Yesterday It Was Spring, Today It's Summer

So if you don't live in Michigan, you don't know what the weather is like here. So I thought I would share. We've basically gone from winter to spring to summer all in about 3 days. This time last week it was a high of 46 degrees, last Tuesday 47 degrees, last Thursday 59 degrees, and yesterday it was 55 degrees. You could say that the weather was still in the mists of changing from winter to spring and I'm pretty sure some people up north still had snow on the ground. Today though, this all changed. Mother nature decided that today was a good day to give us summer. It's 68 degrees right now and it's only 12:00 p.m. They say that there is a high of 81 degrees. 81! I'm not prepared for this type of weather yet. Okay, okay, I know I shouldn't be complaining but hey, I like the winter....sometimes. Well lets put it this way, I like the winter because I can cover up all my fat with baggy clothes. There I said it. Haha. So no I'm not prepared to show off my still fat body after I told myself that this was going to be my year, the year, that I was finally going to lose weight. I've been saying this since Sophomore year of High School (2007) and instead of losing weight I've gained weight. In the past three years I've gained 20 lbs. Which I know isn't bad..could be worse...but for me it's a lot. Back in 2008 I weighed 160 lbs. and now three years later I weigh 180 lbs. (I'm only 5'1" so according to my BMI I'm obese...great). So this past January I told myself to get my butt on the treadmill (that was just wasting space in our apartment) and lose the weight. And I did....for about two months. Then I got sick of working out and dieting and not losing the weight that I wanted to. In the two months of working out I only lost 5 lbs. And hey, that should be good right? Wrong! I am the most impatient girl ever and I wanted that weight to just shed off my body. I got tired of hearing everyone else's weight loss numbers (a lot of my friends on Facebook also had the New Year's resolution and they were losing 10 pounds in a month) and so I stopped.

I guess I should get to the point of this very long (and probably boring) post now. The point is is that it's summer here in Michigan now apparently and I don't want to spend another summer wearing jeans or wrapped up in a towel on the beach when I should be in shorts and a bikini.

Back in Sophomore year when I was on yet another kick to lose weight, my sister was in college and found out about Weight Watchers. So far it has been the one thing that has really worked for me. I was losing weight and I realize now that I needed to exercise as well. When I was in High School, I didn't really have the time to...and not having a car didn't really help either. I couldn't just stay late after class and workout.

So now I'm going to try yet again to lose this weight with the help of Weight Watchers. I got re-inspired when I read Tikea's experience over at Selective Potential of her own weight loss journey and how Weight Watchers helped her to achieve her goal.

My goal right now is to lose 60 lbs. to bring me down to 120. I have no idea what I will look like when I am that size (I've never been that skinny in my teenage life) so right now it's just a goal to keep me motivated. If I get down to 130 and I'm happy, then so be it. I'm not worried about the number that I see on the scale (as long as it is in the range of a healthy BMI, 106-130) I just want to look myself in the mirror and be happy with the reflection.

Getting down to 120 isn't going to be easy. It's going to be long, hard, and frustrating. The average person loses 1-2 pounds a week so it's going to take me at least a half a year to do it (if I lose 2 pounds a week), but I know from past experience that it's probably going to be longer...more like a year. And I'm okay with that, I want to take it slow this time, and I want to do it the healthy way. I've faced the truth that the pounds aren't going to just come right off and if I have a month where I only lose 2 lbs. it's okay, I just need to stick with it and maybe increase my time.

I'll keep you guys updated along the way with a post every other month or when I reach a rounded number (like 20 lbs. gone! or 25 lbs. gone!).

This is what I would like to look like...

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