Hello everyone,
I'm Betony, and I have over 100 lbs to lose (sigh). I've been heavy my whole life, but I need to lose it -- not only do I want to lose it for me, but I'm also going into Nursing school in August and I'm currently working as an aide, and it's hard work when you're carrying around an extra 100 lbs. I want to be a good role model for health, and just don't feel like it right now when I look like an inflated balloon. My schedule is really insane for the next two weeks (working 60+ hours plus school part time) but will return to manageable levels (40 or less hours work, part time school) after that, and I want to take the next couple of weeks to make a plan of attack on this fat.
Problem is, I don't know where to start to actually get to where I want to go. I have a health club membership, and will be going regularly, but I'm intimidated at the amount of weight I need to lose. For those of you who are working on this same battle, what's working for you? Did you start out with little steps and eventually start losing, or did you change your whole life all at once? What do you do to keep yourself going? What did you concentrate on first? Food? Exercise?
I know deep down that I can do this, and need to do this, and I'd really like to know how to do it! LOL So any advice you can give will be well-heard and hopefully I can let my inner beauty be seen on the outside too.