Back to reality...

...ok, so this is weightloss/fitness blog so I best get back basics.

When I got home from vacation, I got on the scale for the first time in about a month. During that month, I encountered Christmas parties, Christmas, Boxing Day, NYE, New Years Day, and an entire week in Cuba eating and drinking basically sugar and fat.

The number I saw on the scale was a number I haven't see in YEARS. Literally. Those of you who have been following this blog for a while now know that I suffer from migraines, most commonly triggered by stress. After I saw that number on the scale, I spent the rest of the day in bed plagued with a migraine.

In hindsight (granted its only been 4 days) seeing that number was likely the best thing that has happened to me in a long time.

As most of you know, I LOVE to workout. Exercise isn't the hard part of losing weight for me. Its portion control. I'm journalling every bite that goes into my mouth.

When I first lost the bulk of my weight, I was a Weight Watchers Nazi. Despite being a skinny-mini, I really wasn't a healthy skinny-mini. I was eating a lot of processed garbage, just because it was low in points. I'd workout for hours a day, just so I could eat more. Not exactly what I'd call healthy weight-loss. Weight Watchers is a fantastic program don't get me wrong, but I don't think it focuses enough sometimes on the importance of eating HEALTHY foods... nor does it encompass weight loss for those with high activity levels.

As I've become more educated on nutrition I've come to embrace whole, real foods and try each day to limit the amount of sugar and garbage I put into my body... and this way of eating definitely assists to fuel my body for the high amounts of activity I do. That being said, my downfall is often over eating BECAUSE of the high amounts of activity I do. I must STOP this. This is why I'm chubby.

Deep down, I know I'm a healthy person. I watch what I eat, I do a variety of exercise and as a result I know I have a healthy heart and body to go along with it. BUT, I'm definitely a CHUBBY healthy person.

I'm going to shed a few extra pounds to fit back into that closet of clothes, and to remove the CHUBBY from my healthy person status. :)