A Little About Me Before You Read

I would like to preface this first passage with this; I am, in no way, shape, or form, a fitness guru. Hell, I wouldn’t go as far as to say I know anything about fitness – I am just taking a step towards a better me in…the easiest way I know how to. With some very sage advice from a coworker (who is doing this challenge with me) and some…hopefully well-placed optimism, I’m taking the next steps towards my fitness goals.

I will say, though, that this blog will not be the happiest place in the world. This isn’t going to be overly exciting, overly optimistic, or overly in-depth, but I can assure you it will be real. I am a real person, with real struggles, and real temptations which is perfectly fine! I want to discuss my failures in this as I have no way to grow if they’re not acknowledged. What I discuss in this blog is being treated like a personal “journey” diary….but maybe just a little more filtered as I am making it public (as anxious as that makes me). But what good becomes of us if we never face our fears?

Some of these posts will just be the generic stuff – what I meal prepped, what recipes I used, the supplements I bought and how they’re working, different variations of workouts that worked better for me, etc. The other posts, however, will be more…inspirational, if you will. More so along the lines of my mental pep-talks to get me through the workouts, thoughts I have on my journey, and probably some downer stories about struggling with not getting a pizza. Read what you like – but I promise you this; you will never have to read my life story to get to the recipe.

Now, with that rather lengthy preface out of the way, a little about me at the beginning of this challenge.

I would never say I’ve been “fit”. I was never a large kid, but I was very sedentary. When people were hanging out, going to parties, making memories, etc – I was usually inside reading a good book or playing video games. And that’s how I liked it! I’ve always been introverted – preferring the quiet of my own home to the music at a bar, or a small gathering of friends playing card games to a kegger off-campus.

Between getting older and coming into more sedentary desk jobs, I began to realize that my body wasn’t running the same anymore – I didn’t have the metabolism to slam an entire Little Caesars Hot-and-Ready and get away with it. And while that really stung because I love food – I didn’t do much about it. But this blog isn’t going to be focusing on where I went wrong, what I should have done better, blah blah blah…this blog is going to focus on the now. It is going to focus on where I am in the moment and where I’m going to be at the end of this. I want to focus on not just slimming down, but helping my body change to where I am confident and strong and feel the way I deserve to.

So, with that – I start this journey as 160.4 pounds at the towering height of 5’2″. I have been categorized as obese on the BMI scale. But I’m going to change that.

Welcome to my blog – I’m happy to have you along on this journey.