan to write about weight loss, fitness (and my disdain for it!), and trying to be the me that I am supposed to be. Also, some general commentary about what is going on in the world.
I am 27 years old, from Southern Canada. I love living here, and the freedoms and rights we have. My life has been a constant weight struggle, and it has resulted in me currently weighing 261 lbs. According to the BMI index, I am morbidly obese. That is a sure wake up call for me, I do not look like I weigh that much. I love cookies and candy, and all those other things that are bad for you, but taste SOOO good! I am going to try to cut down on those things, and to stop looking for quick fixes. My goal is to try to do one good thing for my weight loss everyday. Today, what I did, was I signed up for sparkpeople.
Sparkpeople is a great FREE website that has all the health and weight loss information that you could ever want. It was started by some people that used to work for EBay. They have a food tracker, and a great little thing called Fastbreak. Fastbreak is a set of little goals, that help you get started on your journey of being healthy. From now on, I will never mention weight loss again. Being healthy and feeling good is about the lifestyle that you lead, being active and feeling good good about who you are. I want to be healthy. I am going to make time to take a walk tonight, after everyone is in bed. I will do it rain or shine. I also want to look at some recipes that could be great and are on the cheaper side. With the economy being what it is, I want to try to keep my expenses low. I will also post recipes here, and if you have any to share, please send them to me or post in the comments. Together we can be healthy!
My health is important to me, and so is being who I am meant to be. That has meant making some changes in my life that not everyone is happy with. The first change was getting rid of some toxic friendships, and toxic people. A toxic friendship can be many things, from someone who is always late to someone who encourages you to sabotage yourself. Some of these people I had been friends with for a really long time, and for some of them, it was like they had died to me. The first friend that I ended my friendship with was someone that I had known for about six years, and she was constantly bringing me down with her constant life crises. I am not saying in any way that I am perfect, I know that I contributed to the break down of our friendship. Unfortunately, I had to do this one the hard way, because she would not take the hints that I no longer wanted to be around her. I had to sit her down, and tell her that although she is a beautiful person and a wonderful mother, for the sake of my mental health, I had to end our friendship. She was shocked to say the least. It is still hard to think about the good times that we had, but in time, I will be able to look back and know that I did the right thing.
Life is all about change, and it happens whether you want it to or not. I have been at a standstill in my life career wise, for a few years now. I went to school last year, to become a dental assistant. After taking the course, I realized that it's not for me. I am currently pursuing other career options, and considering a career in the legal field, such as legal assistant or paralegal. That part of my life is still in the planning stage so I will keep you posted to the outcome on that.
In conclusion, please leave your comments, suggestions, and anything else in the comments. I want to hear from you, my readers. Well, I guess my goal is to get some readers first. Critique me, tell me what I can be better at.
Signing off,
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