Hope for the Hopefuls

I have been trying to post this particular blog entry for 8 days now.  EIGHT DAYS, people!  Blogger has been one stubborn mofo lately but now that it's working for me again, it's time to get back on track.  

So, story time:  last summer I auditioned for The Biggest Loser.  Yep, that's right.  You probably already know from the fact that I am doing Weight Watchers and do the Weigh-In Wednesday post (coming soon I might add) that my weight is a bit of an issue for me.  It hasn't always been that way, but for the last 10 or 11 years it has.  I was super skinny until I was about 13 and then the pounds started coming on and they've stayed on.  Well, a year ago (May 2010) I decided I was sick of being overweight and decided to change.  I started journaling my food, allowing myself 2,000 calories a day and exercising every day to Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred (an AWESOME DVD that I plan to do a review on at some point).  My efforts paid off: I had lost 20 pounds and was feeling pretty good.  Then I saw that The Biggest Loser was casting for season 11.  There was no audition listed for Michigan so I decided not to even bother with it.  But then curiosity got the better of me and I checked it out a couple of days later and lo and behold, there was a Michigan casting call!  It just so happened to be the day after a payday, on one of my days off, and about 10 minutes away from my aunt's house downstate!  It seemed like it was a sign, everything had fallen into place and I was going to audition for the show and blow them away and be cast.  My life was going to change!  Except it didn't.  Well, actually it did but not in the way I was expecting.  I went to the casting call, talked to the casting director for about 60 seconds and that was it.  I never got a callback, nothing.  Feeling discouraged, my weight loss journey stopped until I joined Weight Watchers this past March.  It turned out to be a blessing in disguise though, because had I been cast I would have had to take time off of school, preventing me from finishing this year.  Casting for season 12 has already come and gone and I was too busy with school to go for it.  Will I audition for season 13?  I go back and forth on that, right now I'm leaning towards yes but we'll see what the future brings.  The difference this time is that if I don't make it onto season 13, I won't let it get me down like it did for season 11.  I'm going to continue my journey and finish strong!

Anyway,  I wanted to share a blog with you all.  It's called Hope for the Hopefuls and it was started by a woman who tried out for season 12 and didn't make the cut.  It's about her weight loss journey and is a community for others to talk and share stories about their own journeys as well.  Check it out, it's a great blog!