Journey to a New Life.

Hi everyone I’m Nicole. A little about myself first, well, I’m 20 years of age and an avid sports fan. Hockey is a passion and the Pens are a drug. I’m a writer for the website PensUniverse.com. During my day job I work with autistic children and sometimes juveniles. It’s a job that I love.

My main reason for this change of life is too feel better about myself. Growing up, always bigger than your friends, was tough. Once I hit middle school, the harassment was at times unbearable. But instead of working on losing weight then, I went home and ate food. Why? Because food was a comfort to me. I figured once I got into high school things would settle down as far as the harassment went, but I was terribly wrong. I managed to maintain a decent weight my freshmen year, but my sophomore year was terrible. It got so bad, that I ended going on anti-depressants and had to see a therapist every other week. I think I was the happiest person to graduate high school because I hated it so much.

At one point last summer, I tried to convince myself I was happy the way I was and “screw you if you don’t like because of the way I look”. Though I still keep that mantra, I was kidding myself about being happy. The truth was I wasn’t happy and I’m still not. That’s why I’m putting my foot down and grabbing hold of the steering wheel, I want my health and life to go in the right direction and what better time then to start now?

July 26th will be a week since Sam and I have started our adventure, it’s also our first weigh in. I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was nervous.

Now since I’m such a hockey fan, you’ll probably find I’ll be comparing and referring to certain hockey related sayings and or doings and here is the first one.

"Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it."