1,2,3... Go!

This is me. A 28-year-old woman with serious health issues, such as type 1 diabetes (for 18 years), hypothyroidism, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. At 5"4 my weight, 170 lbs, is way too much. I'm starting this blog to help me get to my goals, which are
1. keeping my blood glucose in control
2. lowering blood pressure and cholesterol
3. losing weight
4. becoming more healthy overall.

Currently I don't exercise much at all. I go to yoga once a week, do gardening and other outdoor stuff, and that's about it. This has been going on for a year now. I used to be very active! I hit the gym three to five times a week, went for one-hour walks, took spinning classes and dance classes. So I've gone from exercising 7-10 hours a week to exercising nothing. And it really shows. I used to be toned and fit, now I'm a sagging, overweight pile of cellulite. It's a radical change in both how I look and how I feel.

Lately I've been going through my old photos and realized just how radical the change in my looks has been. I want to be beautiful again, I want to look like I did in those photos. I want to be healthier so I could live a bit longer. Obviously there are reasons why I have stopped exercising and gained so much weight, and I will go to them in a separate post because it's a long story. However, this is my starting point, this is the cold hard truth about my situation, and the only way is up.