Ok, so I really hope that I am doing this right! I havent ever used a site like this before so hopefully the dang introduction shows up in the right place along with everyone else's! Oh look, a dancing carrot--->
Wow, that was amusing lol.
So HI, I live in Alaska and I probably wont disclose much beyond that because Im just leary about posting my city and state and job and anything more about myself on the internet. I would like to first say that I have come a very long way over the past year in learning to love and accept myself, which those of you also trying to lose weight, I am sure you have read it in many places but that really truly is the first step in this process. I gained the weight after having my only child and seemed to gain about 5 pounds a year after that. I know to some of you are probably going "Is she serious???? What a whiner!" HA, yeah well I know that but I really am here for the same, VERY REAL reason many of you are: trying to find a support system to get over that last leg or to help motivate me. My big hang up is not o much TIME for exercise right now but more like the drive to DO IT. I have a elliptical trainer that keeps having issues so it doesnt work properly and OF COURSE I lost the warranty paperwork and so I can't get it fixed. I can't really afford a gym and even if I could I am a single mom and my child is already at school and in after school care 10 hours a day so who am I to even CONSIDER taking him to a gym childcare for another hour or so so I can exercise??
I am not as healthy as I could be about my food choices but luckily so far I have kept off the 18 pounds that I have lost since August. I know if I had been focusing on my goals and not being LAZY that I would be a lot closer to my weight goal and would have reached it by my 25th birthday which was my goal all along but I got side tracked and stopped trying. And I know that only I have the power to change my physical appearance which has been bothering me for the past 6 years, I am just having some serious difficulty making myself exercise and not only that knowing how much of it to do to actually start seeing a difference. I hope we can all reach our goals together! Glad to be part of the community
Alaskan New to the site
