In the Summer of 2011 after graduating from the California Maritime Academy and starting my career I went for my work physical. After avoiding a scale for a long time I discovered that I was: 217 lbs. I was labeled as mildly obese. This was very distressing to me. I felt that I was always active and outdoorsy, but fat. Obese was not a label that I would ever put before myself, but it still really rocked by world.

I began dieting. Something that I thought I had been doing since I was 10 years old. Since I was 10 years old I knew that I was chubby or fat. If you talked to my more critical relatives then they would have told you I was critically overweight. Yet, I felt that I was still able to achieve all the physical feats that I wanted.

More ranting will come later, but I have thought about dieting since I was 10 years old. WHAT THE HELL?!?! So between the ages of 10 to 21 I felt that for my family and society in general that I wasn’t good enough. I wasn’t good looking enough and I certainly wasn’t skinny enough. After graduating and realizing that my worse nightmares had come true I knew that things had to change.

Over a series of four years I have lost 57 lbs. With it came a completely different lifestyle and habits. Recently, I have discovered a plateau that needed abolishing to reach by goal of 135 lbs. With Another 30 lbs to go more changes will be need to made and more sacrificing.

However, after becoming ‘skinnier’ and ‘fit looking’ I don’t regret anything. I hope never to be the weight I was before because I FEEL better. I love that I am now more athletic than I was before and I LOVE being able to shop at normal places.

So, please follow me on my Fitness Journey. It’s never ending and is a lifestyle that I am always striving for.

Stay Tuned

-SS