krista: a weight loss journey

Tonight’s guest post comes from the lovely Krista @ Journey to a Healthy Berg. Krista has been on an AMAZING health and weight loss journey. You will be inspired by her story!

Hey everyone! My name is Krista and I blog over at Journey To A Healthy Berg. I am honored and so excited to be posting on Chelsey’s blog today. Her blog is one of the first healthy living blogs that I started reading, and to me she is sort of like a celebrity.

My blog is a little different from other healthy living blogs because it centers around my journey to lose weight. For my post tonight, I thought I’d talk a little bit about my weight loss story and how healthy living blogs have helped me as I work towards my goal, as well as the kinds of things that you can expect in my daily posts.

A little over two years ago, I was morbidly obese and tipped the scales at just over 280 pounds. I was extremely unhappy, but more importantly, I was unhealthy.

I started losing weight by doing simple things like watching what I ate and exercising at my school’s gym four or five days per week. Eventually I started counting calories and my work-outs increased in intensity. Before I knew it I was lifting weights almost every day in addition to doing cardio, and soon I started running for the first time in my life. Since January 2009 I have lost 115 lbs.

Many people who have lost weight will probably tell you that it took multiple tries to finally be successful, and this is because it is so easy to revert back to old habits and gain the weight back. This was the case for me time and time again, as I have made numerous attempts over the years to drop the pounds but have always put them back on. For a while, I worried that this would happen again this time around. I was afraid I would gradually start making poor food choices again and quit exercising, ultimately leading to packing on the pounds and returning right back to where I was.

However, this past summer I made an amazing discovery that I truly believe holds the key to my maintenance: healthy living blogs. All of the sudden, I was introduced to a huge community of individuals who have a passion for treating their bodies well, but they never deprive themselves. The amazing women behind these blogs inspire and motivate me to make smart choices not because I’m afraid of gaining weight, but because I want to be healthy.

It’s my goal to one day be able to channel the inner foodie in me and make my blog as creative and inventive as blogs like Clean Eating Chelsey, but right now I need to finish what I started. Since I would still like to lose about thirty more pounds (this would put me right in the middle of the healthy BMI range), I have to be pretty careful about what I eat. Sadly, this means that you won’t find things like amazing dessert recipes and pictures of the most mouth-watering bowls of oatmeal you’ve ever seen in your life (ahem, thanks for making me drool over your breakfast all the time, Chelsey!) on my blog. What you can expect to find are daily posts about the kinds of foods I’m eating, what I’m doing at the gym, my weight loss progress, and of course the happenings of my everyday life. I’m also a full time pharmacy student (I’ll be graduating in May 2012) so be prepared for lots of whining about exams, studying, and how I don’t have much of a life thanks to pharmacy school

I look up to and admire women like Chelsey, and thanks to them, I know that I’m going to be able to maintain a healthy lifestyle for the rest of my life. I love all of my bloggy friends and I hope you decide to stop by and say hi!

Question: How have blogs inspired you to continue a healthy lifestyle or “hold you accountable”? 

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