How did I get here.
…at least that’s the question that I’ve asked myself lately because the last year, with all of its up’s and down’s, has been very interesting. You see, when I started this journey, I never expected it to be the emotional roller coaster that it’s turned out to be. I’ve gone from feeling incredibly empowered in the beginning to feeling utterly depressed these days and I gave up along the way.

Recently I’ve had a bit of a debate going on in my head. Do I continue to “fake it” by eating crap food and then going to the gym and half-ass’ing it…. or do I get serious by getting back on track and take the necessary steps to lose another hundred pounds. The answer is of course, yes… get back on track and get back to work and lose another hundred pounds. My issues center around being lazy and lacking the motivation to push my body, so I’ll need to dig deep to figure how to keep motivated. I don’t have much support in my life… and I stopped caring about improving the my quality of life. Perhaps I just needed a break, I don’t know…. but I’m committing myself to a solid week of workouts and eating better starting tomorrow. I’ll weigh myself each day and tally up the results at the end of the week…. I’m going to treat it as an adventure in weight loss. Wish me luck, ‘cuz I’m going to need it.



I'm a web technologist living in Northern California who drinks tea, makes beer and likes to take pictures. I'm also on a journey to lose 200 lbs and change my life for the better. I'm 110 lbs down, 90 more to go.




Hi. I just found your blog today. And the Talking Heads quote reeled me in.
Anyway, I hope you do get back on track. I’m an internet dork who will leave you comments like this so you know that someone out there is rooting for you.
ETA: I would write more but I don’t want you to be like “wow, holy oversharing woman.”
hello holy oversharing woman…. There are lots of questions I could be asking my myself…. like who is Liz M and how did SHE get here.
Feel free to comment spam me, I’m shy and nerdy and secretly love attention.
It’s a good thing I came back here to check and see if you responded. Because I am honestly that intrigued.
I got here through Skinny Emmie, who I found through Beth’s Journey. And I found Beth’s Journey… man, I don’t even know how.
Blogs are like one big circle jerk, especially healthy living blogs.
Ah, yes…Emmie links me. Didn’t you hear, I beat the Internet without losing a single life.
And no, I do not have a blog of my own. At least, not a public one. I just e-stalk people. And now you are one of my e-stalkees. Moohahaha.
No blog no fun.
I am tons of fun, how dare you sir.
How DARE you.
ETA: I may be able to be convinced to have a public blog. I do have one somewhere, and I’m Kind of a Big Deal (I say that facetiously) but public? I don’t think I have the balls.
Fear is the weakness… And I’m glad that you don’t have balls.
Blogging isn’t for everyone and sometimes it’s not for me… but at some point I just got past caring what others think of me.
I am admittedly extremely weak in some areas. I’ve had some pretty scary internet experiences, so I am a little wary of putting it all out there.
Also, I like my job and would like to keep it. However, I am very glad that I do not have balls.I almost said something very inappropriate after that, but I controlled myself.
I got stuck for a while. I did the master cleanse and it’s got me motivated again. I lost 14lbs in 10 days and now I’m on atkins induction and losing again. If you try it you should use agave nectar instead of maple syrup it has all of the same nutritional value but a lower glucose and it tastes loads better.
Good luck(:
Hey Joey –
I heard from your friend at the lake, who’s name I don’t know, that you were doing the cleanse stuff…. I’ll have to look into giving that a try, I’ve never done that before.
You should it’s pretty awesome. Probably Yvette or Lori? They walk every morning but I can never get my butt up! Lol