Jessica Kelso

Well, here is my first “official” blog. I hope it’s a good one. All day I’ve been thinking about what it is I’d like to discuss in my blog, and many things have come to mind. As I was working out at the gym I decided upon discussing my weight loss attempts. The reason being…that’s all it has been. Attempts. Kevin and myself both started a “diet” January 1st of this year. Now, I’ve never been one for fad diets…and I’ve definitely never been one for starting that fad diet on New Year’s Day. It just seemed like a great time for us to start one, and we ended up doing pretty well. Kevin lost 22lbs and I lost a big fat 9lbs. It took me about 2 months to lose those 9lbs, and only about a month to gain it back. Every day I wonder where I’ve went wrong since we got off the diet, and the only thing I can come up with is going out to dinner. It’s one of the things we truly enjoy doing together. By the time the weekend rolls around, I’m sick of cooking and want a delicious meal prepared FOR me. Unfortunately, we don’t eat that good when we dine out. How can you really? It’s hard. When we eat at home, 90% of the time it’s really healthy meals. On top of trying our hardest to eat good, we both workout 4-5 days a week. I used to think all I needed to do was workout and I could eat whatever I wanted, but I’m definitely finding out that’s not true. After pondering why I can’t lose weight the whole time I was at the gym tonight…guess what we came home and ate? Nachos! Not only did we make nachos…we made the biggest nachos I’ve ever seen! SO big I had to take a picture! I guess I justify it by saying it had fat free sour cream, soy cheese, and organic chips!

I hope my attempts (not including the nachos) start kicking in soon. I bought a new bathing suit I have to wear in 2 weeks and I am not feeling very hopeful about it right now!