About Me

Where do I begin?  Okay, I’m a 26 year old living in Wisconsin.  I’ve lived here all my life – yes, you are allowed to feel bad for me.  Don’t get me wrong, Wisconsin is GREAT!  BUT….COLD! 

Anyway, I’ve had quite the journey with food over the past 10 years.   In college, I gained the “Freshman 15″…and then some!  I ended up gaining about 40 pounds overall, ending up at my highest weight of 159.  I’m only 5′2″ so it was quite a bit of extra weight on my small frame.  I joined Weight Watchers and lost about 30 pounds.  I then “quit” and gained some back.  About a year before our wedding in 2004, I joined Weight Watchers online and again had success.  I got married at about 117 pounds and was very happy at that weight.  After that, I s-l-o-w-l-y gained back about 13 pounds and am now struggling (but TRYING!) to lose those. 

In between, I’ve also went through various exercise phases.  Initially when I lost my weight through WW, I was a walker….That’s all I did but I did LOTS of it!  Then I tried going with no exercise, then obsessively exercising, then none….you get the idea!  Now I’m somewhere in the middle – I exercise a lot, but also know that my body needs breaks now and then.

I now have a very different approach to my “DIET” and am trying to do it in a very healthy, whole food sort of way, not just eat the lowest calorie food to lose weight.  I started a blog to not only hold myself accountable (I’ve struggled with binging, boredom eating, etc for years now) but to also hopefully help others through a weight struggle, or even just to pass on some good food ideas   I go back and forth between counting WW Points, and calories…sometimes I’ll do both!  (Lucky you!!)