No, Really...I'm Back

I know, I know, it' been a while. But I really am back this time. And I'm doing these things differently this time.

After much reflection, I realized that the way I ate when I started this blog was unhealthy. I was so driven to look healthy that I sacrificed my eating habits in the process. But I was losing weight while staying in the healthy part of my BMI, so it never occrred to me that I wasn't eating correctly. Unfortunately, after hitting my weight loss goal, my weight spiked back up.

Since the summer of 2010, I've put on a total of twenty pounds. Now I want to take it off and keep it off...the right way.

I recently started seeing a nutrition major at my university. She told me that I wasn't making it to 1200 calories every day and too much of what I was eating were empty calories. Plain and simple, I needed to make positive changes to my lifestyle.

Following my nutritionist's meal plan, I'm not only eating better, but I'm exercising differently, too. When I'm not taking a fitnes class, I was just doing thirty minutes on the treadmill and two sets of ab work. I'm now doubling my time on the treadmill, spending several minutes doing floorwork between thirty minute sets on the treadmill/bike.

Since making all of these changes, I have managed to drop eight pounds. Though through all this weight gain and loss I have stayed within my healthy BMI range, I am living proof that BMI is not the most accurate way to measure whether or not a person is overweight. My tiny frame shows gain and loss this dramatic in an obvious way, and I was tired of having a gut.

No, this blog is not going to become a weight loss blog. I want to continue to focus on healthy eating, but in a way that emphasizes eating the right way. I won't just feature a recipe, but I'll also include the vegetables to eat on the side.

If anyone has feedback on these changes, please share it!