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My name’s Criss. I’m a geeky 24-year-old girl hailing from southern Louisiana. I’m a card dealer, a book nerd, a cat lover, and a gamer.. and I was fat. I spent my entire adult life overweight and obese. I suffered from social anxiety and I locked myself in my house, not even seeing friends and family. I grew complacent about all aspects of my life and quit dreaming.

One day, I woke up and said, “Enough.” I did my research and decided when I moved two weeks later, that I would take my first serious step towards losing weight and being healthy.

That was a little over a year ago. Since then I’ve lost 73 pounds. That may not seem much to people, but for me, it’s incredible. Even more exciting is that I have shed these pounds through healthy weight loss in a relatively short- but reasonable- period of time. I never starved myself, juiced, or did any sort of fad diets.

This has been a very educational and exciting journey for me, and I hope to share it with everyone. I spent my entire adult life overweight with a pretty mild case of social anxiety due to my weight, and it’s refreshing to be able to live fully now. I feel healthier, I’m happier with myself, and most of my boundaries are gone. The few I have left are in the process of crumbling, too.

I have about 5ish pounds more I’d like to lose before I reach my goal weight, but I’m worried more about body composition than silly, arbitrary numbers. Weight and pant sizes are meaningless if you’re unhealthy, and I hold no illusion that being in a lower weight range automatically makes me healthier. My goals are now to be fit, strong, and healthy.

This tumblr is mostly a frivolous outlet to post silly things and pictures of fit women, but also to show the young girls on Tumblr that it IS possible to lose weight through healthy means without hating your body. Furthermore, I intend on converting as many young women as possible to the belief that you CAN lift heavy weights, that “toned” isn’t a real fitness term, that food is fuel for exercise and not the enemy, and that muscle on a woman doesn’t mean what they think it means.

Any questions are welcome, but please remember I’m neither a doctor or an expert. I can tell you what I did and recite basic knowledge regarding the science of weight loss, but I am not all-knowing.