Starting a blog!

I have always loved to read and write, but I never thought I would be doing a blog. The thought has entered my mind a few times but sadly it was more of a trendy thing that everyone was doing so I figured maybe I would too....but life gets in the way as it tends to do and although I find my life extremely crazy and chaotic and sometimes intensely interesting (with a husband and 4 young children) I figured nobody else would be very excited to read it. I am now 25 years old and it's been years since the thought of starting a blog entered my mind, until yesterday!


I have made a new years resolution this year, like most of us do...to get into shape, to lose the extra weight I am carrying around so that I can be healthy and keep up with my babies, lower my risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes...the list goes on and on. Now I have made this resolution before, just about every year of my adult life, but this year I'm actually doing it. I know we have all heard it before but that is the reason I am starting a blog. #1 I want to make myself accountable by knowing that other people can keep track of me, other people that know I am doing this...and will know if I'm not doing it. #2 Sometimes when you are overweight it is so easy to feel like you are the only one dealing with it, like your in the battle alone, like nobody understands the things you are going through. So I am starting a blog because if I have learned anything in the years I have been trying to lose weight it's that having support is the number one key to sticking to it!


I want to be clear from the start that weight loss isn't all fun and games and being happy about reaching goals and pictures of a tinier person every week (although that would be nice) Sometimes it's ugly, sometimes it's depressing, sometimes it's downright infuriating, and I plan on sharing all those aspects of  my journey so get ready for the reality!