Here I am...

Well world here I am and it is time to get serious about who I want to become! My name is Stephanie and I am on a journey. This blog is starting off a few months after my journey began, but I really want to document it for myself and also for others to have the courage, or drive to do it themselves. Because if this crazy mother of three, four if you count the husband, can do this, anyone can.!
I have struggled with weight my entire life. I am not the girl who can eat whatever and never have to pay for it. I look at food and gain five pounds. However, I wish I could go back to my high school self and tell that girl who thought she was fat that she looked amazing! I would kill to have that body again. But wouldn't we all right? Well, it's not about going back to high school anymore, but it's about becoming the best version of myself now. My body is different. My metabolism is different. The demands on my time is different. And for sure my age is different! I turned the dreaded thirty this year and I can't believe I actually wrote that! It has been a struggle to come to grips with that little factor by the way. But hey they say thirty is the new twenty so here's to getting to feel like I am in my twenties again!!!
Well let's get down to the nitty gritty of it all. This all started for me back in the middle of April. I was the heaviest I had ever been in my life coming in at a whopping 229lbs. What the?!?!?!?! That is horrible! I remember seeing that number on the scale and thinking horrible things about myself and what I had let myself become. I have three beautiful daughters whom I love more than anything, but bringing them into the world was very hard on my body and having a husband who can eat ten cheeseburgers a day and not have it effect him certainly didn't help. I had let myself go. I had become what I always told myself I never would. I was fat. Luckily, I had a dear friend who happened to be thinking of me at the time. Her name is Karli. And it is safe to say that she was the answer to my most heartfelt prayers. She called me to tell me she was going to help me. She was becoming my health coach and was going to get me back to the person I wanted and needed to be. The program was called Take Shape for Life. I love it. You buy their food and eat five of their meals a day and then have a lean and green meal with lean proteins and yummy green veggies. I can't tell you the grattitude that I have for her and what she has done for me over the past few months. And now that I am headed in the right direction I want to become a coach myself to help others achieve their goals. I am far from my goal weight and still have a long way to go. I am currently weighing in at 196 and will be updating my weigh ins as I go. So I have come a long way but still have a heck of a challenge ahead. But by sharing my struggles and triumphs and a few funny stories along the way, maybe, just maybe, it will help one of you. Good luck everyone and good luck me. I know I can do this and so can you. And that my friends, makes me happy.