I finally decided what to blog about and I am excited and a little scared. This blog is going to be very personal. I am hoping that it will help others out there that have had similar problems. I am in my 40's and very over weight. I tried forever to loose the weight, going from one program to another. It has taken me this long to realize that the only way to take it off and keep it of is a total life style change. I know you have heard this before and it really is true. I am going to bring you on my journey with me as I do some very hard soul searching and loose the weight. I have already started on my journey so I will have to back up a little to the beginning. You are going to be with me as I have success and even if I have failures. I will also try out different weight loss products and review them for you.
Where do I begin? Childhood of course! I come from a family with 6 children. I am number 5. My father was in the military and my mother was a stay at home mom. It was very hard on my mother raising 6 kids and she would escape to her friends houses as much as she could. She was under a lot of stress and every once in a while took it out on us. They did disciple the way parents did back in those days. Beatings with the belt, spankings. I always tried to be good and stay in the background so I would not get in trouble. My little sister on the other hand was very outspoken and provoked anyone she could. It was crazy growing up in our house but I am sure we had a family just like many others.
I started gaining weight when I was 8. I remember because that is when we moved back to the states from Germany. In Germany we had no TV. I remember getting one once but all we could get were German speaking channels and we did not know much German. There wasn't much to do inside. We were outside playing all the time; therefore I did not gain any weight. I could eat, go to the little candy shop and never gain anything. I was a skinny little thing. When we moved to the states, we moved to Florida. It was so hot that we rarely wanted to play outside and TV oh my gosh. I had never watched TV before and this thing that I was looking at, watching Captain Kangaroo. WOW!
Now I still did get some exercise my mother kicked us outside as much as possible. I got a little chubby but not fat. My mother was worried about me and I wanted to loose weight. I did not want to be the fat kid in school. I saw how the girls that were fat were treated and I did not want to be treated that way. My mother put me on a diet. I was 10 years old when I started yo yo dieting. When I got to high school I was still chubby but not fat. By the time I got out of high school and started working I was fat. I had to do something about this. I was going out with friends. I went out with a few guys. I met my husband at 22 and we were having a great time. I didn't have a problem dating because even though I was over weight I was still cute. I still needed to do something about it though.
I went on Nutrisystem. This diet was awesome. I lost 70lbs. I am going to stop here for the day. I will post more tomorrow and bring you up to date.
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