... of being fat and unhealthy. I'm starting this blog to chart my progress, which means being incredibly vulnerable with you all. You might not think it to look at me, but I am about 50 pounds overweight. My stats are as follows:
Weight: 179.4
BMI: 29.1
Body Fat %: 41.2
My measurements are in inches:
Waist: 35
Hips: 45.5
Arms (combined): 27.25
Thighs (combined): 53.5
Total Inches: 161.25
My goal is to get to 130 pounds with a TI (Total Inches) of 124. I plan on doing this by exercising and committing to a whole food, plant based diet. So yep, going vegan. This is bound to be a pretty intense journey. Research into food has not necessarily convinced me that a plant based diet is the cure-all a lot of its champions claim, but it is clear that my current eating habits are not good for me. No matter how little I eat, I get fatter. I must be eating the wrong things. We are a vegetarian household, so giving up meat has already pretty much been chosen for me, but we LOVE our dairy products around here and not eating cheese anymore makes me want to cry.
I am going to call my doctor tomorrow to make an appointment to get some blood work done, and when I have those results I will post them. I am really nervous about people reading this blog. I do my best to hide my chunk and openly discussing it is a little unnerving to say the least. But I also know that everyone reading this, even if we have never met, is rooting for me. I know that you all want me to be healthy too, and some accountability will be nice. It will make me think harder about my choices if I know that I have to post my results for all of you to read.
