Dieting & Weight Loss

I am.....180 pounds. I hate saying that. 

When I graduated high school, I was 130 pounds. 

I've never been active or athletic. I really just don't have the rhythm, drive, balance or really anything for sports. 

I know I started to gain weight when I was a cell phone tech. Something about sitting for 90% of my day (verses standing at my previous jobs) will do that to you. 

But where I gained majority of my weight... 

I had a sinus surgery. And I horrible doctor. I will spare you the details, but in a short story, my thyroid got jacked up. 

The sugery was in September of 2008. Finally, in early 2013, my thyroid regulated itself enough for me to come off of medicine! 

Now, I was still 180 pounds. But I had tried so many things to lose weight. I'm not at all saying that my thyroid was 100% to blame, because it wasn't. I would start a "diet" & then a month or so in, give up because I wasn't seeing results. 

As for exercising, I am majorly out of shape. When I say majorly, I mean it. My heart rate will go sky high at a slow 3.0 MPH walk on the treadmill. 

Anyways, with all of these diets and exercising that I would start, I would get frustrated and give up. Even with my reward to myself, if I completed my goal (which I never did), I would fail. My reward was always something like "looking pretty", or "being sexy" or even "being that highschool weight again" my goal was always 130 pounds. 

So now I have a new plan: 

Learn to love myself, while trying to lose weight. Not focusing on the number of pounds I weigh, but rather the number of inches that I lose.  Learn that I am beautiful and sexy and loved, regardless of what I look like. 

Here is my new goal: 

Try to get down to 145 pounds. 

Once at 145 pounds, evaluate where I am at. 

Be a healthy 5-7 jean size, regardless of what my weight is. 

My reward is going to be something that I want, and have wanted for a really long time. Just as much as I have wanted to lose this weight. 

My reward will be LASIK eye surgery. 

I must be a 5-7 jean size by November 8, 2014 (my 26th birthday!) in order to cash in on my reward! 

Now, I'm also doing something else different with this too! 

To keep my reward  at the forefront of my mind, I am going to make a piggy bank! I will put my allowances (my husband and I each get a set amount each paycheck to so whatever we want with) in it, as well as any donations that people pitch in! 

I plan on writing my goal on the piggy bank. 

Im not giving out details now, but I'll show you the before picture of what it looks like currently. 

Well, that's all you're getting for now! 

Xo Danielle oX