I’m starting this blog to hold myself accountable for my own health. So, I guess I will start with the basics.

My name is Anna Hilario. I am 29 years old and the mother of a 10 – year old boy named Xzavier. I am currently residing in Westchester County, NY. I am hairdresser and have been doing hair for the past five years. I recently got engaged to the greatest man I’ve ever met.

Now that you know a little about me, let’s get to why we’re here. If you are reading this, you may be a friend I told about this blog and want to be supportive by reading it. If that is the case, thank you. If you are not a friend being supportive and just someone whom my random blog has reached in the infinite cosmos that is the internet, well then, damn, this place really is magic. And that being said, welcome. I don’t know how you came across this or what brought you to the google search that ultimately led you here. I can’t promise that this blog will at all be informative and give you some grand knowledge into the secret to successful weight loss, but I can tell you what it will be. It will be honest and I’m going to try to be as completely raw as my mind lets me.

So, I got the idea to create this blog as I was leaving the gym I am currently donating my money to. I say donating because this gym membership isn’t new. This wasn’t my first workout at this gym. But I can’t say I am a participating member of this facility either. The truth is, when it comes to working out, I have had very little motivation to do so for a very long time. I have been in, what seems like, an unbeatable struggle with my weight and health for upwards of 10 years.

I say this and somehow it still shocks me that for the past 10 years I have felt like I had zero control of my body. And as I type that, I’m thinking to myself, how can I say that? If I haven’t had control of my own body, who have I given the control to? What have I given the control to? How do I get it back?

In a way, I guess, this is me telling myself enough is enough. I must get down to root of this problem. I must take back control and love myself enough to go on this journey. To finally, for once, be nicer to myself than I am to everyone else. I must be selfish and do this for me. So here goes.