Who am I and why am I making this blog?

Hello, my name is Kristen and I am just a twenty-four-year-old girl on her journey to find health and happiness. My whole life I have struggled with my weight- partly due to genetics and mostly due to an unhealthy relationship with food. Growing up food was a big part of life and I carried that into my adulthood. I could eat what I wanted, when I wanted. My eating habits were based more so on desire and emotions, less on hunger. I did not have the self-control needed to ask myself- do you really need that? Do you honestly want that? Is it worth it? Are you even hungry? For years I have been “trying” to lose weight and get healthy. I would make small changes here and there, but nothing dramatic. What I have recently learned is that -for me at least- if you want dramatic results you need to make dramatic changes. I don’t know exactly what clicked in my head that finally started me on the path that I am on now, but I have never been this motivated and dedicated to getting healthy. I always knew that I didn’t want to be obese forever. When I thought about the future, I didn’t see myself this way. I picture myself having a family, being active, hiking, going on adventures. My biggest motivation was that I am 24, which I know is still young, but I realized I kept picturing myself as someone that I wasn’t on the outside. If I just kept envisioning myself as someone in the future instead of making steps to make it happen in reality- would it ever actually happened? Would I ever be the person I am on the inside? Those realizations sparked my motivation to give it the honest try at losing weight. My best effort. I didn’t start my lifestyle change with the idea that I was doing the ketosis diet. However, with the more research I did I realized I was already mostly following the keto “rules” and decided to learn some more and change my lifestyle to a strict keto diet. In my first month of doing the keto diet, I lost 21 pounds. It has now been a little over 6 weeks and I have lost 29 pounds. Nothing I have ever done before in the past has given me the results that keto has. I feel so much better on the inside and out. My energy levels are higher, and my self-confidence is slowly but surely rising. For the first time I feel as if I might someday actually look on the outside how I feel on the inside. I am nowhere near where I want to be, but I am closer to that person than I was six weeks ago. I am a work in progress, and this blog is simply a way for me to get all my changing thoughts and emotions out, as well as to track my progress. I will be posting any random thoughts I have regarding my weight loss, any recipes I discover, eating habits, and updates on my progress, etc. I am in no way an expert on keto, this is just what is working on me for my body and how I feel about it. If I help someone along the way, then that’s an added bonus.