Introduction

In the 23 years, 5 months and 3 days I've been on this earth, I can actually say I've never been 'healthy'. I've been thin, I've been too thin, I've been overweight, I've been at a 'healthy' weight (although never healthy)--pretty much every end of the weight spectrum. My 5'7" frame has been anywhere from 89 pounds to 175 pounds. I've never respected my body. I feed it crap, drink a ton of soda and energy drinks and hardly ever exercise.
All of that is about to change. I am doing something new--something I have never done before. I am going to be healthy. Whatever weight that takes me to, I will accept, because being healthy is my priority now, not some 'magic' number on the scale.

This is going to be the new motto I live my life by. I don't know anybody that doesn't want to be active, healthy and happy. I do, I just haven't wanted it bad enough to take it seriously before. I can't say what sparked this--it wasn't a New Year's Resolution or anything. I suppose I am just sick and tired of being sick and tired, knowing that I could feel a lot better if I just worked at it.
I'm not going to be using a scale to measure my success, so you won't see any numbers on here. I can honestly say that scales have almost killed me in the past. I get too obsessed with the number and focus only on making it smaller.
I'm also not going to be counting calories. Again, I get too obsessed with numbers. Instead, I'll be focusing on making sure I get an adequate amount of fruits, veggies, protein, grains and dairy every day.
I'm terrified of change, and this change of lifestyle will shake me up a little bit--I get very comfortable in a routine and freak out at anything that disrupts it. I have my 'safe foods' and my 'unsafe foods'--the ones I'm too scared to even eat at all. I'm wanting to change all of that, and get it into my head that there are no bad foods I 'can't' eat. This journey will be hard, but so so worth it.