About Me

Hi there! Thanks for coming by!

I'm Kali. I'm a 27 year old wife and Registered Nurse. I've always been a little overweight and was very self conscious about it. Even as a kid I saw myself as a little bigger than my friends and it always bothered me.


4 years old. 



That's me on the left in 3rd grade.

I started my very first diet in 5th grade where I stopped eating lunch at school because my weight bothered me. The problem really lies in my body image because when I was younger I wasn't overweight by much, I just thought I had to be very thin.  As a teenager I was always on a diet and was not at all athletic. My weight yo-yo'd with a consistent increase overall. At 20 things turned grim when my binge eating turned into bulimia. I was at my lowest adult weight of 140ish.


Short and blonde and 140lbs

I ended up admitting myself to a treatment program in Florida to get things in check. 2 months later I returned 30 pounds heavier and back to binging. From there my weight fluctuated between 170 to my highest recorded weight of 193 pounds in 2009 at 23 years old.


PJ and I (me at 193)

185-190

My husband PJ and I had just started dating and I began the slow yo yo decline that included every fad diet I could get my hands on. Finally after 2 years together PJ proposed and I gladly accepted. I knew I had to get serious about my weight. This was my first success at a small weight loss.  I tracked my calories, started exercising, and entered a Biggest Loser competition at work. I was down to 160 at one point when stress of planning a wedding got the better of me and I gained weight.

 

I weighed 172 lbs on my wedding day; August 10, 2013. That fall I gained 10 "happily married" pounds. In February we went to a wedding and I came in at 180 pounds.

At this point none of my clothes fit right again and I'm miserable. PJ and I signed up at the local gym and I went all of 1 time until April 8th when everything changed. Something clicked and I had motivation and determination to change. I signed up for the Detroit Free Press Half Marathon on Oct. 20, 2013. On April 8th I went out and bought new running shoes and a reliable scale. I was 178.2 pounds for the very last time. I went on my first run and haven't stopped since. On June 2nd I ran the Dexter-Ann Arbor 5K at 167.6 lbs.

This blog was meant to help me continue to be motivated as I complete my weight loss and running journey. It was meant to be an outlet for my constant rambling on all things running (my husband, family and friends are getting real tired of my jabbering!). It's also to help me connect with other people who are like me and have struggled with weight in the past or present. There is strength in numbers and we can all use more motivation and strength at some time or another.

Thanks for reading!

<3 Kali