This will be my eighth DietBet. I first got hooked on them last summer when I was trying to lose some weight. My sister recommended that I try it, and after winning money for losing weight on my first one, I was so hooked. I did more, winning each time! I had won back enough money to enter two challenges at once!! I entered another, just as the fall semester of school was starting, which was a no-no, I came to learn. As school picked up speed, and my time available for cooking and working out diminished, I found it harder and harder to keep up my weight loss momentum. I ended up losing those challenges, and all my winnings. I deleted the DietBet app from my phone, and plodded on through the rest of the semester. I ended up reaching my lowest weight since high school in November of that year, but after a stressful spring semester, my even more stressful summer job, and several health issues that came to a head, I reached an all-time high weight of my life.
So here I am, thinking to myself, I do not want to stay this way. I want to graduate college FITTER and HEALTHIER and HAPPIER than I graduated high school!
A big part of turning my health around has been this group I joined on campus called CHAARG, Changing Health, Attitudes, and Actions to Recreate Girls. We have weekly chapter meetings where we all work out together, and weekly small group meetings where we also work out together. It's been a great community of girls to be surrounded by, and an amazing group of people who constantly motivate me and inspire me to work harder and take care of my mind and body.
However, with the pressures of finding a job, and finishing well in school, it is hard to force myself to stay accountable with my eating. Following my health issues this summer, I had to drastically change my diet, and I have been falling back on that as an excuse for not eating healthy lately. But it's time to stop. By now, I've had time to re-learn how to eat right, and joining this DietBet is me putting money down on myself that I CAN do this.
I can't wait to see where I am 1 week from now, 2 weeks from now, and especially, 4 weeks from now. Let's do this!!!