Welcome back. It' sure has been a while.
Last time I was active on this blog I was starting my weight loss journey for the FIRST time. That was 4 years ago. Obviously so many things have happened in those 4 years. We can start with the birth of a 3rd child! A little girl who is everything I never knew I always wanted. Next lets talk about how I went from 220 lbs to 170 lbs and back to 204 lbs as of today. I can safely say that the weight was not from the pregnancy. I weighed 184 lbs when my daughter was born. I worked out in the gym, lifted weights, and ate fairly clean up until about the 8th month. She was 7 lbs 3 oz at birth. I gained a total of 12 lbs the ENTIRE pregnancy. My overweight curse has always surfaced AFTER the birth of each of my children. Not soon after rather 3 months or so after and continues to escalate all the way through their first birthday. At this point its a tradition! Now you might say Del, that's just baby bliss girl..."Ain't nobody got time" to work out right after birthing a human. I say its just neglect. I can't use that fun-sized mini human as an excuse, I would never, but I can own up to my own choice to neglect the gym and my health. There...I said it...and it was kinda freeing!
So, here I am back where I started. I am ready to get off this hamster wheel and officially live this life. Officially ready to tell the stories from my former fat self. I hope to motivate myself in the process as long with others. Let me also remind you all that YOU can do this without the help of large companies and their multi-level marketing systems. YOU can use this wonderful resource called THE INTERNET to look up workouts, recipes, etc to get you to where you need to be. Of course you can always count on yours truly for a good laugh, an update, and some information about what I am doing and how its going! I also started a YouTube channel here that you can follow along as well. I hope to have weekly updates of things I tried, things that wore me out, things I liked and I didn't like. This can consist of food, work-outs, clothing, and just about anything else I want to try that week or maybe something you want to know.
I don't have a clear direction on where this blog and YouTube channel are going. I have always only had ONE goal aside from losing all of this weight once and for all. That goal is to turn Stories From My Former Fat Self into a book.
Thanks for coming along on this ride with me. Stick around and eventually we will fit comfortably together in this tiny cart on this roller coaster of life!
Recovering Ranch Doritos Addict,
Del
