The Mission starts....

To be honest I don't know where to start as this is my first attempt at blogging .... maybe I will tell you a little about myself:

My history of dieting and weight loss doesn't start today - it started long ago. I think I went on my first diet as a teeny. Although I never was overweight back then, I always felt like taking up too much space. Over the years, through growing up and college I became quite overweight and more and more unhappy with myself. I tried every fad diet there was, but never lost weight successfully and for a longer period of time.
After my 25 birthday I suddenly had that magic moment when I realized it's now or never - because my real ME was buried somewhere under all this weight I was carrying around. The funny, outgoing girl I once was, had turned into a depressed, lonely, unhappy and unhealthy woman. I changed my eating habits, tried to be more active and began to loose weight. I hit plateaus, stayed at certain weights for almost a year, battled a few crisis, but finally in April 2007 I had lost 80 lbs - I had gone from 229lbs to 149!!! And I maintained this weight for almost 2 years!

Due to developing some major food intolerances, I had to adjust to totally new eating habits and I couldn't believe how fast I gained 15lbs back - you might say, I still accomplished a lot and you are right!!!! BUT although I lost quite an impressing amount of weight, I never was into exercise much and I often didn't care about my health or what I ate enough.
Through my intolerances and some other healthy problems I learned the hard way that the most important thing isn't the number on your scale. It's more important to eat healthy and balanced, not only to eat few enough to loose weight. It's important to exercise to have a strong and fit body, not only a lean one.

I want to loose those last 15 pounds again - but I want to do it the right way this time. Living a healthy life - to get the fittest, healthiest, strongest and of course hottest (;-P) body I can get.