Why I'm here.

Once upon a time a pretty girl, met a studly EOD tech and they fell in love.  Time passed, children came along, and many many MANY deployments also came and went.  The pretty girl and her EOD husband pcs'd from one spot to the next, meeting new friends, making new connections, travelling the world.  It was all so serene until one day her studly EOD tech blew up in Afcrapistanilamabad and became a "wounded warrior".  Determined to live as normal an existence as possible, the pretty girl and the studly EOD tech decided to stay with the military, and press on.  Time was spent living out of a hospital, getting better, and getting back to "real" life in the military.  They were happy to get back to what was normal for them, and to continue on the path they'd set for themselves.  Then one day the pretty girl wasn't so pretty anymore.  She had gotten fat.  Not fat fat, but like FAT FAT.  Her studly EOD tech didn't care (as a good husband shouldn't) but he was worried about her health.  The fat wife was worried about the example she was setting for her daughters, and she was tired of being trapped in her too big body.  She felt like a prisoner of fat.

One weekend she was sitting at her computer in Europe, watching youtube clips of the most recent EOD memorial ceremony in Florida and she was sad.  She wanted to be there, but with her husband just starting a deployment, it just wasn't possible.  She decided then and there that come hell or highwater, her and her EOD hubby would be at that memorial the following year.  Then she started worrying about losing weight to look once again "pretty".  EUREKA!!!  She had an idea.  The pretty girl decided then and there that she not only would lose weight to be "pretty", and to be free from the fat prison she'd made for herself, but also to raise money for the EOD memorial fund.  She had to find a way to get people to pledge on her weightloss, so she started a blog..................................


So here we are.  It seems a little crazy, and I'm a little bit (LOT BIT) terrified that I won't raise a single penny, or that I won't lose a single pound.  But here is my plan, if you'll indulge me on this one.  I'd like to get people to pledge on my weight loss, sort of like a run-a-thon, or a jump-a-thon, but this is a pound-a-thon.  I don't care if it's a penny a pounds, a dollar a pound, or a flat rate amount.  Anything and everything helps!  So, I promise to log into this here blog every single day for the next year (until the next memorial) and say what I've done that day to help myself, and/or what I failed at.  I will give my weight loss progress through pictures (so you can see the horrible terrible scale with me!).  All I want from you is to read, and help the EOD memorial!  This sounds crazy, I know it sounds crazy, it sounds completely insane, but hey, it could be totally awesome too!  So, whadda ya think?


What I did today:

1.  Mowed the lawn.  I know it sounds like nothing, but for someone that lives an almost entirely sedentary lifestyle, it wasn't nothing!

2.  Started this blog!

3.  Moved all my workout clothes from the guest room dresser to the master bedroom dresser.  That change created a mental shift for me.  Before there was sort of this mental wall I'd created and now I've eliminated that wall.

What I failed on today:

1.  Not enough water

2.  Not enough vegetables.


Thanks for reading, I'll be back tomorrow!

XXOO,
Fat EOD wife

p.s. for those that don't know what the EOD memorial is, here is their website:  www.eodmemorial.org