Sweet Sixteen

Well I didn't make it to the gym this morning. It was way too easy to ignore the alarm when I knew I didn't have to get up. What I did make it to this morning is my high school weight. And not just my high school weight, but what I weighed when I turned 16 years old. Now, I don't know how I think that this number (t-25 pounds) is actually the weight I was in high school. I just remember weighing this once and therefore, it has been a goal of mine to get back to. Obviously, I still have weight I would like to lose; I wasn't at my goal weight in high school either. But, it feels amazing to me to say that I am back to where I was 12 years ago!

Let me take you back to my senior year in high school: Usually I get about 5 hours of sleep per night. A combination of talking to Jennifer on the phone until 2am and trying to figure out my calculus homework keeps me from sleeping well at all. For most of the day I sit. Every 50 minutes they let us get up and walk to our next class for 4 minutes. Of course, I take PE, but as a non-athletic person I opt to take racket sports and therefore only move around a court or on a good day: around a ping-pong table. For lunch, if we don't race out to McDonald's, we sit in the hall at school and eat: a piece of pizza, a nutty bar and a bottle of Mt. Dew. Oh, the life! After school I head to my job at K-Mart where I stand for 4 hours, but not in a healthy way.

Obviously, proudly, my life as changed. I almost always get 8 hours of sleep. I actually have a job where I get up every 4 minutes rather than every 50. I workout lots and lots; and actually have muscles now. I wouldn't dream of eating that much crap in just 27 minutes for lunch. In general, my stress level is much lower; I don't ever have to think about calculus or getting into college.

So from here on out, every pound lost, every ounce of muscle built, every hour I work out and every good night of sleep I get, is me becoming the best me I have ever been!!!