Slow and steady..

Okay, so I know I have not posted in a while. Things have been busy and crazy and I cannot foresee them slowing down anytime soon. I have decided that I am going to start using this blog to track the progress/battle of my never ending weight loss. My whole life has been a constant fight to lose weight. Some may or may not know that right after high school I lost 120 pounds in 9 months. That's right 120 pounds. Unfortunately, I lost the weight too fast. My body went into shock. I was eating plenty, I was just working out 6 days a week and 2 hours a day. I lost the weight too fast. I then developed a heart condition called Vaso Depresser Syncope. I had put so much shock and stress on my heart that I started passing out. After seeing some doctors and running multiple tests this is what they told me had happened. So.. I was depressed. Here I was trying to make myself healthy, but in fact I made it worse. I stopped working out so much. Not only did I need to slow down, I was afraid I would pass out while working out. (Episodes are brought on by heat and other things.) Little by little the weight started to pile back on. So here I am.. almost 8 years later. Finally, I know I need to do this for myself. I want to have kids some day and I need to be healthy to have them and healthy to raise them.


So last Tuesday, the 7th. I joined weight waters. Some ladies from work already went and so I joined them. We went again this tuesday, and I lost 3lbs. in the first week! Wahoo! I think I can do it. I just need to take it easy. I know the slower it comes off the easier it is to keep it off. I also know this is a lifestyle change. Although I will not deprive myself from things I want or things I want to do.

So here goes nothing...What do I have to lose? Other than pounds??