My goal? Jousting and roller derby <3 Let the journey begin!

Hello~ I'm Anna. Although I'm not exactly "new" here, this is my first time posting/ reaching out, and finally committing to getting healthy.

When I was little, I used to be in shape and was active in all kinds of sports ~ soccer, gymnastics, swimming, ballet ~ but our financial situation got bad and I had to drop everything. So to keep things short and simple, I now weigh about 290 pounds.

I was blessed with the opportunity of working at a Renaissance Faire where I got to be a squire for an amazing jousting troupe where a female friend of mine jousted. When she left the troupe, she started her own and I followed. I would love to be able to joust within our troupe but I can't fit into any of our armor and I just graduated high school so I don't exactly have the money to purchase my own suit.

As for roller derby, I was in a junior league but I wasn't able to find a ride to most of the practices and so I ended up dropping out. I want to go and tryout for an adult league but not in the current state I'm in now.

It's going to be a long, tough road ahead of me.. I'd like to lose about 155lbs and it would be nice to have some friends to help or even people to talk to with similar interests.