It has been a few weeks since I have written anything.  I have been feeling like a bit of a failure and  a hypocrite.  I have advised people in my life and others that read my blog on how to get healthier, how to get more active, and how to fight the battle of the [...]

I have been told for a while now that no one ever thought I was that overweight or that big.  I was going through old photos, today and came across a few that are a reminder of how big I was.  My own daughter and husband had dropped jaws and said they didn’t remember me [...]

With the end of the school year upon us, I have been running into a lot of people at the schools that I haven’t seen in a while.  Some of these people I haven’t seen since last school year.  I have had quite a few that were shocked to see my weight transformation.  It’s a [...]

I got outdoors for a run, today in this beautiful weather. I wasn’t sure I would have energy to even put my running shoes on, but I knew if I could just get them on, I would be in the mood to get out the door. I ran for almost a mile, which is farther [...]

 I started at my heaviest weight of 252 pounds on April 4, 2008.  I couldn’t believe that I had gone beyond 250 pounds.  That 2 behind the 5 might as well have just read 300 on the scale as far as I was concerned.  I was disgusted with myself.  I wasn’t just disgusted with the [...]