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A guide to weight loss from a pretty awesome Black girl... follow me on my journey from 330lbs to personal trainer! 
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I’ve never been good at these kinds of intros, so you’ll have to pardon me for jumping all over the place.
I’m a young woman who has fought problems with weight loss for years. After picking up weight at a rate of 20 lbs a year, I finally decided to slow down, take some time to assess what I was doing to myself and why it was happening so fast. What was I doing so wrong?
After taking a lot of time to myself, I worked out, took my emotional eating into consideration, and sure enough my weight started to fall off. I learned things about myself and my interaction with food that I never heard any other woman address… and I can’t help but wonder.. why? Maybe that’s part of the reason why obesity is so prevalent in our society? Men are comfortable with dating a heavier woman because they saw how powerful their mothers were despite the extra weight they carried. Women are comfortable carrying extra 
weight because there’s so much more to be concerned about and, well, since their peers are carrying extra weight as well, no one’s going to call them out on it. Right? Or, what’s more… how about no one addresses the problem because no one knows exactly how to go about solving it?
I don’t think I have all the answers. I DO know that the answers I DO have are the ones that have helped me lose – and continue to lose all the weight that I’ve shed over the course of one year. The knowledge that I’ve developed over this year will change my life, and it’s unfair for me to horde it all for myself when I know my sisters – regardless of whether or not you’re a sista, per se 
– could benefit from hearing it.
Over the years, the blog has been featured everywhere from Zora & Alice to Clutch Magazine to Woman’s Day to Yahoo! Health to NPR. There are well over 17,000 members of the blog’s facebook page, over 4,000 twitter followers and several thousand e-mail subscribers. The BGG2WL network is strong, supportive and successfully enlightening people all across the world about how to live healthily and happily.
PS: If you’re looking for a more in-depth understanding of my growth in fitness, read “A Very Big Piece of My Weight Loss Story” and “A Year Ago Today.”
I thank you for this site.
Something about you and this blog is resonating with me. This journey of serious weight loss and focuss may just well be my birthday gift to myself.
I am going to read your blog cover to cover, post-to-post!
I absolutely love what i have read so far. I am 33yo, married mother of three, and I have gained so much weight since having my last child. I am so ready to get in the health/weight loss game. Im tired of being overweight and it is wearing on my body!!! I look forward to the challenges and advice offered here.
You are a living doll! Love you. Put cha in my instant links to keep up and motivated. I worked another 8 lbs off this beautiful body o mine. Thanks for sharing! Bless!!!!
Kept seeing ‘a black girls….to weight loss. new to the sight. Whated to read up- for the past year, have been trying to eat healthy, designated meal time, etc. it’s hard but…. so I’ll be looking to see what works best.
I’m so glad I stumbled onto this site!!! I realized that for the first time I am mentally prepared to start shedding the pounds – I was just unsure of how to get started. I’m excited to look thru your site and see what tidbits I can learn (looks like alot!) Thanks for sharing your journey with us!!!!
Love this blog! I’ve followed fitness and food blogs for awhile but I have yet to come across a Black Woman chronicle her transformation as well as you have done with yours. Kudos to you! You’re an inspiration and I’m elated that you’ve decided to share your story with the world. Weight loss isn’t easy… we all have to take it one day at a time but with support from one another we can change the alarming statistics of obesity within the African American community. I wish you continued success in all of your endeavors Erika! Keep up the fantastic work
I am completely inspired by what I’ve read and seen here on this blog. You are A-MAZING! Thank you for your insight and information.
Hi
I just discovered your blog and have to say kudos to you on the success and such a wonderful blog.. i really appreciate it.. while there are a lot of health blogs out there not many by black women.. i had one question though, do you have any advice for us pregnant ladies? i’m about 4 1/2 months pregnant and exercise is the last thing on my mind but my doctor says i need to do something, even if it’s just walking.. any tips?
thanks
cassie
Hey i’ve been trying to get small enough for a pair of BeBe Jeans so honey i know the struggle and I love our sight also!
I just came across your blog. I think I was linked here either from http://www.forharriet.com or http://www.thefreshxpress.com (sorry not sure). I look forward to getting to know you and your weight loss journey. I know it will encourage me to begin my journey.
Thanks so much!!!
Oh yeah, I love the blog design!!! Very wholesome and encouraging.
One of my best friends told me about this site. I am very excited to get additional cybersupport for my weightloss and lifestyle change journey. So grateful that you have decided to share this intimate story with the world.
This website is a friggin God send!
I have been lurking for several weeks just reading your daily posts on FB.
I have followed the Clean Eating menus for only 2 weeks – and have lost weight already. It was not hard or difficult -and I am a mom of three, business owner with sites in 2 states, and a wife.
You don’t know what you have done and how many people you have encouraged with this site.
Keep it up!
And no homo – lol – would like to see the progress swim suit!
that looks like a picture of you in front of fine arts, did u attend HU?
oh by the way, absolutely loved the blog. had to show my daughter a post so that she could see what her beloved chicken nuggets look like before they reach Mickey Ds.
No, I’m not a HU alum, but you’ve got a good eye – I was out there for a trip, and snapped the photo while there.
thanks so much for the info it was very interesting
WOW, what a wonderful blog. I’m very excited about exploring all the post and other information. I’ve been looking for a way to start and this is my motivation. Thank you.
I just want to stay alive, after reading your article in Essence Magazine and seeing that you were the same weight I am has inspired me. I am trying to fight the battle of the bulge. I want so many things. I want to run a marathon, I want to make love with abandon and not worry about my michelin man tire rings, I want to see if I can rock a pair of skinny jeans?? I want to see my daughter’s children…first and foremost. I want to feel good when I get out of bad, I want not to be afraid of mirrors, I want my big fat booty, to be a big PHAT booty. But second to seeing my daughter and what she will become I want to feel good about who I am, the fatter I get the less I want to go out and am finding that I am staying in more. I actually won “cut the line passes” to the Biggest Loser audition this weekend in Boston and didn’t go get them or go to the auditions because of seeing it as a positive I got down that It had come to this. I only know that I want to find that “something” inside me that turns that workout, eat right, light bulb on and gets my butt in gear. I want to be able to cross my legs and I want my boyfriend to pick me up and put me over his shoulder…is that too much to ask? I say to god, who has a lot on his plate these days….to help me acheive the most honest of my goals, help me stop hiding behind the fat because of things done to me in the past and help me to be a better person although some of my goals are vain. I want LIVE AND NOT JUST BREATH …please god hear my prayer!