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I grew up on a ranch in South Dakota, I learned so many awesome life lessons from my parents, but a healthy lifestyle was not one of them. My 3 sisters, my mother and I are just now understanding that biscuits and gravy is not a balanced, healthy meal.

It was never just the fatty food though, growing up I was always very thin and I never had to work at it at all. This led to me grossly

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I grew up on a ranch in South Dakota, I learned so many awesome life lessons from my parents, but a healthy lifestyle was not one of them. My 3 sisters, my mother and I are just now understanding that biscuits and gravy is not a balanced, healthy meal.

It was never just the fatty food though, growing up I was always very thin and I never had to work at it at all. This led to me grossly overeating everything I really loved: birthday cake, pizza, ramen noodles, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, potato cheese soup, nachos, doritos, it was all fair game to me. It didn't matter if I ate an entire frozen pizza by myself I never gained any weight. It also didn't help that all of my guy friends constantly told me how awesome it was to see a girl who actually ate. Ha Ha, oh the intelligence of youth!

On the day of my high school graduation I weighed 111 lbs. The day I started college I weighed 124. At the time it was the most I had ever weighed and I didn't have the tools or knowledge to nip this horrible cycle in the bud. And believe me this horrible cycle did not stop at a measly little 13 lbs. Oh no.

Fast forward 6 years, 3 college changes, 1 husband, 1 dog, 1 cat, a college degree(yea!!), 40 more lbs and 12 billion excuses later and this is what you get. Chubbster. Thats right if you did the quick math I am currently 164 lbs. It doesn't seem like much if your a 6'1" man, but for my 5'3" frame its pretty pitiful.

I know that there are many people out there that have much worse problems than I do, but according to BMI calculations I am teetering on the edge of obesity and I want to be part of our country's solution, not the problem. That is why I hold my head up high and tell you that I am going to lose 54 lbs. Thats not a unreachable goal, thats not an I'll do it if I have time, I am going to be in the best shape of my life. Just like I have heard so many people say in their success stories. I can't wait to be one of those success stories. Maybe then I can inspire someone just like they have inspired me.

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