Thirty Pounds Lost and Feeling Great

Hello Lovelies!

It is the first day of the rest of your life (or something like that).

I do not know what led you to my beautiful budding blog today, but I can tell you why I started it.

• I want to help others like me who have struggled to lose weight.
• I want to encourage you to make changes in your life.
• I want to prove that you can lose weight over 30.
• I want to prove that you can lose weight after having a gaggle of kids.
• I want to prove that you can lose weight after overcoming an eating disorder.
• I want to prove that you can make a difference in your life.
• I want to hopefully prove that you can keep off the weight.
• I want to help myself (we are all after all an inherently selfish species)

So let me tell you about myself! 

I am a mother of 5 children under 11. I have been pregnant 7 times, I had 2 first trimester miscarriages. I live in the deep south surrounded by a plethora of delicious fatty fried foods. I am solidly over 30. I have struggled with weight my entire life. I am an eating disorder survivor. I work a sedentary job. 

Despite all this I have managed to drop from 220 pounds to 185 in the last 50 days. I have done this by eating a relatively strict low-calorie diet and working out a little bit here and there. I have recently started to take some supplements, but I have not used any sort of magical elixir or weight loss pill. In fact I have done all this on a non-existent budget with very little outside magic.

I do not have a gym membership. (Although I am working on getting a YMCA membership and I am looking forward to using that to ramp things up).

I do not spend hours a day working out. 

I am not starving myself. 

I believed for a long time that this was not possible. I kept putting it off and having a slice of cake instead. However, it is possible and I am determined to stick with it no matter what setbacks I come across along the way. 

So as of today, I am going to begin documenting my journey with you by my side. Hopefully it will be a long and fruitful relationship for us both!

Welcome to the humble start of Low Cal Mama.