August 12, 2012

The day after that little blue dress kicked my butt and I joined MFP.

I was 210 lbs and realized that I needed to change. I had actually never tried to lose weight before, because I never felt I was so big that I needed to. I have the blessing/ curse of gaining weight all over, instead of just in one place. It’s a blessing because you don’t look as big as you are, but it’s a curse for the same reason. It’s easy to convince yourself that you don’t need to lose weight because you look fine.

Prior to August 2012, a “normal weight” for me would be somewhere in the 180’s. This is the weight that I have been most of my life, and the weight that I was comfortable at. When I first joined MFP that was my goal, I really just wanted to get back to that comfortable weight.

I had selected a goal weight of 160 kind of arbitrarily, but in my head I was just aiming for the 180s. After that I told myself that I would be fine. Little did I know that the changes I made would become so addicting that I wouldn’t be able to stop in the 180’s. That I would keep going.

And here we are a year later, approaching the 160 mark. I since revised that goal to 150, but getting to 160 is still a big milestone for me.

I would have liked to hit that mark sooner, but things don’t always go as planned and life gets in the way. But I never stopped; I kept coming back day after day. I just hit 300 consecutive days logged on. This means the last day I missed logging on was my wedding day on October 14, 2012.