Hey guys. For the long time Peep's, it's Aaron here (formerly WI_DisneyFan -- someone else has the same name without the underscore, and since we occasionally post in the same threads I changed mine to remove any sort of confusion).
So, it's been a while. Um, things have not been going well. Well, personally and professionally, things are going good. But weight wise? Yeah, not so much. Quick recap. Summer of 2011, I weighed 140 pounds, which was an all time low weight for me. I had reached the 100-pound-lost mark, and was only 10 pounds from my goal weight. I was really feeling great about myself, and thought there was no way I'd ever gain that weight back. Then I got a little complacent, or maybe just over confident, and the weight started to sloooly creep back on; that is something I had vowed to myself that I'd never allow to happen. I finished 2011 at 147 pounds. Not great, but not totally terrible either. I went on a business trip to the UK in January of this year, and I came back about 10 pounds heavier. I lost most of it rather quickly, and settled in around 150. I went to Disney World in September, and came back five pounds up. And unfortunately, I've kept that weight on plus another 10. I haven't weighed myself in about a month, but the last time I did I was around 165. So a good 25 pounds heavier than my lowest weight; and who knows what kind of additional damage I've done over the past few weeks. I can feel it, too. My joints a little more sore, my clothes aren't fitting like they should, my self-esteem is way down, and I just feel overall really "icky". At times I feel like a rudderless ship, like I have no idea what to do to lose weight; even though I've lost enough to know I can do it. I feel very powerless over food right now, and I'm afraid that I'm just destined to keep gaining until I'm right back where I started 7 years ago. I find myself snacking way too often, and I keep making excuse after excuse to skip going to the gym. I'll tell myself that "next week" I'll get back into a good groove. But as the story goes, next week never comes. I keep putting it off and putting it off; the food keeps getting shoveled into my mouth, and that gym membership continues to go unused. Well, enough is enough. I need to make a change, and there's no better time than now.
So here I am, crawling on my hands and knees, hoping you'll take me back. I need to get healthy again, and the best success I've had was when I was posting on here. I'm going to start following the Weight Watchers program again, because it's the only thing that's really worked for me. I'm going to start hitting the gym at least five days week, mixing in weight lifting with my normal cardio. And lastly, I'm going to try to be a regular on here again, because if the last year and a half has taught me anything, it's that I just can't do it alone. Hopefully together, we'll all have a very healthy, happy 2013...