Wednesday, January 4, 2012

In the beginning...

How to begin...

Well, my name is Caitlin and one of my new years revolutions was to start a blog. A very open, and honest blog about my journey to self acceptance. I'm not going to hide anything or censor myself so if you find colorful language distasteful then leave. Now. 

A few weeks ago, I celebrated 21 years of not being in my mother's womb. Got hammerfaced. It's only proper. I have a dog name Bear (corgi/pom) and I love him more than 99% of the population. I have a terrific boyfriend whom I love to pieces as well. He has a cat we named Kitten who is deaf. And inbred. I'm going to college to get into marketing, but would like to become a bartender on the side. I mostly don't enjoy my job, for the simple fact that I'm a people pleaser and most people are not pleased to get a call about a subpoena. And then they yell at me. I can rap the entire song "Look at Me Now" with Chris Brown, featuring Busta Rhymes. I'm a pianist, but I haven't played as much as I used to. For the most part, I consider myself a pretty self confident person. I have a great family, a great boyfriend, a great circle of friends, a great dog, a deaf cat. I consider myself beautiful, fairly intelligent, mostly funny, and extremely driven (when I want to be). But there is one thing in particular I'm looking to change...

I'm what you might call fat. 

I weighed myself at the beginning of the year and came in at a whopping 221.6 lbs. Some people might be embarrassed to post that in such a public way. But this is how I see it... it's not like you can't tell I'm fat by looking at me. There's a certain point at which it becomes difficult to hide. I got my body fat percentage today and let's say I'm about 6% away from being a jellyfish. In all honesty, I don't have a huge problem with looking like this. What I DO have a problem with is being unhealthy, especially considering my family's track record. So I've decided I'm going to try everyday to be a little healthier, and I'm going to let everyone know how it's going. And HOPEFULLY by the end of this year, I'll be a lot healthier. Only time will tell...

4 comments:

  1. Come do my stupid idiot workout tapes with me, mi amore! They make me feel like death, yay! This is Bridget, by the way. My blog hasn't been updated in a while cause it's hard to have a fashion blog when you don't have a photographer, Kirk's gonna help with that :D

    PS Did you make this jellyfish themed to keep you brother from reading it? Clever girl.

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  2. Lol no although that is a good idea. I did it to go along with the fact that I have become a jellyfish. That's a cute way to think of my body shape as far as I'm concerned.

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  3. Haha, you're the cutest jellyfish ever :D

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  4. I'm proud of you for wanting to get healthier! As you know, last year I went on my own journey... part of my motivation was vanity, but my lipid levels and glucose were all out of whack, so I also did it for health reasons. Gordon B. Hinckley was such an eternal optimist, and one of the things he said was "do a little better today than you did yesterday", I love that statement... we can all do a little better today than we did the day before, and that's how progress is made!! Good luck on your journey, you are a beautiful, funny girl and I wish you success :)

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