3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community

I'm Jennifer (31) from GA. My hubby and I have 3 sons, and it seems like I've gotten progressively heavier after each child - I was 118 when I got pregnant with my oldest, and I hit 226 by the time my youngest was 10 months old. :( I started trying to reverse that trend a few weeks ago, and I'm down 10 pounds, but I still have a looooong way to go. Sometimes it just seems impossible and that it's going to take forever to get back to a healthy weight, but I owe it to myself, my children, and my husband to be healthy enough to do all the things we like to do, so I'll keep plugging away, I guess!

I have several things working against me that are really hard for me to overcome. For one thing, I'm still nursing my youngest son and will until he self-weans (within reason, of course - I don't plan to still be nursing him in college ;) ), and, unlike *most* people, I gain weight while nursing. Another thing is that my hubby works really weird shifts, and that has our meal structure pretty messed up, so my brain has a hard time knowing when it's supposed to tell me I'm hungry these days. Also my MIL lives with us, and she is constantly bringing home fast food; she's an adult, so I can't exactly tell her what she can and can't get for herself, but having it in the house all the time really messes with my self-control!

Right now I'm following the basic principles of Volumetrics, but not doing any kind of structured plan with it; I have had the hardest time feeling full for the last year, so finding foods that I can constantly snack on has really helped me not to backslide (much, anyway... lol). I haven't really done much exercise yet, but now that it's starting to get nice outside I hope to change that.

I'm generally a fairly quiet poster, but I look forward to getting to know everyone!