Yes, this is happening

"Nobody wants to hear about your workout." 

"What if I told you you didn't have to make a post every time you went to the gym."

"An Atheist, a vegan, and a crossfitter walk into a bar. I only know this because they told everyone within two minutes."

So, this is crap you'll see all over social media these days. It's cool to post about your Netflix binging, which trust me, I do, but someone posts about their fitness and diet accomplishments and people just try to shut it down. I could probably successfully dive into the psychological reasons why this is, but I'm going to skip all of that and just say to these people:

Suck it.

 I can almost guarantee that none of those people are posting those things for you. Having been in this place and made this journey before, I can tell you that getting your body healthy and keeping it that way takes a lot of hard work and focus. When people do things like make status updates, tweets, IG posts, and blogs about their hard work it's their way of keeping their mind focused, and you definitely don't have to read it or be interested in it, but don't be an ass and bash it. This shit is hard. Don't be a dick.

So with all of that being said, I guess I'll continue this intro with a little about me and my weight and fitness stats today, and hopefully in 357 days I can look back at this and go damn, I fucking kicked my body's ass. We'll see.

I am a 28 year old mother of 3 children ages 10, 3, and 1. About 3 years ago I went from around 270lbs to 183lbs by counting calories and working out. In that time I've moved 3 times (husband's work), had 1 baby, quit a 10+year smoking habit, and managed to gain almost every last bit of that weight back. But I'm not going to start talking about all of my self frustration and disappointment I have because of that, just gotta let that go and get back to it. So here's my weight and measurements:

Weight: 255

Chest: 47

Natural (high)Waist: 41

Low waist:49

Hips: 52

Rarm: 15.5

Larm: 15

Rthigh (upper): 29.5

Lthigh (upper): 29.5

Rcalf: 17.5 

Lcalf: 17

*Pics added later*

For fitness I'm trying to get back into running which is what I did the first time I lost weight, and lifting. Right now I'm running at the gym and doing the online Bikini Body Mommy challenge (on day 5). Yesterday I did a 5k on the treadmill to get my starting average time:

I've got a ways to go to get to that >10min mile I was at, but I'm ok with this start time. The base where we live puts on a 5k every couple of months and one of my goals is to do every single one, the first one is on the 21st so we'll see how much I improve by then and compare each run. 

So that's it, my embarrassingly bare all first weightloss blog post, completed by me, for me. And if you happen to get something from it as well, fantastic. If you're on this journey too, we've got this.