I've posted here before but I'm finally ready to make a serious effort to losing weight. I bought a copy of 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet and am currently on the Weight Watchers chapter. I've always been heavy and right now I'm around 260 with 270 being my heaviest. For the longest time I'd had myself resolved to thinking I would just have to live with being heavy because this is the hand I'd been dealt, and in some weird way I guess being fat was a security blanket-a constant that never changed. Well, I'm not any more confortable with it today any more than I was 20 years ago so it's time to kiss it goodbye. It's not going to be any easier for me than anyone else here, it's almost like my body WANTS to be 260 cos it holds tightly to every ounce and I'm going to have one **** of a fight on my hands in getting it off. I turn 41(!)on 3/28, I'm currently not diabetic nor do I have high blood pressure and I would like to keep it that way. I live upstate NY and shorts weather is just around the corner so that in itself is motivating. I did myself a favor about 7 weeks ago-I started climbing flights of stairs in the building I work in because my thighs were too rolly-polly and I'm happy to say I am firming up, but it's not enough. I've decided to bring my sneakers to work so I can go walking on my lunch hour. I'm thinking about joining Weight Watchers but money is tight so I'd have to see about that. Staying away from the potato chips is going to be rough cos I love them and I love my salt. Wish I didn't but I do.
Anyway, Hello and Good Luck to all
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