ALLISON

hey everyone!!1 i am the 2 "L" aLLison with black/brown hair.

10 things you must know about me right now:
1. i am obsessed with cardigans.
2. i have a super hot husband and two godly creatures i call my children.
2.5. one of those children will forever be a baby as he passed away at 42 days old.
3. i really love elvis presley.
4. i starting dancing at age 2. led to dance teams in high school and college. now i just partake by watching.
5. i have problems with collections. things need to be complete. it bothers me if my marker pack is missing a marker (for example).
6. i am insanely fun - at heart. i think my weight has caused my fun meter to die down - A LOT
7. i was bulimic/anorexic from age 17-24. this helped maintain my weight. you can see what happened after i stopped making myself throw up. (not that i regret that decision, to stop throwing up, but it was untreated and led to another disorder called - EMOTIONAL EATING)
8. i have a masters degree that i am not currently using.
9. i love to exercise. but it is so exhausting emotionally and physically to get dressed for it, that i fail to complete the task.
10. i don't like to write in complete sentences. i hate capitalizing. and i use periods and dashes a lot in my incomplete sentence structure... 

the following video was made in march 2011 for the biggest loser audition. i tried out with - you guessed it - my bestie ali. this video tells a lot about how i got to the point that i am at right now, mostly regarding weight gain/loss. at the point of the video i was around 240 LBS...


since this video, i have gained over 30 LBS. what??? you say. that is crazy. i know. and that is why i am trying the one thing i have never tried/stuck to in my life. good old fashion diet and exercise. so here we go.