First Goal Achieved!!

I know this may seem like a small win to some but it’s really big for me!

This is the first time I have weighed under 230 since October of 2020!

This is also my lowest recorded weight since I started tracking my weight in October of 2014!!

This is a major major win for me and I am so very happy about it!

I tried to take side by side pics but it’s still a minimal difference at least to me. Maybe I’ll have to take a pic in the same outfit from my front page and see if anyone reading this can see the difference.

I can feel some difference though, I’m not always hungry anymore, and I have some core strength! I had absolutely no core strength before so even a little is a major improvement.

I think I really owe all of this to my sports group.

I joined to have fun and realised that it was actually fun, being active was actually fun! I had always been a little afraid or intimidated by activity, afraid I’d get tired or that I wouldn’t be able to keep up.

So when I saw a group called Lazy Sports and Fitness I thought, finally! I can play tennis meet some new people, have fun, and not worry about if I could keep up.

To my own surprise I could keep up, and I pushed past keeping up, and started being really active.

I really started focusing on things mid September, we’d play tennis and other sports twice a week and I just kept feeling better and better.

Then in November our sports group had slowed down due to the cold and the dark and I was afraid of being inactive again.

Then came an opportunity, kickboxing.

It’s a 40 minute drive and expensive, but they had a trial month for cheap so I tried it.

I loved it.

It’s a great workout, and it’s fun!

As November came to a close and the promotion was up I was again afraid that if I couldn’t afford kickboxing, and my sports group was on pause due to cold, that I might back slide.

So I sat down and went through my finances, I talked to my family. Instead of Christmas gifts they agreed to give me money to help pay for kickboxing. It was such a wonderful gesture and I’m so happy that the people around me chose to support me in this way.

Because now it’s mid December, I do kickboxing 3 times a week, I drink as much water as I can, and try to eat lots of protein. And now I’m at my lowest recorded weight!

I know its going to be work to keep going but I’m really happy with how far I’ve come. I think at the end of this month it will also be the longest I have consecutively kept up a workout routine.

The 40 minute drive when snow hits will be hard but I’m sure I’ll be able to figure something out. I’m determined to not lose my progress this time.

I’m also glad I started this blog, to see the ups and downs, the luls between posts. It’s all a part of the journey, and I can’t wait to see what’s next.