My Weight Loss Journey

Since late college I have always battled with my weight. About 8 years ago I had lost about 75lbs but due to some losses in our family and some other personal issues I ended up putting it all back on sadly. I am ready to get the ball rolling again as I need to for my health and just overall wellbeing as I felt great and had so much energy and I want all of that back. Of course our new puppies ate the charger to my Peloton Bike but the new one is arriving any day and I am going to get going with it again. We also moved into our first home just under two years ago and it’s further out of town so our normal dog walking routes have gone away. We live right on a busy road and it’s nerve racking walking four dogs on it. However, our neighbors driveway joins up with the local ATV trails and we just got permission to use that so next year we’ll be able to get back to our 4-6 mile daily walks. We have 23 acres of land but most of it is marshy woods or potato fields that we lease out for farming and it’s hard to walk sadly. It’s gorgeous when you get way out as you feel like you are in the middle of no where. However, we bought snowshoes last year and once the snow fall we plan to start snowshoeing with the dogs which will be a great workout. Add that in to riding my bike inside and I should have plenty of chances to burn calories.

My eating habits haven’t been great but not as bad as they used to be, one of the advantages of getting older is I can’t eat as much as I used to..lol. That will definitely work in my favor. I just feel like I need a little extra to help with the weight loss so I am going to be posting weekly updates in here. My starting weight last time was 265lbs and I got down to 190lbs and that is pretty my goal this time! If there are enough of us pursuing weight-loss I’ll create a group for us so we can really do this journey together!! Last time I started about this time of year and I hit the goal by middle of the following summer so my goal this time would be to hit it by the time we start school back up in late summer!!