My outlook has changed

As I have begun planning for my birthday extravaganza I also decided to get serious about losing weight.
I'm sure a lot of you are scratching your heads, asking yourself what weight do I have to lose?
My goal is 15% of my current weight.
Go ahead and roll your eyes. Tell me I'm so skinny, that I don't need to lose anything. That's fine, I've heard that ever since I started battling my weight.

For years I could eat what I wanted and I was super skinny without trying. I had a rockhard stomach, good looking legs and arms, hardly any fat on my petite frame. My weight hardly varied from 17 - 22, I was a small 106 lbs at 5ft tall. Then something changed. Something triggered a weight gain that will remain numberless. And it just kept going until it finally plateaued last summer.

No longer was I this tiny thing with a rockhard stomach. Clothes didn't fit or were too tight. I could eat healthy and nothing changed. I was stuck.

As I battled unhappiness on and off after my move to Lufkin, I didn't think much about my weight. It bothered me, but I was so busy working hard at starting my career that I really didn't have much effort left to give the problem.

I have always worked hard at everything in my life. School, work, relationships, family, hobbies, extracurriculars. I'm dedicated, competitive, a perfectionist, and never happy with what I achieve.
I can always do better.
So for me to not to work on something I knew I was doing awful at and bothered me, really blows my mind the more I think about it.
I work hard. That's just who I am.

SO, as of September 21st, I have started to pour energy into my efforts to get my body back into shape. I've started a diet. I've started walking the neighborhood and doing crunches. I have a new outlook, and I am not going to let myself waver in this effort.