Before Picture

OK,  as promised I am now adding a before picture. This is just as much for myself as for others to see my progress. I will be weighing tomorrow here at home and then I have my first follow-up, check up with my doctor on Tuesday so I will be posting more about my progress then. This is not a full view, but it is the picture that really got me motivated to start losing again and for the last time. In the picture is me with my hubby,  father and my oldest right after she was baptized. One of the happiest days of my life and one I will always want to remember. I just look forward to the day when I can look on this picture and not just see how big I had gotten, but remember the joyous occasion and see how far I have come.
My dear hubby, as I believe I have already posted has already lost a lot of weight since that picture. I will have to try and get a picture of him and post it soon so you all can see his progress, those of you who haven't seen him in a while will be impressed. Well anyway, here is the "before picture".
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First entry on my Diet Post

Alright, I just finished my first blog post about a week ago. Yes, I meant to post more often, but due to my dear husband spending more time on the laptop than usual I have not had the chance. After all, I spend the bigger part of my day sitting at a desk on a computer, when I get home if I want to get on the computer I only want to use the laptop on the couch or in bed, I sure don't want to use the desktop. Anyway, enough complaining. I didn't say I was going to be writing about my computer but my diet.
I will start from the "sort of" beginning. I have been overweight most of my life. When I say most I guess according to today's standards I should really say ALL of my life. My smallest size as an "adult" has been a size 13/14 when I was in collage, and that was after being sick for a very long time and living on soup. So this has been a constant struggle. I didn't really start to work on it until I got married. I know that kind of sounds weird, but I had always been that way and until I lost the weight in collage I just never knew any other way to be. After I lost that weight I was very happy at the size I was at, after all I was smaller than I had been in high school and I felt I looked pretty good.
Then that wonderful thing called motherhood happened. I remembered how much fun it was to eat while I was pregnant. There was no stopping me then. You know when you have four children in the first 6 years of your marriage there really is very little time to diet and a lot of time to eat! I remember that I would try to exercise and all between pregnancies only to find out that I was pregnant again. Well after four children and gaining I don't know how much weight I finally had enough. I told my husband that I wanted to start Weight Watchers. He told me that if that is what I wanted to do he would sign me up. I really did pretty good on it, the first time. I lost about 60 pounds and was feeling so good. Then the dreaded happened, the lose started to get slower and slower. Then I got sick for about a month and a half and stopped working out, and then it was Christmas time and since I wasn't working out or doing well on my WW, we might as well save some money and end my membership, you  can guess where it goes from there. Now a little more than a year later and most of the weight is back.I tried to go back on WW a couple of more times, only to give up-or never really start- again and again.
Then one day my husband was talking to our doctor and he told him about a weight loss program he and his wife had been on. He too was some overweight and so he thought he would try it. Well the weight started to drop off of him. I mean drop. He lost so much weight and so quickly. I started to feel very depressed, and even fatter. Did I do what he did, no, it scared me to death. I couldn't imagine eating so few calories, not to mention it seemed soooo restrictive. I just love food way too much. He kept telling me that I should try it, he said I would love it. I was very skeptical, but he finally talked me into it.
On July 5th of this year I started the same program. I am glad to report that so far so good. As of this past Monday I have lost 13 lbs. That is pretty good considering I haven't even been on it for a month. I will keep you all up to date on my progress. Sorry for the long story to get to this point, but I thought it would be good to give some background. I will try and post some before and progress pictures soon. Thanks for reading and
TTFN

Let's get started

OK, I know everyone always starts out their blogs this way but for real, I have never done this before so please bare with me. I am by no means a professional writer, and I don't even lead some grandiose life, I am just a regular person with everyday, not really that interesting, things going on. I don't have anything to sell, I am not a professional at anything, and I don't do reviews (although I may post things from time to time that interest me or that I really like or don't like). OK, have I board you enough? Are you still there? Well if you are, I guess I will get started.

I don't really know what has started me on the blog thing except that "All My Friends Are Doing It". I know that is the one thing that we tell our kids is not good to do, but hey, I have some good friends and so I guess it isn't a bad thing to do what they are doing? This all started when I ran across my friend "Pinky Chick's" blog. I loved it! She was able to write how she was feeling about things going on in her life and it was interesting to read. Not just because I like her and she is a new friend and it is fun to find things out about her, but because I got to read about some of her struggles and see that I am not alone. We all like to find out that there are others out there who struggle with some of the same things that we do, I guess that goes back to misery loves company? I am overweight and currently working on losing it just like she is and so even though we may be going at it in different ways, we still share the same struggles and it is always nice to see that you are not alone.

 Then I ran across another friend's blog. Her's is a lot about her family, her husband and her child. Well, I have a few kids, and yeah I am proud of them (most of the time, lol). I have a husband that I love and he has a crazy stressful job, actually the same job as her husband, so I can have an endless amount of material there, so why not write about them from time to time. She also is one of my coupon friends and she blogs about that, well I can do that too. So there was another motivator.

I then read yet another friend's blog, her's was about her family and also about her success at weight loss. OK, I am not there yet, but seeing her success gives me motivation and encouragement. Well, I think I can do that too. So when I look at all of that I thought "Why Not"?  It might be kind of therapeutic? I mean what does a mom of four (one teen, soon to be two teens) who works full time need more than therapy? Since I can't afford to see a therapist this is the next best thing, and it is free. So please bare with me, like I said before. My posts may be insightful (I doubt it, but one can hope), they might be funny, they might bring a tear, or they might just be boring, but then again, that is my life. One day I am pulling out my hair trying to figure out how I am going to go to a meeting, be home when one child gets home from camp, and spend time with her husband that she hardly ever gets to see. And another I might just be complaining because I have found a moment of down time and I am board out of my mind trying to not eat everything in the fridge? Any which way, I hope to feel some better at the end of my post.

Thanks for getting this far, if you did. I hope I didn't scare or confuse you.

 In the wise words of Tigger, TTFN