When I titled the blog “The Pound of No Return” back in June (yes, procrastinator to the max), I liked it for 2 main reasons. One, I though it was kinda clever (pound of no return, point of no return, get it?) and two, because it was fairly relatable to for a lot of the weight loss bloggers I have been reading for almost the last two years. Everyone has their ‘pound of no return’, the number on the scale that either gives them there ‘a-ha’ moment (a la Oprah), scares the crap out of them, or shows them that they will never be that weight again. I know my pound of no return and I’ve known it since the first time I reached it in early spring 2009 (and then went 25 lbs. below it in the following months). It’s a scary number for me but I have been creeping closer and closer to it for months. Recently, I realized I was there. It made me sad to accept that I had undone all the work I had put in before, but I was ok with it, because I knew could just do it again.
And then I was two lbs. over ‘my pound of no return’, today.
I’m B: a 21 year-old, soon to be college graduate (May 2011), journalism major, university paper sports editor, high school basketball coach, sports addict, book nerd, daughter, sister, aunt, Godmother, and Christian. (The journalist/editor/English minor in me knows there are some major case disagreements in that description, but I’m ignoring it for now.)
This is my third attempt at a blog and I have been most hesitant to start this up again, because the more blogs I read, I’m not sure what my genre is. In the small blog world I read, it seems as if you need to categorize: are you a weight loss blogger? A fitness/nutrition/wellness blogger? A foodie? A personal blogger? (or one of these categories that also has a separate personal blog or a personal blogger who so happens to talk a lot about fitness.) I am none of those and all of those. This is just my life, as boring and uneventful as it may be. Yes, I have a lot of weight to lose, but I want to feel free to talk about other things that happen in my life to, even if they are not related to weight loss/exercise stuff.
Also, though this probably won’t be an anonymous blog, I hope to keep it separate from the people in my life. It’s just easier that way. (Though I do have a personal tumblr that some of my friends look at.)
You may have noticed that I haven’t said what my ‘pound of no return’ is. And I probably won’t, at least for a while, because the point is that everyone on a weight-loss journey (and most people in general) has one and it’s different for each person. My number may disgust you or you may think it’s not that bad. To evaluate what people consider acceptable/not acceptable is irrelevant. Each person has their own history, their own goals to achieve, and their own ways of getting there.
These are mine.
