About Me

Hello all! My name is Katie. I am a 22 year old graduate student who has decided to undertake a major life change. You see, this blog, as you may have noticed deals with weight. But it's more than that. This blog will document my work, progress, and ultimate transformation into a fit and healthy individual. It's not about getting skinny and it's not about pleasing anybody else. I'm doing this for me and my health.

On this blog, I will post about my fitness and nutrition efforts. I will talk about my workouts with my personal trainer (yay Bonnie!), my forays into healthy eating (baby steps, I'm sure), and my feelings about what I'm doing (because this is MY blog, after all).

You can stop reading here if you'd like because that's all you really need to know, but if you're a mega creeper like me, you can read more details about me below. :)

My fitness journey has been less like an ethereal hike through a pretty forest and more like a recurring battle against a super army. I have had issues with my body basically since I can remember. In the fourth and fifth grades, I started to put on a little pudge. Nothing major, just baby fat, I was told. Everybody said I'd grow out of it.

Guess what. I didn't. My relationship with my body has been difficult to cultivate. From an early age I was told to "suck it in" for pictures and in general. Some of the less than healthy advice from family members came in the form of "back away from the table." I could take the easy way out and blame this on my family, especially my mother. She, too, has had body issues her entire life. I'm not going to say she imposed them on me because I am my own person. I make my own decisions.

And now I'm deciding to be healthy.

I've gone through different levels of fitness and exercise throughout the years. I would start working out (at home with videos mostly), keep it up for a few months, and promptly quit. I lacked dedication and I couldn't see the results even when I had them.

This is what I consider to be my healthiest point: age 16, junior year of HS.

Recently, I joined a gym and attended a session on personal training. I'm not sure how the trainer did it, but she hooked me. I signed up for personal training sessions twice a month for a year. My trainer sets a routine for me, and I do it for two weeks until I see her again. This is costing me a fair amount of money, but since I'm a total tightwad  very frugal, the money is helping to keep me accountable. 

I'm hoping this blog will keep me accountable too. The things I'm posting here are going to be honest and raw because that's what I need. I understand this will not be easy, but change rarely is.