The Change I Need

The roadtrip ended yesterday and I’m now settling in to the apartment with my new (old) roommate Jessi. I am pretty excited about being here and about all the fun to come over the next two months.  I will probably blog about some of it, but I’ve decided to blog less about myself over the next few months. I am feeling the need to be productive and useful and bring you more things like book reviews, success stories, guest posts, and useful information for weight loss. This is about my journey to healthiness, obviously, but it’s already gotten so many other stories entwined with it. It’s about me living my best, happiest life but it’s also about helping others do the same. While I love sharing my ups and downs along the way, some things have happened that have made me weary about sharing so much and therefore I’m going to take the focus of my journey (a tiny bit!) and move it toward sharing some lessons, tips, advice, and more with you all.  I hope you appreciate the changes, and if you would like to see something discussed just let me know.

But that’s for the future. Attractions coming soon to the blog (as in next week). For now I want to spend a few minutes thinking about moving across the country this past week.

There are a lot of things I want to do in my life. Sometimes things I want to do are on the lists I am always making, and sometimes they are not. Moving to Oregon was not specifically something that was on my list. Driving across the country was not specifically on the list. Yet these things are things that I feel like are amazing experiences that are enriching my life.

The roadtrip was amazing. You saw some of the beautiful landscapes I was able to see, but nothing could capture the beauty of the many places I drove through. The United States is a beautiful country and I feel lucky that I was able to see so much of it during my drive. The majority of my trip was all new areas for me to see and discover, which is one of my favorite things to do.

The people I met during my trip blew me away. They were amazingly kind, generous, fun, loving, happy people. I’m so glad I got to meet Erin, Shannon, Janetha, Ryan and Skylar from the blog world. If it was up to me I would just continually travel around the US meeting everyone who blogs about being healthy. I hope to meet more people while I’m in Oregon and when I travel across the states with Kepa in July. This trip would have been nothing without the awesome people that I was able to share it with so I’m incredibly grateful for them and their desire to share part of themselves with me, even if just for a few minutes.

But beyond the roadtrip, I’m really glad to be here. It’s not Oregon specifically, although it is a great state, but just out of my old situation. I’m now older and wiser and even though that doesn’t translate into being stronger in that situation, it does translate into the ability to recognize it for what it is and remove myself. I could see myself slipping into old habits and patterns that were hard to break. I wanted to remove myself from that and give myself a fighting chance at doing this fully. I’m hoping that flinging myself out of that old negative comfort zone will be what I need to push me forward. I think that being here in this new environment will be good for me both in life and with my weight loss journey. I’m hoping that it is the change I need.

Obviously I would like you all to continue to follow along with my journey as it progresses from Tennessee to Oregon to New Zealand and hopefully to new clothes sizes and weights. This is just another chapter in an already long and disjointed story of living a merry life. Make sure you subscribe (rss or email) and follow along. And thank you to everyone who encouraged me during the last week! I really appreciated it!

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