Blogging My Weight Loss

I get several of e-mails like this one on a daily basis — I read every single one and once I find the time, I reply.  If you’ve written me and haven’t received anything back yet… don’t worry, it’s coming.

This is one of the reasons I’m blogging my weight loss journey.

Tyler,

I’m sure you get a lot of these emails, but I just wanted to thank you for posting your weight loss experience. You’ve inspired me to be more aware of what I eat and how active I am (or more accurately, how inactive I am). You’ve shown me that I can still have pizza and cake once in a while, as long as I incorporate more fruits, veggies, and other healthy alternatives into my day-to-day diet. I keep an eye on calories, but I allow myself to have a couple tacos for dinner if I want. It’s nice to not feel like I’m restricted on a typical diet.

Though my weight loss goals are much smaller than yours right now, I too have struggled with my weight throughout my life. Just when I had achieved a body and a lifestyle that I was happy with, I met my current fiance, and nothing makes you gain weight faster than a comfortable relationship. Bigger and bigger I grew as fewer and fewer of my clothes fit. I hate that I now have to “dance” into my jeans every morning because I have grown a bit too big for them.

I tried lots of fad diets, but of course none of them worked. Then I found your blog through consumerist.com, and it was like a lightbulb went on in my brain. Why can’t I just eat better, excise more, and allow myself some not-so-healthy foods once in a while? When I read that your wife was expecting, and that your future child was one of your motivators, my mind was made up. My fiance and I often talk about having a child, and if I’m going to be the one carrying it around for 9 months, I need to have a body that’s healthy and ready to do it. If I stopped living off sweets and carbs, and got used to eating fruits and veggies now, it wouldn’t be as hard once I was pregnant, it would just be HABIT.

So, again, I really want to thank you for posting your experiences and showing the rest of us that there is a way for the average person to lose weight without losing their minds.

-Kate
Age 24

It’s e-mails and comments like these that make me push myself everyday.

Thanks, Kate.