start of my progress pictures

a chilly Fall morning

{photograph: David Wise}

I woke up this morning, after a very late night, and sat at the computer. I work at the computer a lot. As a student in writing, I write. As a blogger with four active blogs, I blog. And there is emails, facebook and catching up on my other blogs.

I don't mind this time. It's a "me" time. I can just let my brain wake up slowly and get into the flow of things. I really enjoy taking my time in the morning, especially as the chill of Fall breezes through the city. Leaves are changing colour, days are getting shorter and a cup of coffee freshly brewed tastes fantastic.

Except I didn't have coffee.

A time for change. I drank my first glass of water this morning, mixed with some lemon juice.

I want to get my eight glasses a day in, and I am going to get my eight glasses a day in.

It seems like such a small goal but it isn't. I have always struggled with hydrating my body enough. After four or five cups, you kind of just get tired. Of peeing alll thhheee tttiiimmmmeee. But enough of that. I believe in positive thinking. I believe in change. And we all start somewhere.

Today, I start with water.

Tomorrow, the world.

ETA: got my eight glasses in!

a shy hello

This is my second attempt at an anonymous weight loss blog. I found that when I googled myself, my first blog still came up as I had used a similar email. Well, no more. Anonymous is where it's at.

But why anonymous?

The simple fact is that I'm embarrassed.

I'm embarrassed enough that I care so much about my weight, that I let myself get this far, that I have this weakness. It's an issue that I'll be working on but for now, I'll make the change within and start working on the outside as I go through this struggle.

Anyways, who am I?

I'm a twenty-five year student, in my MFA program. I like Starbucks, scrapbooking, storytelling and obviously, I'm over-weight.

I am in the prime of my life in other matters - I'm engaged, I'm writing, I'm planning to start my photography business, I'm so very happy and fulfilled in my life - yet I don't want to go through the rest of my life as fat.

I got fat when I was eighteen. I left home, I stopped sports, and I started eating more and more unhealthy items. I didn't have self-control and it was all too easy to eat, drink and eat some more.

Pretty soon, I had a weight gain of 150 lbs in six years.

At my highest weight (March 13th, 2008), I weighed 325 lbs. It was insane.

So I'm making the change, slowly but surely. I currently weigh 318.4 lbs. And I plan to keep losing.

Nice to meet you.

Started: Sept. 30/2009 @ 318.4 lbs

October Weigh-In's:

Oct. 4th: 316.4 lbs
Oct. 7th: 318.4 lbs
Oct. 11th: 321.8 lbs
Oct. 14th: 325.0 lbs
Oct. 18th: 321.4 lbs
Oct. 21st: 319.4 lbs
Oct. 25th: 316.0 lbs

November Weigh-In's:

Nov 18th: 320.6 lbs
Nov 22nd: 320.6 lbs
Nov 25th: 318.2 lbs
Nov 28th: 321.2 lbs

December Weigh-In's:

Dec 7th: 317.8 lbs

January Weigh-In's:

Jan. 17th: 324.6 lbs
Jan 24th: 324.0 lbs

starting weight loss from highest point at 325 lbs

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- take a dance class

-walk around Stanley Park

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-join a "team" of some sort

- walk daily

- start to run again