From Fat to Fit

This is my journey from the person I was before to the person I am destined to become. This will be everything in life from weightloss and weightloss struggles to advice and life in general, and everything in between.  

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Day 1/75

Done.

For those that don't know 75 Hard is a challenge where you go 75 days following a strict set of tasks and accomplishing them daily. The tasks are:

Choose a diet, and stick with it (NO cheat meals and NO alcohol) Drink 1 gallon of water a day Workout twice a day, 45 minute workouts (one of which MUST be outside) Take a progress picture Read 10 pages of a self help/improvement book

This is to test your mental grit and help strengthen your self discipline.

Until next time.

--ME

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Today was 4 miles in 1.5 hours. Not too bad with just walking. I did about 20 min walks the last few days as well. Haven't skipped a day since I started Wednesday 7/9/2025.

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Today was day 2 of walking/jogging. I went a little further today. Almost missed it completely due to sleeping thru one alarm, haha. Luckily, I have multiple alarms for instances like that.

Later, after work, I'll go down and do something with weights. Haven't decided what just yet. But I'll go down and do something. We have a home gym in the basement. And its been a minute since I last used it.

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Day 1- I was challenged by my sister to try tonget 1 mile in under 20 minutes. I reached it in 19 minutes. But since I wasn't home yet I had to finish my walk. Ended up 1.05 in 20 minutes. Tomorrow I'll try again.

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All the things to be grateful for:

Today's entry is the top 10 things I am grateful for.

1. My health

2. My husband who works endlessly to make sure we have everything we need to live. Not just survive.

3. My daughter. She has seizures but nothing big and they've been under control for almost 4 years now. Otherwise she is amazing, healthy, super smart (sometimes too smart haha) and I couldn't ask for a better daughter.

4. My amazing job. Its legit my dream job. I'm a Medical Coder. I don't have to talk on the phone. I work from home. And I get PTO. As well as have flexible hours. There's nothing I would change.

5. My house. My husband pays for it and keeps it up to date. Its an awesome place and in a wonderful little piece of the world.

6. The fact we can afford two new cars.

7. My wonderful dad. He more or less raised us after mom left and we had a horrible step mom.

8. My mom. She taught me of the type of mom I didn't want to be. She was fun and everything. But she wasn't a mom. She has since passed. So I'm thankful for the lessons she did teach without knowing it.

9. My awesome siblings. We fought like any other siblings do. But I have no idea where I'd be without them. Or worse who I'd be without them.

10. Everybody thay had a hand in making me Who I am today. Whether it was good or bad influences. They all shaped me into the person I am today. And as much as I would have preferred never going thru what I went thru I can't bead at who I am now. Because I'm raising the best, take no crap, but be kind type of women I should have been. I'm married to a great, hard working man that just takes me as I am without putting me down or trying to change me. And I'm living my dream life. The only thing missing is my smoking hot body and at the moment that is under construction. I'll try to remember to do an updated grateful list this time next year.

Until then,

ME

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Another post

This is to help me with accountability and productivity. I hope. Today marks day 16 of being back on Weight Watchers. I started a few days before my cruise, May 16th. I know that wasn't the best time to start, but that was when I learned about WW and actually did some research on it, so I wanted to start then and there to see how it all worked. Since starting back I've lost the 8 lbs I gained on the cruise. Then "gained" 4 back over the weekend due to not drinking enough water and deciding I could overdo it. I won't be making that mistake again, that's for sure. It's all part of the process, part of the learning when enough is enough. So, since I've started this weigh loss journey in December 2024, I've officially lost 14 lbs, I lost 21 since then, but I did gain some back, due to being inconsistent. That was just another lesson to learn but I've been learning a lot, and I am happy to say I've been applying all I've learned every day. I have goals, plans, and a future to attend.

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This weekend

This weekend was a bit of a veer off my path to a better me, but it's not going to bring me down. I choose to be better and do better, so back at it tomorrow because you can only fail, if you quit. And I am NOT a quitter. I have goals, I have a future, I have to be better. Because there's no room for staying where I'm at and I don't feel like being this version of me any longer. So, here's to tomorrow and the future me, I aim to be.

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Future goals

I am putting this out there for the universe to know my plans. One year from today, I will be my goal weight. I will be continuing to work on me, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I will become the ideal version of me that right now me would be proud of. I will heal my inner child that should never have gone through what she had gone through. I will look in the mirror and be proud, my outside self will match my inside self. And I will be at peace.

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6/2/2025

Today's to do is to write another journal entry from a prompt, but I won't need a prompt today. I'll be writing from my head, I have a lot of goals I want to achieve, some days are harder than others. But I have a lot I want to do. Taking it day by day, the most important one that I believe will take the longest and be the hardest to achieve is the people pleasing. Always worrying about what I say and how I say it being perceived as wrong or always tiptoeing on eggshells hoping I don't say the wrong thing. It's crazy because this is with people I've known my entire life. And I still always worry about scaring them off or that they will leave one day. I'm not sure what I'd do if they did.

These thoughts are apparently always in the back of my mind, but every so often they make their way to the front and that's all I think about for days. It's not fun and I don't like it. If anyone actually reads this and has some insight on what I can do to achieve getting over this feeling. Please let me know.

Until next time, ME

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What am I grateful for?

Understanding friends.

Understanding and helpful husband, whom I've been married to for 16 years.

A healthy and amazing kid.

A wonderful job that allows me so much freedom.

The ability to be able to afford things I need and want.

My brand new Jeep Renegade Trailhawk.

The not wanting/needing for anything.

My awesome family.

Life in general.

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Another day of posting to mark off my list.

Today I will re-introduce myself. My name is Cecilia. I am a medical coder out of Missouri. I have a daughter that'll be 13 in a few months and have been married for 16 years. I'm taking it day by day and working towards my goals. My last goal to achieve is losing weight and working on my dream body and physical goals. One of these days I'll update that as it happens. And I hope its soon enough, but I'm trying not to focus on how long it'll take. And just enjoy the journey.

Until next time,

ME

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I've been trying to be more mindful in my everyday life. I've been spending time on the fetch app. Today was write a blog post so I can become more accountable in my endeavors. So, this is my blog post. The idea of this is to become more open with who I am. What better way than to randomly post to a bunch of strangers that may or may not read it?

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A letter to my future self

Dear Me,

By the time you read this you will be at your goal weight, you will be achieving a bunch of physical goals, running all the fun runs you have been wanting to do. Wearing all the clothes you have been wanting to wear without a second thought, you have become even more secure in your role at work and are bringing home the money you have been dreaming about. You have so much money saved up that you don't think twice about what is going where because you know exactly where it all goes. You are awesome at budgeting and planning ahead, and you are actually planning another trip as we speak. This will all come to pass over the next 5 years, Violet will be getting ready to graduate high school and planning on her next adventure. She will have made you super proud, as well as making herself super proud.

You will be re-evaluating this plan every year and every year adding something else to it.

Until then enjoy you reunion next year, make sure to tell me all about it.

Until then, Me

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Counting down the days until we leave for the 3rd cruise. I'm excited but also there's so much that needs done before we step foot on the ship. The driving. The parking. The embarkation process. Iykyk. It's crazy. But worth it for a week away from everything and everyone that causes problems. I'm contemplating even telling some people I'm leaving the country. Just to see how they'd fair without me instantly messaging back. Too many people rely on me to be me that I don't know what would happen if one day I just stopped.

Anyway. Fun awaits and I, for one, am Uber excited.

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May 9, 2025

Well it's been a minute, now hasn't it? Turns out it really was my anxiety in the last post, unfortunately I really did get busy and completely forgot about this whole blog I was attempting to start.

So, to recap the last 2.5 years I have officially started and finished school to become a medical coder and I have since found a job as well. My dream job started almost 8 months ago and I'm still loving every minute of it. My family and I are getting ready to go on our 3rd cruise, leaving next week. In 2023 we went on our first cruise to Grand Cayman, Montego Bay Jamaica, and Cozumel where we got off the ship and spent an additional week in Cozumel and surrounding areas. In 2024 we went to Key West, Nassau, Half Moon Cay, and Freeport Bahamas. This year we are going to Mahogany Bay (now named Isla Tropicale), then Costa Maya in Mexico and finally back to Cozumel.

I hope to keep this going and be able to share my travels and other life journeys along the way.

Until then, Me

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When anxiety attacks...

I’m sure I’m not the only one, I was invited to a Thanksgiving dinner for today. When I was invited a week ago, I thought I would be able to make it. I let her know I would double check some things but we should be able to make it. She’s a very understanding person and I know she understands that I wasn’t able to make it afterall, but my anxiety won’t let me calm down and just let it be. My head is telling me I am a bad friend and everybody hates me because I wasn’t able to make it. I know that’s not the case so I just have to get this off my chest and see if that helps. Usually it does, but ... yeah I don’t know much of anything today. And this week is going to be crazy, as I’m sure it is for all of you as well. 

OK, that seemed to help a bit, I’ll come back when/if I need to get more thoughts out of my head and in print. 

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