Now that I have a few minutes-- I'm 26, mother of a busy 3 year old daughter and wife to a Marine. We are always on the go!
Anyway-- I have been a little overweight since I was 4 years old. It just was kind of like that for me. As I got older, my weight just started creeping up. During high school I joined the Track and Field team and lost an astonishing 60 pounds in 4 months. Don't ask me how I did it, it just happened. I went from 262 to 200-- Then I went to college. I was a swing dancer in college and lost another 30 pounds or so my freshman year, leaving me at 170. I was so pleased because I looked and felt better than I had my entire life. I left college halfway through my sophomore year because I felt I was wasting my money being so indecisive. I had also put on 15-20 pounds in the 5 months of one semester. Dejected, defeated, depressed I went home to the middle of a very messy divorce between my parents. My weight went up again. I left to move to Houston, TX (I was living in MA) and my weight creeped back down a bit. Then I moved to California and it went down a bit more-- but I was still in a size 16 or so (I didn't have a scale). Then I moved back to New England. In 2003 I got pregnnat with my daughter. I was 250 pounds when I found out I was pregnant, and 305 when I delivered her (January 15, 2004). I lost 40 pounds really quick (water weight), and then was stuck. Fast forward a bit- December 31, 2004 I got married-- I wore a size 20 pants to my court house wedding, and then in January moved to North Carolina, where my husband was stationed (Cherry Point). I was horrified when I finally bought a scale to see that my weight was 277 pounds. My husband was deployed, and while he was gone I lost 40 pounds. I worked out harder than I ever had, because I didn't have to do anything else. When we moved up here (Quantico, VA), I gained a crazy amount of weight. I gained everything I had lost PLUS 12 pounds. I was at 291 and feeling pretty sorry for myself-- as well as feeling unable to move or anything (did I mention, I'm 5'8). So here I am, at 287 or so and DONE with being overweight. I'm just finished with it. A bunch of my friends and coworkers have lost staggering amounts of weight with SBD, so I decided to give it a try. I'm really hoping this works. As a mom with a full time job and wife to a Marine (demanding job in itself), I've got to do something that I can stick with and loose weight so I can be around for my daughter and my husband. Here is to loosing the weight and being healthy!!!! I don't even care how long I stay on Phase 1-- I'd like to really get used to not eating bread like it is the end all of my existance. Until that addicion is cured, I'm not moving onto Phase 2. LoL.