My little Bit of Honey

Losing weight is crazy hard, staying on track can be nearly impossible if you aren't 100% committed. I'd be lying if I said I have this down pat, I don't. I really, really don't. I've been working at this for 2 years now and I still have no idea what I'm doing, but I keep working on it. I keep going and I keep trying. I use a lot of tools to get this done, because mainly I can't do this on my own. So, for this post I'll go further into details about the tools I use, in no particular order! Number 1: MyFitnessPal. This was the one thing that has really kept me going and kept me on track. I use the site and I use the app, the site is a little easier, but the app is convenient because I always have access to it. I've got a 184 day streak going right now, to be fair, I haven't logged every day for 185 days but I'm working on that. Number 2: Pinterest. Seriously, Pinterest has been so helpful.. I find healthy meals that I can eat and my family...

*bzzz bzzz bzzzz*  "No, please, No" My Fitbit alarm buzzed on my arm telling me that it was already 4am. Time to get up. I got up and stumbled my way into the bathroom and turned the light on (ouch..too bright) and started to think of the excuses I could use to be able to go back to bed. The excuses that I wouldn't feel bad about later.. "I didn't sleep well" that one is true, but I did sleep. "I feel sick" that one isn't true, I felt fine other than being tired. So I ran out of excuses and realized that if I didn't get up and go, I'd be miserable later and mad that I skipped my run. I'd be continuing the spiral I had been on the last few weeks and wouldn't be back on track. I'd fall back to where I was before and I'd put weight back on. So, I got dressed, put my contacts in and was out the door. Drove the 45 minutes to my office park, parked my car and sat for about 2 minutes. Still trying to talk myself out of it, comp...

When I was in high school and even in my early/mid 20s I had one ambition in relation to my body: I wanted to be skinny. I didn't care how I got there, I just wanted to be small and skinny, wanted to be just like the other girls in my high school who could fit into a size 0 or size 2. It was my DREAM. Now, I was not fat in high school, I always weighed somewhere in the mid-high 140s (which for my frame works)but I always felt that I was bigger than the other girls and it was hard. I didn't see the other girls that were my size and were perfectly healthy (like I was). Nope.. I saw the "popular" girls who were small and wore barely there clothes and could get away with it. I've always had eh hm curves and I just wanted them to go away. When I graduated high school, I wasn't walking 4 miles every day so I definitely gained a good amount of weight and that was hard.. so I started with the yo yo dieting. Let me tell you, I tried everything to be skinny. I tried die...

The last few weeks have been very..chaotic to say the least. We sold a house/bought a house and moved into said house all in the same day (or two days rather) so life has been a bit..unsettled to say the least. I haven't run in over a week so that's been rough as well, this week I'm settling into a new routine and getting back on the right path. During all of this, I finished up my 30 day challenge. I weighed in on Saturday morning and my final weight loss total was: 8lbs. I am into the 150s, which I haven't seen in quite a long time and I have 24lbs to go until I hit my goal and I have lost a total of 32.2lbs. I am focused and I am ready to tackle the last 24lbs and get back to where I feel comfortable and back to being happy with my body.  So, what now? How do I proceed?  Well I've been really thinking about it and I think I'll do another 30 day challenge. Today is May 10th so the next time I will weigh in, will be June 10th.  My original goal in all of this...