A little intro about who I am, why I’m doing this, and why you might have been in these shoes before.
**First Blog Post Ever, Feb 2020**
So basically it goes like this, my name is Josie Schieffert and I’ve been 21 for about 8 months. Like most 21 year olds, I am trying to figure out the rest of my life while simultaneously working to save money for apartment rent and cramming in as many concerts, trips, and nights out as humanly possible. BUT, I ALSO want to look good and feel good, amirite?
**Insert background info for those who care to read it**
In high school I was a 3 sport athlete who could run on 5 hours of sleep and was more active than I could even fathom now lol…some of you might already understand the hurdle that comes next. I went to college and quickly realized that consuming a plate full of meat and potatoes with a side of something that was maybe green while enjoying the freedom to take afternoon naps followed by wine nights with the girls doesn’t add up quite the way I wish it did. Add on top of that 6 months spent abroad in Australia where I lived what I might consider my best life, and where nightly “jugs” of beer at the tennis club were just the thing to do, and Tuesday night snack was donuts at 9 p.m., all of a sudden I didn’t even recognize myself or the habits I had built unintentionally. I was on top of the world, and quite frankly the culture in Aussie supported that. I was confident and happy!
Fast forward to returning to the United States and the second half of my junior year of college where reality quickly smacked me in the face like a Mac truck. I denied it for the first month of being home because, well, now I was back home and that consisted of meeting up for dinner with all the loved ones I hadn’t seen in 6 months!! How could I shape up with a schedule like that?!
And then the next thing was a j-term (or the month of January) spent in Italy where the table wasn’t set without a heaping bowl of pasta AND bread AND wine! You can’t go live out the Eat in Eat, Pray, Love without consuming pasta for 90% of your meals, that would just be a plain sin.
Moral of the story, and something I’m not proud of, over the course of 3 years (2.5 in the U.S. at college, and .5 abroad in Aussie) I went from 175lbs to 225lbs…PPL, that is 50 pounds!! And let me tell you, it WAS NOT 50 lbs of muscle lol. To be honest, I had no idea how I got there, I didn’t feel like it actually happened.
Soooo anyways,
Here I am,
Sharing with you my ragged, raw, but relentless journey.
In the posts to follow, I will give you a briefing on what February 2019-July 2019 was like for me and then dive in on the journey that I never imagined I would be embarking on, and when I say NEVER, I truly mean that. I never thought I would be training for a half marathon, but more to come on that later.
Welcome, and thanks for stopping by, I’m glad you’re here.
Josie's Journey 