Hello blogger world! This is my first entry into the blogger world. I have friends who manage blogs (quite well I must admit), so I thought I would take a crack at it. I felt a need to create this blog for different reasons. Reason number 1 is that I need accountability for my weight loss journey and I figure if people read this then that is my accountability. Reason number 2 is that I know that confessions are good and healthy and this could be a way for me to confess that I need help and encouragement. Reason number 3 is that this blog could be a tool for journaling what I eat, when I eat, and why I eat it! I know from my past weight loss journeys how important it is to write down what I eat. I am not a big fan of writing what I eat, so this is my biggest challenge.
For those of you who know me well, you know that I was a contestant on Augusta's Biggest Loser competition in 2008 and lost 98lbs. Well, if you have seen me lately you know that I have gained it all back with about 10 extra pounds. I am very well aware of my weight gain and totally ashamed and embarrassed by it. I know, I know..some of you might say not to be ashamed or embarrassed but quite frankly I should be. I had such a great gift through Biggest Loser and did not grow and learn from it. Well, not true! I did learn things...I just didn't put them into practice. I wanted to stay home and not come out. I got to the point that I didn't even want to go to church.
Well, hopefully this is a start to yet another journey of becoming healthy. I know I am not alone and there are some of you who need accountability. There are some of you whom I have avoided because of how ashamed I had become. To you (you know who you are), please accept my apology. I have finally come to terms with who I am and where I want to go. I know that my identity is in Jesus Christ alone and I had been putting my identity into my body size. Seems silly, doesn't it? Well, we all have our mountains to climb and I have to learn how to put my strength in Christ to take me up that mountain...because I don't have the ability to climb it alone!
Denny
