Catch up (part 2)

OK...I am going to start posting my weight loss. I will have you know this is not an easy task for any woman much less one who has zero self esteem. But tracking the loss will be a HUGE boost in that category!

Here's where I stand....about a month ago I stood on the scale when I had to donate plasma and was in utter shock and embarrassment, I had reached my all time highest weight at 261lbs. I could hardly believe it! What was my first instinct? Go eat a bag of chips or something! That would make me feel better! NOT!

Well, since then according to the Wii, I started out at 256 on February 2nd. So I think I will take that as my starting weight and go from there!

Catch-up!

OK going to catch a you all to where I am now.....

At the beginning of this year a friend of mine started a "club" on facebook to hold each other accountable for their food intake and exercise!(great idea) but at that point I wasn't really motivated to be sharing what I wasn't doing! Then, they decide to meet once a week and work out together! I made sure I always had something going on that day because I wasn't comfortable working out with girls that were half my size.

Then, a few weeks later, OK maybe about a month or two ago, I went to my friend Candi's house and tried out her Wii Fit! Completely falling in love with it! I decided this is what I am going to do! Because honestly, I could do it in the privacy of my home and NO ONE could see me!

So out I went and bought it! Worked out every morning for 1/2 hour! Loving how it made me feel! Also, at the same time feeling a since of accomplishment that I was finally doing something about my weight! After the first week, I weighed myself and had the biggest disappointment....nothing. So i figured whats the point. Why continue when there was no results! So what now.....Hardees' looked good, and that's where I found myself! Food......turn to food

Well, I knew that eating Hardees' wasn't going to take the weight off. It was going to be alot of hard work on my part. The thing I had to think about was am I strong enough and do I want this bad enough! I finally found my answer.....YES! Yes... I want it bad enough and I AM strong enough to do it!

So to present dated, I have gone back to the gym with a few of my girlfriend(you know who ya r thanks for the confidence boost!) almost every day. I have done a good 2 miles on the treadmill and some weights and I started to go the girls group on Tuesdays to work out with them!

Finally, Monday stepped on the Wii and found I am only 2lbs away from my first 10lb goal! Yeah!

p.s. I haven't worked out on the Wii much in the last 2 weeks becasue I find that being in the company of friends makes the work out seem to go so much faster!

Well, here I go!

I hope I can do this! I am about to bare all! Here is my story~

I have struggled with my weight since I was in high school. I was never really "big", I was a swimmer so I had muscle, but I was never "skinny!" After graduation, I moved to Maryland to be a nanny! Fun yes, lonely YES! So I found my comfort in food! Mass quantities of food! Bags of chips in a sitting....3, 4 king size candy bars, fast food, you name it I consumed it! When I came home after a year, I put on 40lbs!

When I came to the point of really looking at myself, I ate because I looked the way I did! I had an older sister that was a stick and a mom that had gone though Weight Watchers and was also a stick and then there was me! So of course I ate more because it was what I did best! (By no means am I using them as an excuse. I put the weight on all by myself.)

Then I met my husband at collage! He was all of 145lbs. Can we say intimidating? After we got married and starting having babies the weight continued to pile on. I tried all sorts of "diet pills", quick weight loss tricks you name it! Then after my second son was born, I went on a Dr. prescribed diet pill! Hallelujah! Something that worked....I went from a size 18/20 to a 16 and I felt great! I was out walking and loving the new me! Well, to make the happy story sad, I stopped taking the pill and all that weight came back and then some A LOT of some!

By now, I was having my 3rd baby and put on even more weight with that pregnancy. (I have to say though with my pregnancies with the boys I never gain a pound, in fact with my first I lost 20lbs and with the second I lost 25lbs.)

Between the stress of kids, working , a marriage, I found my comfort still in food. It was the one thing that I could always count on.

Now, I'm about to change that! So if you want to come along with me on my new adventure, I would love to have you! Like I said, if I can encourage just one person, then my story has done its job!

Here I go..........................