Danielle’s Journey

…I am tired of feeling fat and lazy.  It does not relate my personality in the least, because the truth is I am not a lazy person.  I am active in school, work and my church and over the past four years I have somehow let 45 extra pounds creep their way onto my body.  Someone once told me, “When you stop worrying about yourself, you start to show it.”  Obviously this is true of me…I spend so much time worrying about everything else going on in my life, that I often forget “I” am important to.

There is always some excuse…a brief, yet somehow, personally satisfying excuse I give myself every time I eat something I should not or do not go to the gym.   I always think “I will do it later” or “it is just one scoop of ice cream, what difference will it really make?”  The obvious answer is 45 extra pounds on my 5 foot 3 inch frame.  I remember being slimmer and how happy I was.  I want that back…I need help and support.  I am not a very good self motivator…I need someone pushing me to succeed…so hopefully joining this community will be my saving grace.  Hopefully I can get back to feeling like the old me…not the fat and lazy new me.