Journey to Glam

I started this blog on January 29, 2008, four days after I joined Weight Watchers in Dallas, Texas. I weighed in at 197.4 lbs that day, which was 6 lbs lower than my highest weight of 203 lbs. Since then, I have been on my journey to find the most glamorous me, one step at a time.

Why Journey to Glam?

This is a catalog of my ups and downs as I fight with the fat. I have been overweight all of my adult life and have finally decided to do something about it. The name for this blog comes from the days months years that I spent being overweight and the times that I had “let myself go.” I remember looking at myself in a mirror a few days before I joined Weight Watchers and I didn’t quite recognize the Me that I was seeing. I could barely pass for “pulled together,” heck, even alright looking would have been a compliment. I didn’t wear any makeup, I wore clothes that I could “hide” in and I “Scrubbed out” most of the time. Now, I still do that today, but it’s not because I want to hide but because some days I just want to be comfortable. The point being is that I stopped caring and I detached myself completely because I just didn’t give myself a chance to be worth it. Because of this dreary, debbie downer attitude, my energy level was always low and I could barely scrounge up the excitement and motivation to make it through the day. This fed into other parts of my life and I shunned away from huge parties, huge gatherings etc b/c I just didnt want to go through the ordeal of getting dressed up, socializing … b/c I didn’t care. I didn’t care much about anything and in retrospect, that was no way to live… I’m 20, in the prime of my life and in college; I hardly needed to give up on life already! Anyway, at some point it clicked and I realized that it didn’t have to be this hard. Just because I was fat now didn’t mean that I was always doomed to be fat and it didn’t mean that I was always set up to fail etc etc. That was just my self esteem talking. It just meant that I needed a plan to succeed…and so I got to planning! And I’m succeeding one step at a time! My method of choice is Weight Watchers though I do believe that it can be done with any plan as long as you believe in the plan enough to stick with it! And so…the name of this blog “Journey to Glam.” Its not just about external glamor or beauty; its about believing that you are worth it and you are worth giving yourself the chance to be sexy, confident, comfortable in your own skin…i.e. Glamorous! You are worth the time, the effort and the focus that it takes feel comfortable in your own skin and theres no reason that anyone or anything else should take that away from you. I know it sounds a bit cliche because it’s been used so much, but once that clicks, the battles all downhill baby!

Blog evolution

This blog is constantly evolving…right now I’m in the process of taking pictures of everything I eat to help me get back on track with my weight loss and I find that its helping a lot…I’m also in the middle of studying for my MCATs (read, stressed out student) so if you don’t see me on this blog for a while, give me a virtual kick in the pants and bring me back!

With all that said…. welcome to my blog, grab a cup o’ joe, prop your feet up and enjoy the ride…I promise it’ll be eventful…Along the way if you see anything that strikes your fancy, comment and let me know – its all about discussion and support.

Hmm anything else you think of and I haven’t said? Let me know at journeysww@gmail.com