A New Journey

Tomorrow I start one of the biggest and best journeys in my life. Tomorrow I begin to find my life as a healthy person. For those who might follow this blog let me give you some background history. I have always struggled with my weight since I was I would say about 3 years old. I have always been heavy. For most of my life I just dealt with it and didnt ever do anything to fix it until I was 17 years old. At that point I started weight watchers. It was a great program and I dropped about 25 lbs in 6 weeks. I never felt hungry or anything, but because I was a minor I had to have a parent go with me to the meetings. Well we went on family vacation and missed 2 meetings and never went back. So back on when the 25 lbs. and probably some more. Than I graduated high school and moved in with my granny. I have the most amazing granny in the world who is also the most amazing cook in the world. So while there and eating homecooked farm meals plus being a freshman in college and eating quick things (like fast food and college cafeteria) also packed on the lbs even more. I than had to quit school and kept living with my granny but I also started working in the next closest town which was about 30 minutes away so a lot of times I would grab something for breakfast and lunch in town at a fast food joint and than eat a homecooked meal at home. Or sometimes grab all three meals depending on what I had to do at night before I would get to come home. So more weight packed on. I decided to eventually move back to Florida. I lived with a family at first and ate as sporadic and crazy as they did. I rarely had time to prepare any meals at home and a lot of times it meant that I was grabbing fast food during the day and eating late meals at night. About a year after moving back to Florida I starting dating a guy who also struggled with his weight. Together we started eating healthier we counted calories ate low fat food, ground turkey, and such; in about 3 months I had lost 30lbs. We got thrown off because of some holidays and birthdays in a short amount of time so while we still tried to eat healthy some of it went back out the window. So I stopped losing weight but didnt gain it back again yet. Then about 8 months after dating we broke up and I gained back the weight I had lost and then some more again. At this point I just had given up I had decided I was just destined to be overweight my whole life. I meet and married my husband in 2009-2010. I was at my heaviest I had ever been and was so amazed that this man could love me this way. He really has been the encouragement to lose this weight that had plagued me my whole life. I want to be around in 30-40-50 years with him and I want to be able to have uncomplicated pregnancies and not have high risk pregnancies because of my weight. My most amazing roommate started a new lifestyle change with herbal life about 2 weeks ago and she has lost about 24 lbs and 16 in. (overall not just from her waist). She has really encouraged me as well. So I will start this tomorrow with her and keep going to a healthy weight. So I will be posting pics and updates as I start this journey. I will also be posting healthy recipes.