[marymilton75]

Hi everyone! I'm glad to finally say that I'm ready to lose this weight. I've always heard that "You'll know when you're ready" and I always believed that I was messed up or something because I never knew when I was ready. I'd start a diet but quit days later. But, now, I'm truly ready. My fat has been weighing on my mind a lot lately and my 91 year old grandmother passed away a few days ago from a heart attack. I called her Big Granny. I always had a Little Granny and a Big Granny because quite frankly one was skinny and one was obese. Today, as my 2 year old grandson was running around at a birthday party, the thought crossed my mind...will I be alive when he has grandchildren like my grandmother was. For a second, I thought sure because my Big Granny has always been big and has lived this long but I quickly thought about the differences in our life styles and although she has always been overweight, she was more active and ate more home cooked meals than me. At 41, I'm not ready to die. I'm not ready to give up and I am most certainly not ready to die because I refused to stop eating and refused to work out because it didn't fit nicely inside of my planner.
Sorry for being so long winded in my introduction...but, that is what lead me on this journey tonight. I'm finally ready. I am 5'7, 340 lbs and in desperate need of ideas on where to begin. I'm pretty healthy other than having hypothyroidism and plantar fasciatis in my left foot. I don't have high blood pressure....yet (and I don't want it!) So, any suggestions would be great!!