User Name:techwife
How did you choose your User Name?: My husband is a one-hour photo lab field service technician...tech for short...and I'm his wife!
Real Name: Kris
Where do you live?: Northern New York...near Canada, not Yonkers
Significant other?: My husband, Derek
Kids?: Shelley (11), Kyle (4)
Pets?: Cat named 'Kitty' and an Old English Sheepdog named 'Junior'
Work?: Former hairdresser, secretary and computer helpdesk coordinator and future substitute teacher...right now I'm a stay-at-home mom
Why did you chose Sugarbusters?: Because my dad (and ALL of his siblings) are diabetic and I tend to favor my dad's side of the family...thought I might start controlling insulin now while I'm still relatively young...
Start weight/Present weight/goal weight: 180/157/130 or Size 18/12/6
Favorite foods- Legal and not legal: Pizza/wings/pie/cake/twinkies/cookies and all meat except liver and un-natural things like 'tripe'...people must have been
really hard-up to try
that for the first time!!
Favorite book: All Harry Potter books or anything by Clive Cussler
Favorite Movie: Harry Potter movies or anything with Matthew McConaughey
Favorite song: Anything by Billy Joel, Barry Manilow, James Taylor, Elton John, etc...
Last book you read: Half Blood Prince
What is your biggest pet peeve?: 'Rubber necker' traffic jams. The ones where traffic ties up with one hour delays because
people are looking over the median at an accident that has nothing to do with my side of the road!!
What motivated you to lose weight?: My crying jag in Old Navy as I was growing out of a size 16
Something you like about yourself: I tend to try empathize with people instead of judging them
Something you would like to change about yourself (and you can't say your weight on this one!) : I would like to be more organized, be less of a procrastinator and have less clutter in my house
If you could meet one famous person, past or present, who would it be, and why?: My mother-in-law. I've
always wanted a mother-in-law and when I finally got one, she died of cancer and I never even got to meet her. She lived in California...not exactly an afternoon drive...
If you could visit anywhere in the world, where would you go?: Any place in Europe...but mostly Great Britain.
Your dream job: I really like being a mom...but if I had to pick a career, I'd like to be a meteorologist. Not on TV, but like a hurricane hunter or some other behind-the-scenes job
Do you have a reward in mind for when you reach your goal? What is it? Well, unrealistically, I might have to have a boob job to bring them back from the southern hemisphere and back up north where they belong...but I doubt I'd have the nerve. Other than that, I'm going to buy a really great wardrobe...in a size 6...but I may settle for an 8.
Anything else?: Losing weight has been a bit of a challenge for me until I started Sugar Busters. Until the late 90's, I was always a size 6 and never really thought much about maintaining or anything. I think my 50lb weight gain was stress related and no matter how much salad I ate and how much exercise I did, I could not lose a pound and they just kept multiplying on me like...like...I don't know what!! Now that life is sweet, I am looking forward to feeling like my old self again. I flat-out refused to go to my 20 year class reunion a couple summers ago because I didn't want people saying "Jeez...did you see how
fat Kris got?" Maybe we'll have a 25 reunion and if I'm looking like myself, I'll go then.