Today is the first day of my new journey!

For a while now I have been playing with my yo-yo. Since deciding to start a new journey I will be throwing that yo-yo away. For as long as I can remember I have been wanting to lose weight and was never happy with who I was as a person (inside or out).

With the support of amazing people I have started to realize some amazing goals. In the past two years I have learned to love myself, I have learned that I can do anything I want and that anything is possible. I have succeeded and I have failed in many different things. I have also learned failure is a part of life and without it you can't grow as a person.

My confession:
After competing in a fitness challenge I lost 29 lbs 10 weeks. I was and still am proud of all that I accomplished during that time. Since then, however, I have gained many of those pounds back. I will not view this weight gain as a failure. I am choosing to see it as something that I have learned. My highest weight was 215 lbs. My starting weight for the competition was 170. My lowest weight so far was 139. My current weight is 165.

I promise to myself that I will lose 2 lbs per week and that I will learn to love myself more everyday. I will not let any weight (gain or loss) determine who I am or how I feel. I when I am at my goal weight of 130 lbs I will learn to eat properly and never touch my yo-yo again.