Brittany Checking In!

Is it too late to check in to this awesomeness? I know i'm a week late, but better late than never! I'm Brittany and I'm 22 (almost). I've always considered myself athletic; I played competition soccer for years growing up. I stopped playing when I started high school because I was kind of burned out and wanted to try something else. I started some really bad eating habits in high school...my lunch consisted of a mountain dew, a candy bar, and some chips. Every. Day. Gross? Definitely. But I didn't care because I wasn't putting on any weight. I was still just as thin as I'd always been. During my first year of college I tasted my first bite of taco bell. I was hooked. Dinner pretty much consisted of a 69 cent double beef and cheese burrito and a mountain dew. Am I grossing anyone else out? Just me? Oh, okay. Yeah, it was pretty gross. Gross confession #3? I used to keep a bag of Doritos by my bed...just in case. hahaha. oh my gosh. This post is getting out of control. ANYWAY. I got married a couple of years later to my shweetie. He likes fast food, too. We're a grease-lovin'-soda-suckin' match made in heaven. The difference between us? He trains for and competes in triathlons. I....sit on my butt and watch Keeping Up With The Kardashians. (Gross confession #4). My eating habits and lack of motion finally started to catch up to me and I put on about 15 pounds. That doesn't sound like a lot, but when you're 5'3'', it feels like a lot. I started to really hate my body. Nothing anyone said made me feel any better. "You don't look 15 pounds heavier!"...Thanks, but you haven't seen me naked. The lowest moment came when I was required to get my body fat percentage measured for class and i was put in the "fat" category. Literally. The man pinched my arm, tummy, and leg and told me i belonged in the fat category. Why do they even HAVE a fat category?! I was sad. I cried. I started jogging and completed a few 5ks, a 10k, and eventually a half-marathon. I lost a couple of pounds but nothing really changed because I didn't change what I ate. Finally in September of this past year I found this blog written by a girl who had lost a lot of weight and I finally decided to make a change in what I was eating. I lost about 15 pounds by the end of 2011--which brings us to the now.

I've got a few fitness goals this year that I'm looking to complete and I wanted to share my journey to completing them on this blog.

1. Becoming faster. I want to complete a 5k, 10k, and half-marathon faster than I did in 2011. I want to be able to go running with my husband and actually keep up!

2. Eat healthier: kick my addiction to soda and sweets. Basically: eating healthier and not hating it. :/ Oh! And learning to eat oatmeal and not want to throw it back up.

3. Loving my body for the amazing things it can do, not just because it's a certain weight.

That pretty much sums it up. Sorry for the super long, over-explanatory post. I'm excited about this! Yay 2012! Yay team!