Once a Fatty, Always a Fatty! NOT This Fatty!

I guess you can say I have been overweight all my life. As far back as I can remember it was more than just the chubby cheeks. I remember in grade school, middle school and high school being called fat. I even remember the time I was walking home from Kent Drugs, eating a bag of Funyuns, when some boy I did not even know looked at me and said, "That's why you so fat now!" It's funny the things we remember from childhood. So now I am going on 38 and I am completely sick of it all. Better late than never is what I say. It's time to do something about it and stick with it. If this does not happen, I can only now blame ME.

Recently, I revived a movement, if you will, called H.U.W.A.M. and H.U.W.A.M. stands for: Hold Up Weight A Minute. What does that mean? It means, get off my damn fat back! It means stop brow beating me about losing weight and getting healthy! It means, I know what I need to do and I don't need all of your forced suggestions. It means just give me the support and encouragement that I need to travel this road to a smaller and healthier me.

My thoughts are that WE know what WE need to do to lose weight or get healthy. Yes, you may need some assistance along the way, but get if from a professional. As far as how many weights you need to lift or how many Jenny Craig accounts you need to open, make sure that is what YOU want to do and not what your skinny friend or family member told you that you need to do! I have created a YouTube channel just for this. You can subscribe or observe by going to: http://www.youtube.com/huwam2010

I currently weight 286.6 (My last weight on February 15, 2010) and my goal is to get down to 185. How long am I giving myself? Good question. How ever long it takes. I don't believe in putting extra pressure on myself and I want to be smart about it. I have decided not to be a scale junkie either. The proof will be in the pudding or in the fact that I decided not to eat the pudding. *wink*

This blog will be my online journal about my ups, downs, trials, triumphs, fall offs and successes of this journey. I don't call it a diet, for I am not yet ready to die-yet. This is a lifestyle change that I decided to do for ME. Not to impress another or to prove anything. Just to stay alive and to be healthy is my main motivation.

Won't you join me? Well, at least follow along as the story unfolds.