a little bit about me and my weight loss journey

I'm kind of nervous to start this blog.. I feel like I don't have much to say, especially nothing that people would want to read.

This started from my WW blog, which is titled the same thing. Now I know I don't have a TON of weight to lose, but somewhere around 50 lbs. I've guesstimated that I'd like to be there by next summer. I'll graduate from college in May and would love to be goal weight for that.

Other than the obvious reasons (health, self confidence), a huge reason why I want to lose weight is to be at an ideal weight before I have kids.

With that said, yes, I'm only 20 and have been married for 6 months, but I've ALWAYS wanted to be a mom. Call me old fashioned, anti feminist, whatever you want, but I want to have kids and be a stay at home mom. As a Christian, I believe that it's the right thing for me to do and that's what I will do.

I've also thought about home schooling, which I think is great, and I'm a total supporter of. I want to teach my kids different things about different culture, types of people, religions, more than what you get in public school. And I want to open each day with prayer and a Bible reading.

I'm not judgemental at all, and I'll agree to disagree with anyone. I won't push my beliefs in your face as long as you don't judge me on mine. If you ask my opinion, I'll tell it, and I love to hear other people's opinions and views on things.

Anyways, that's a huge part of me losing weight. I figured if I won't do it for myself, then maybe I'll do it for someone else's health, my potential babies.

Last summer I lost 25 lbs on WW, and was hoping to keep it off for my wedding in December, but I didn't. I went back to school in the fall and gained 30 lbs back. Big surprise there, to go from WW to eating whatever and thinking I would stay the same? Riiiiight, way to go Meg.

So I decided to start my WLJ again, in Mid May and as I said before, I'm hoping to lose my weight by next summer. I'm still not sure where my goal weight should fall. The top of my "healthy" weight would be around 132, but we'll see how I feel when I get there. I'm hoping I can get to 130 or so, but we'll see what I can maintain.

"I can do all things through Him who gives me strength"
Phil. 4:13