Joy

So, another month has past....and I am VERY happy to report that I have successfully started to shed some pounds. I am, as of this morning....... 212.7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is 27.2lb of fat lost!

Its hard to believe really, I am very pleased with my progress thus far.

I know in my last post I said I wanted to be at a total weight loss of 20lbs by Vegas... but seeing as I have shoot past that goal (one I didn't remember setting until I looked back on this blog) i am now shooting for a total weight loss of 30lbs by Vegas. that is just 3 lbs from where I am now... I think I can make it...

Its funny and a little sad, I drop weight consistently when I am here at home, eating the food that I have cautiously picked out for myself to eat. When I go to my parents house.... which has been happening about once a week, I stall! Its frustrating because I enjoy spending time there, but the food my Mom buys is just not the greatest....

I cant help but feel that if I had better foods and better health education growing up, I wouldn't be were I am am today with my weight. Don't get me wrong, we didn't eat fast foods everyday and we had well rounded meals.... but I would just eat and eat and eat, without any knowledge of what I was doing to my body....and once I was old enough to go out on my own.... well that didn't help...

I am the heaviest of my 2 other siblings. My younger brother is a good looking dude and in pretty good shape. My old sister is the skinniest healthiest person I know...she took to being a vegetarian and exercising compulsively...she had a smaller body to begin with....

I took up playing soccer when I was able 10 and played AYSO, club and 3 years of high school soccer. Only 3 because in my senior year, I got mono....and I got it bad... The doctor wouldn't let me exercise....not even on a stationary bike...for 7 months. I gained 25 pounds in that time... and until about 2 years ago, I had not played soccer.

Soccer is what keeps me going these days...I feel my body getting upset with me when I do not play on a regular bases. I have a really bad ankle issue... I broke it 2 years ago, without knowing... and have sense rolled in 7 times. Mostly playing soccer, but once just stepping off a curb..haha I rolled my ankle in game 2 last Monday...Its only been a week, but I am craving exercise....How did I survive all those years with out regular, hard core exercise? I am going to try playing tonight...Its our first night with a new team on a new, larger indoor field.... we will see how I do. I am just desperate to exercise before I leave for Vegas.... A week of drinking by the pool...no soccer....and no registered gym on the property..... Arg

Wish me luck!