It's Time to Get Started! http://www.3fatchicks.com/diet-blogs/lionsmom Just another 3fatchicks.com weblog Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:27:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Figuring this out http://www.3fatchicks.com/diet-blogs/lionsmom/2009/03/09/figuring-this-out/ http://www.3fatchicks.com/diet-blogs/lionsmom/2009/03/09/figuring-this-out/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:27:56 +0000 lionsmom http://www.3fatchicks.com/diet-blogs/lionsmom/?p=3 Well, I am trying to figure this whole blog thing out.  I have never written a blog before.  I am not very good at sharing my feelings.  Well, I will start my introducing myself.  I am 29 years old.  I was very thin when I was young.  I am now 80 pounds overweight.  I just cannot seem to get my mind where it needs to be to succeed at losing the weight I need to lose or to be healthy.  I absolutely love food, particularly unhealthy food including fatty foods, fried foods, candy, sweets.  I am extremely busy, and I feel I use this as a crutch.  My family eats out a lot.  This is not only a time thing though.  We enjoy eating out with friends and sitting and talking and visiting while we eat out.  I work as a medical transcriptionist, so I do not get any exercise through work, just a lot of stress.  I also attend college full time.  I have one year left and I will graduate with a bachelor’s degree and will be able to teach.  I have also recently taken on a tutoring job 10 hours a week.  I have two children who are very active in sports and 4H.  My husband is wonderful.  He would never mention the fact that i have gained all this weight since we have been married.  I am a typical yo-yo dieter.  You name it, I have tried it.  I have tried every kind of pill there is as well as all of the programs.  Everyone says you cannot succeed at weight loss until you get your mind right.  I do feel this is true, but what I don’t know how to do is to get my mind right.  I decide I am going to work on my weight and by noon I have fallen off the wagon.  I am hoping to find the time to put my feelings out there with this blog.  I love to read people’s suggestions.  Like I said I try all sorts of things.  One last thing that really bothers me.  I feel I am very good at my job.  I also have kept a 4.0 since returning to college 3 years ago.  It really, really bothers me that I can work so hard and be successful with my job and school, and I also volunteer my time to help the organizations my children are involved in and feel I do a fairly decent job at that.  So, if I can be so successful at all of these things, “why am I always such a failure at weight loss?”

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