Welcome friends to my new blog, my new project, and my new tool to get healthy. I have a lot of tools in that bag. Healthy living tools. This blog is just going to be another tool. I’m so excited to get going and I can’t wait to have many others join me. Now just because it needs to be said, I am not a dietitian, nutritional counselor or fitness expert. Before you start any fitness or lifestyle change please talk to your doctor. They are the ones that know what is best for you body! One more thing, please don’t take my word as gospel. This lifestyle change I have embarked upon is my personal journey. What has worked for me, may not work for you. Read, filter and apply what is good for you to your life! Don’t be afraid to check things out for yourself. After all it’s your life, take charge of it!!!
So let me tell you a bit about myself. Some of you know me from my other blog, Southern Girl In Arizona. I have just decided to split the health and fitness portion away from that blog and use that one for the rest of my stuff I feel the need to share! Please feel free to follow me there too! Ok back to telling you about me! I’m 44 years old and I live in Arizona. I’m married and have 3 kids and they are awesome little human beings! In the last two years I have changed my lifestyle and I’ve lost 40 pounds. I’m motivated to better my life because of my kids. They need me and I certainly need them, so eating better, exercising and losing weight is what must be done to obtain a better life for them! They need to learn healthy habits too!
I didn’t grow up heavy. I was always taller than the other kids in my class, but I would say my weight was pretty average. I’m really not sure when that changed. I think it just caught up with me. I ate more than I exercised and that took it’s toll on my body.
My wake up call came when my sister died 14 years ago. She was 352 pounds when she died and I vowed never to allow myself to get to that weight. Isn’t that how it always goes? We say we are never going to get to a certain weight, and we do…so we add a few more numbers and vow never to cross that line, and we do…it’s a cycle. I reached 316 pounds and I knew if I didn’t break the cycle now I wouldn’t stop gaining weight.
When we moved from Indiana to Arizona in 2012 life started changing. I went from cold weather to sunny almost all the time! I was able to be more active just because of the climate change, don’t get me wrong I could have been active in Indiana too, I think the move just spurred it on! I no longer wanted to just sit on my couch, and I didn’t! And so it began…
Now here I am two years later and I’ve lost 40 pounds but I’ve realized I need to kick it up a notch or two. I need to move more, and change the way I eat and really commit to a new lifestyle. It’s time to stop making excuses (I like to call them reasons) and get going. So that’s what I’m going to do! Aren’t you lucky to get to share this with me?!
I named my blog “It’s More than Celery” because I love food! There are not many foods I don’t like! I want this journey to be more than eating celery sticks. I want this to be about eating real food, healthy food and loving it! Don’t get me wrong, I like celery, but I can’t wait to explore and share delicious recipes that are more than celery!
So who is with me? Let’s get this going! I will kick off tomorrow and tell you some more of the tools in my Healthy Living Tool Bag!
It's More than Celery 