So I wanted to start this blog in 2010

My weight climbed from there

And showed no signs of stopping

I really wanted to lose weight

Just really didn't know HOW to and was scared to ask

Why scared

I don't know, maybe pride

Losing weight is scary

My over eating reasons are scary

But changes had to be made

So they were, one small step at a time

That's all you can do

Changes were being made before I realized that I HAD to make them

In August 2010 I made some flippant remark on my Facebook about loving diet coke

My cousin challenged me to give it up 

She said she would give up ice cream until Christmas too

Give it up until Christmas

NO WAY

Then I thought about it and thought, "I can do it in a month"

So I started weaning myself from diet coke

That may sound pitiful but it NEEDED to happen

When you drink 6-8 cans a day of it, I felt I needed to wean myself

I was rarely drinking water

Sept 15th, 2010 was the last day I drank any diet coke

By that time I was down to 3 diet coke a day and 3 glasses of  milk then water

Oh my goodness, the headaches were ATROCIOUS

It was like that for about a week

Whenever I thought about going back to it, I thought of the headaches and it was easy to not drink it

I went until Christmas and then kept pushing myself

"Just a little bit further" I would tell myself.

Now it has been almost 18 months

Giving up that one thing that was "so important to me" taught myself I can do things I never thought I could

I never thought I could do it but for me, it has worked