I started my weight loss journey because of these two pictures.
It was May of 2011. My roommate at the time had just turned 30. We had a huge weekend the bar Friday night, house party on Saturday and a twins game on Sunday.
I remember being at the bar on Friday night and my roommate got wasted. He was talking about being 30 and wasting so much time and he thought he would have been in a different place in life and so on. As the weekend went on, I kept thinking.
It was still a couple of month until my 30th birthday as well. And truth be told, I was miserable. I smoked two packs of cigarettes a day, I ate like
A cow, I got no exercise and I was sore all the time. I remember going to the twins game that Sunday and not wanting to drink anything because I was so tired and sore, I didn't want to go up the stairs to use the bathroom. No joke, I was to that level.
After his birthday weekend was over I posted all the pictures I took on facebook. As I was tagging people in the pictures, I stopped at the two posted on this blog. I looked terrible. I looked like I was miserable. It was no joke like I was looking into my own eyes and like telling myself to help myself. Time to face reality, I was 29, almost 300lbs, smoking like a chimney, not healthy at all and I was miserable.
I called Sam that night and just let it all out. After a 2-3 hour conversation, we both decided we were going to quit smoking and join weight watchers. This was on a Sunday night. By that Wednesday I quit smoking and I joined weight watchers that Friday.
***I have to say looking at the pictures from May 2011 and really thinking about why I started this journey is helping me. I can remember how I felt. I can remember the pain. I can feel the miserably. I can still see the looks people used to give me. And let me tell you, I never want to see or feel that way or look that way EVER again.
