Just wanted to stop and introduce myself, this is the 3rd time I've written this, the internet keeps freezing up or I somehow get redirected so I'm going to try this again! I've been meaning to join and have been staring at the wesite for the last couple weeks.
My name is Sara, I'm 28, I'm orginally from Michigan but after I married my husband I took up residence in Indiana. We have an 8 month old son together. I've always been overweight / weighed more than I've wanted to. I've tried dieting on my own, joined a place called Medical Weight Loss Center. I did ok on that I lost about 20lbs while doing it. The only issue I had was they gave you a card with what you were allowed to eat, how much you could have a day / week. And they wanted you to buy their supplements and eat 3 a day, there were 7 in a box and they were $15 a box. I just simply couldnt afford it anymore. And I got SO bored with the food because you could only ever have certain things over and over and over.
In 2012 I had our son in May I had to have an Emergency C Section because he was stuck and after 15hrs of labor they wanted to get him out. So I now have the lovely C Section pooch and it looks awful in my jeans, sweatpants, it's embarassing! And looks awful! I breast fed and never lost any weight either after being told I could breast feed and not have to worry about my weight becasue it would just fall off. Pssh ok.
I got married in October and my dress was a 16 it fit amazing I didnt have to have it altered or anything but I know like all women know dress sizes vary. So when my friend asked me to be in her wedding this May I of course said yes. Well we had to order the dress off the stores website to get the good sale price on it so I just went off of what the size of my other bridesmaid dress for several years ago was. Well its fits but it fits to well. It's not tight anywhere but my stomach. I saw myself in it and wanted to vomit. I can see where my belly button indents when I have the dress on. I saw that and knew I needed to lose some weight I dont want to look like I was stuffed into my dress or try to buy all sorts of corsets or anything to squeeze myself into it and be uncomfortable all night.
So I told my husband that I want to lose weight and a lot of it like 100lbs. I want to feel good about myself and look good. I want to be able to run around and play with my son when he gets older and when we decide to have another baby here in a year or so I want to have that sexy pregnant lady body, I want to be the skinny girl with the big baby bump. I also want to be done shopping in the plus size section!
I've always been trying / wanting to lose weight but the one thing that really made me mad was at Christmas my mother in law bought me a shirt, nothing I'd ever wear. Well she bought a 2XL. I usually wear an XL. Well her reasoning was "well I wear a 1XL and I just figured you probably needed a size bigger than I wear" Now mind you her and I are about the same size. I put the shirt on just for the sake of it to try it on and it was huge on me so I returned it. But that really made me mad that she would do that and then say something like that to me and buy me something larger than I wear on purpose.
So I am going to talk to Weight Watchers and see about joining their new 360 program because I have talked to a lot of people who have had good luck with WW and you can eat real food!
Some of my biggest obsticals are losing motivation, lack of space to work out ( We live in a small 2 bedroom apt) and its COLD outside! So when its cold out I really dont like to outside. My food obsticals are I hate fish, I'm not a huge veggie fan and I'm constantly on the go so I want / need easy fast meals to prepare or even stuff I can make on my days off for the rest of the week. So any tips, suggestions anything will be greatly appreciated!