So when I started my new "healthier" life I was 171lbs... rough is how I saw it. I couldn't always keep up my endurance with my Volleyball team around the track. I was never happy with the way I looked. So in November of 2010 I decided to change that. Since then I have lost and gained and lost again. My Freshman year of college was no help to my weight loss. I gained all the weight I had lost back and then some. When I went to college I was 158lbs, at Christmas break I was 176lbs. I knew something needed to change if I was going to be comfortable with myself ever again. So I made that change. I ate better, threw everything in my dorm away that wasn't healthy and I started going to the gym every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and even on the weekends. The pounds started to come off and I was so excited and proud of myself. But it wasn't as easy as it was in the past because I didn't have the support system of my mother and the ladies in my WW group. Thankfully, this summer I was able to get back on track with exercising and eating much better. As of this morning I am 156.5lbs and I'm still working to become better! I am not doing this to become skinny. I am not doing this for some boy or to fit to societies image of what a woman should look like. I am doing this to be stronger, healthier and happier. I am doing this for me. I am doing this to ensure a healthy life for myself.