She Believed She Could, So She Did.

This is the place I go to with my accomplishments, failures, obstacles, and successes. I come here for motivation. I come here for strength. This is me. This is my journey. SW: 254 CW: 207 GOAL: 199 Ultimate Goal: 155

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‘How does one become a butterfly?’ she asked. 'You must want to learn to fly so badly that you are willing to give up being a catipillar.’

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I used to be a big baby.

I'm sitting here reading through my posts to try to get a gage of when I last weighed what I do now- and I was a big baby. I WANTED to change, but not enough to give up McDonald's, or push myself to run longer than a few minutes. It's really sad, and oddly motivated. I started this year off at 235. As of today, I am now at 206.6. I commited to the ketogenic way of life, and started running a mile every day for a month. I am proud to say I can now run a mile without stopping, and I weigh less than I EVER have since starting this blog four years ago. And I'm not stopping, either.

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I got to change my CW again today.

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I haven't posted in a while-

And I finally got to change my "current weight" in my bio. I have been doing the ketogenic diet without cheats for 34 days now. I started at 230 on the first day, and am now at 217. I'm so excited to get to my goal weight.

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SUGAR IS AN ADDICTION.

I am learning this. You hear people say that, and you're like "yeah, you're right." But it's the feeling that you NEED it. It's cutting it out of your diet for a good three weeks, and then telling yourself I'll just take one little bite. Then the next thing you know, you wake up with chocolate wrappers and ice cream cartons all around you. I'm making this seem funny, and it's not. It's really getting me down. You think you can quit, that it's just food. It's not. It's a drug as much as cocaine. It's an upper as much as tequila. I need it, like a junkie needs his fix. It's ridiculous. I really want to quit.

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Ketogenic mug cake. Not too shabby if you are in NEED of cake. :)

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October 23, 2016 | October 3, 2015. A little over a year difference. I still have a LONG way to go.

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This is where I started- some of these aren’t too long ago. I get discouraged because I don’t feel like I see progress- that I don’t look smaller than I was. But the fact is, I now am in the 220s, and most of these pictures I was in the 240s.

[letsdofitness]

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I didn't know what fear felt like until I tried to do box jumps last night.

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One of the biggest de-motivators for those on a massive weight loss journey or those who are significantly overweight isn’t the exercise or the eating its just knowing your journey is going to be unbelievably long. 

Its not going to be a 30-day-to fit and skinny thing, Its a 2-3 years of daily regimented eating, changing a lifetime of bad habits, habits that other people do not understand or care to empathise with. Its the probability of excess skin that you cant afford to remove. 

2-3 years of self sabotage, hormones and mood swings, sabotage by those in your life who think its funny to see you fail. Its not one dress size down, its 5-10 dress sizes down. Its expensive, its exhausting, its physically painful doing thing at your biggest that appears easy to other people. You get waves of support, jealousy, suspicion, judgement…. for 2-3 years

So yeah, “just eat healthy and everything will be fine!”….. yes it will be, but please don’t forget the length of our journey ahead can be massively overwhelming. 

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Exactly this. When sometimes you struggle to see the scales shift two pounds, it’s tough. But when you know you need another 50plus on top of that, it’s so disheartening it would be easy to give up. Tumblr love for all the blogs that inspire me to keep going, even though I’m nowhere near success yet!

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We got this!!! 💗💗💗

[mifitnessjourney]

i needed to hear this today

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