In Which She Starts Her Weight Loss Blog

Hello all, and welcome to my newest blog. Unlike my current personal blog It's All VampAmber-y, this blog will be focused entirely on my weight loss journey. I'm a lazy, lazy, lazy girl, so right now I almost never get off my arse and exercise. I'm also over 130 pounds overweight, so that's a really bad thing. I'm going to try to change all of those things, and I'm going to gab about it incessantly in here. Whenever I work out, I'm going to write a post about it. I'm going to start posting pictures of any major obvious loss of weight (and the first one will be the before picture to compare it to, of course). I will occasionally talk about dieting. Not very often, though, because I despise counting calories. I also eat way too much sweets and junk food, so I'm going to probably be mentioning my struggles with not doing that (as much, because I refuse to give that stuff up completely). A lot. I'm really going to miss my binge eating. It'll be nice to fit into my damn clothes again, but I still love you ice cream, I promise! I'm going to try really hard to update this blog as often as possible, because I'm hoping that'll mean that I'll actually exercise more often. I'm basically using this blog as a way to guilt trip myself into working out. Here's hoping it works.

To start this little adventure, let me describe myself a little. I'm a 30 year old female from Ohio. I'm somewhere between 5'4 and 5'5, depending on how honest I'm being with myself at the moment. According to the BMI charts that I find everywhere, if we're pretending that I'm 5'5 (which I might actually be, I haven't measured myself in forever), I should weigh 144 or less to be in the range of a healthy BMI. Last I weighed myself (that was a few days ago, before we got groceries finally, so I've probably gained a few pounds since), I was at 270. To give you an idea, I found a BMI chart that went far enough into morbidly obese to have my height/weight combination (that's actually kinda hard to find). I circled my weight and the BMI that that put me at. Enjoy.

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Yep. 45. My BMI is at 45. That means I am really fucking fat. If you could make a human being out of just fat, I could make one the same height as me, and still have her be a bit on the chubby side. Which is why I desperately need to lose weight. Also, my fiancee and I would like to start having kids eventually, and the heavier I am while pregnant, the more screwed those poor little fetuses are. And the fatter I am while pregnant, the fatter my kids are going to end up being. I don't want my kids to have to go through the crap I went through. So, exercise it is. And lots of it. Wish me luck. And comment a lot. Shame me if I haven't posted in awhile. Cheer me on when I do good. I could use all the help I can get. Thanks in advance.