New Year, New Beginning!!

I wonder what the statistics are for people who start weight loss blogs at the beginning of the New Year. I guess an even better question would be how many people actually follow through with their weight loss goals/blog. This year is my year though, I’m gonna make it happen… even if it kills me!!Hi my name is Yvonne, I’m 28 years old and I live in beautiful Huntington Beach, California. I have a 7 year old daughter named Tabitha and that’s where all of my fat came from!! I’m 5 foot 1 and I have pretty much weighed 120 pounds my whole life. When I became pregnant with my daughter I went from 120 pounds to 196 pounds. Shortly after the delivery of my daughter, my gf who was a trainer promised to help get me back into shape. From July 2004 – November 2004 I worked my ass off 4 days a week and ate a fairly simple diet, I dropped to 154 pounds. Then in February 2005 I moved to Maine and packed on about 20 pounds. Once the snow melted and I met some new people I stated working out at the gym on the navy base. I dropped back down to 162-ish. When we moved back to huntington beach I started working full time and found myself with zero time to diet and exercise. And to tell you the truth I didn’t care. I’ve always had the attitude of well “If you ain't gonna fuck me now, you ain't gonna fuck me later” and went back up to 185-ish!! My friends and I go on an annual camping trip every year. To get down to the water its about a 5 minute steep hike. Last year I barely made it back up the mountain. Friend groups of 4 or 5 kept passing me by on the trail and by the time I finally made it to the top I just about passed out from exhaustion. I thought to myself “I’m only 28 years old… this is just fucking ridiculous!” but yet I still didn’t do anything about it! But after the last two years of being the fat girl in my friend group I’m sick of it and ready to shed the pounds. I have already lost about 7 to 8 pounds from no longer drinking alcohol and almost completely cutting out fast food. The routine I’m on now has been working great for me because “I’m lazy and don't lile working out” but if I really want to see a difference and start shedding the pounds I need to get my but in gear. Last night I received a call from my parent’s stating that they are going to join Weight Watchers and my dad offered to pay for my membership. Here’s the only catch, for every week I go over and don’t lose weight I have to pay him the money for the membership. To me this is a pretty good motivater since I’m always broke. So why the blog? Why share hideous looking fat pictures of myself along with all of my struggles with food. Why risk letting the world see me at my worst and also maybe witnessing my failure? Recently I joined the website called Pinterest and under their fitness category they have tons of before and after picture of people just like you and me. I’m hoping that by sharing my struggles and triumph that I will be able to help out women like myself with body issues all over the internet. Plus I know how my mind works, if I feel like there are people watching my progress and reading my updates that it will give me more motivation to not give up on my goal. As of right not I’m 5 foot 1 inches and I weigh 175.6 pounds and my goal weight is 140 by June. My birthday is June 12th and what better gift could I give myself than to look smoking hot in a bathing suit for the first time since I was 18! So that's 35.6 pounds in roughly 6 months. I’m not quite sure how often I’m going to update this blog but I would like to share before, after and progress photo's. My favorite recipes from weight watchers and an exercise type journal to keep track of my progress. I’m sure I’m going to have posts where im down 2 pounds and feeling great but I will also have posts where I cheated on my diet, feel fat and want to give up. I want to share all of these experiences with you, my audience and maybe just maybe i'll be one of those pins on Pinterest one day. And If I am I will have a Blog to link to the picture to encourage other woman like myself and let them know how I lost the weight!! I will upload my fat pics when I get back from my meeting at Weight Watchers tonight along with a new post about the meeting!! XOXO YG