Glad to be aboard then girls!
I ended up in Spain basically because we (my fiance Barry and I) wanted to try something different, we came to have a look around an area we'd never been to before and loved it, then through an amazing stroke of luck Barry got offered a job, which meant we then had no reason not to come. A year after we moved here, my parents and my youngest sister and her then fiance (now her husband) moved over too! All in all it's been great, we're getting pretty good with the language and we've just moved into a new home which we've been renovating for the last year with spanish builders!!! Not easy but well worth it. However it has meant that since April (when we sold our last home)till September we've been living with my parents, which was like visiting for 6 months in terms of the amount of food and drink we had - so the weight just piled on even more!
However now there can be no more excuses. I have my own kitchen and plenty of time to cook healthy meals. It's a little difficult to get low fat foods here but I'm going to try and look on the positive side of that as it means i have to use a lot more fresh produce and cook from scratch which ultimately tastes better too. I can't believe I've been fat for so long now. I was always one of those people who could eat any amount of food and never put weight on, but that changed when I hit 26 and met Barry. All of sudden we were going out for meals a lot or having cosy nights in with a pizza and a movie - you know how it goes. At first it was even a bit cute, after all putting on weight like that is a sign of contentment isn't it? But before you know it, as you said Amanda, you're a size 18!!
Anyway I've decided to go back on the WW diet as I have all the info and cookery books, plus I cannot eliminate specific foods - that makes me sooo miserable. The only thing I miss is the structure of the meetings and weigh ins which is why I thought it would be good idea to join in here. Let's see how I've been doing at weigh in tomorrow! 6lbs is good over a month Amanda, and you're exercising too which is something I really need to do. Well I'll go now and leave room for other people
Lou