I have always wanted to use this blog to talk about my journey with morbid obesity. In theory that shouldn’t be a hard thing to do, I have never really been a private person. I am on the introverted side, I am prone to sensory overload and tend to avoid large groups of people. But I don’t think you could accuse me of being private. I am easily the queen of too-much-information. And all those sayings about wearing ones heart on their sleeve, being an open book, and never met a stranger could all apply to me to some extent. People can ask me anything (even my humiliating and painful junk) from the word GO and I wouldn’t be offended and I’d probably tell them too, actually, mostly folks don’t even have to ask.
All I can really say about the fact that it’s nearly a year and a half later and I’m still not blogging on one of my main intended topics is I just can’t seem to find the right starting point. I guess I’m afraid I don’t really have anything to say that a zillion other people are not already saying better anyway.
But I’m in extremely good spirits today and feeling a little sassy so I might as well give it a shot.
I started my weight loss journey in June of 1999, I was twenty-nine years old and pretty broken. My worst fears had come true: My body was a freight train out of my control, I was nearly 260 pounds and there was no end insight. I was well on my way to eating myself into oblivion. The day I stepped on to the scale and saw 258.5 I hit bottom. I didn’t know how, but I knew I was never going to let that scale read 260. Ever.
What started out thirteen years ago as yet another attempt to get skinny has turned into so much more for me over time. One blog post couldn’t cover everything that I’ve done in these past thirteen years to overcome my fat problem. My weight has been up and down the scale; as high as 258.5 as low as 155 but I have never seen 260.
I started out at Twenty-nine with Richard Simmons and TaeBo and now I’m forty-one Crossfitting and exploring the world of athletic competition. In the past two years I have competed in: two State Olympic weightlifting events, one Crossfit Open, four NASA Powerlifting meets and most recently two Indoor Rowing meets. I’ve also done two Warrior Dash’s…Dashes…Dashi….anyway…which were a blast but more just me seeing if I could survive a notion to be insane for a day.
Which brings me to Twenty Weeks.
In 2002 I discovered David Greenwalt’s Leanness Lifestyle. Up until I discovered my Crossfit gym, he and his program had been what I saw as the sanest and best way to deal with fat loss.
David is currently running one of his virtual body transformation Boot Camps. I have been in a number of them, but this is the longest running one yet. All my previous camps have been 7-8 week camps, all very time consuming and demanding.
I have moments I wish I wouldn’t have joined up, but I can do anything for 20 weeks.
I’m not sure how I’m going to blog about this over the next twenty weeks, there’s not a plan at this point. But here is my newest pre- Boot Camp before picture.
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