Hello and thanks for this forum! I stumbled across it by accident while blog surfing. I am hoping that with the help and support that seems to be abundant on this board I'll be able to stick to it, to loose the fudge factor that seems to haunt me.
I come from a family that has fought obesity it's entire life. My father was over 500lbs, mother 300lbs, sister and I both fight it as well. Both parents had surgery that helped them with the battle. My father was around 300lb when he passed away. My mother has been able to keep herself around 170 and is very happy.
As a child my mom drug me along to her Weight Watchers meetings as well as OA and AA. I like that last one the best as I could eat all the olive and cream cheese triangle sandwiches during the meeting!
I was married for 18 years to a man who never felt I was thin enough, I was too fat, too fourty and too frumpy. He is now TOO out of my life, thankyouverymuch. I now have the support of a man who would do anything for me and is very supportive of my efforts to get healthy, no matter how short lived they are at times.
I have two children, a tall, slender son 17 and a daughter who is 11 and unfortunatly for her, she got my chubby genes.
I've done WW, JC, Nutrasystem, Phen-Phen, etc. I just don't know where to start this time. Due to my lifestyle at this time in my life I am leaning towards calorie counting and walking.
I own a small pizza restaurant and stand behind the counter six days a week from 9 till 4pm. My downfall is beer. I love beer. I can do without the pizza, so I eat a salad with chicken everyday for lunch. I am going to study up on calorie counting, buy some low fat dressings and go to work with a new outlook on eating. I'll invest in tea and water instead of diet sodas and beer.
I'm going to try to get up earlier every morning and walk for an hour before work. My evenings are dedicated to my daughter who lives with me and chatting with my son via AIM. I have plenty of chores to do in the evenings and only one day a week off, Sunday. That is our family day. We are good to ourselves in that we most always begin our day on Sunday with a good one hour walk. I don't have the time or the funds for a gym membership, although the Curves commercial on tv has me trying to figure out how I can squeeze that into my schedule and budget.
I would love the support of others to help keep me in check. It would be wonderful if there were another person living in my area that would help get my big butt out of the house when my motivation level is low!
Thank you in advance for any replies, and for this great website!
