Hello, I'm new. But that's sort of redundant anyways, why would I be posting here if I wasn't? 
I'm 26 years old, and I weigh about 240lbs. I want to be closer to 140, so I have a good hundred to lose. I'm going to be here for a while.
I spent my later years of childhood overweight. My teen years saw me about 180 and climbing. By the time I hit 23, I was over 200. And then I moved away from home, did college, starved to death (not by choice) and I hit somewhere around 160. And then I met my future husband, got pregnant and we had two kids right in a row - each one packing about 40-50lbs back on me. Devestation much? I love my little monsters (boys, the both of them, the oldest one is 2 and the younger one is 6 months), and wouldn't trade them for the world.
I kept saying, "I'm good as long as it stays under 200" and then it went over 200. "I'm good as long as it stays under 220" and then it went over 220.
and I kept making excuses, "I'm overweight because we go starving for a long time then suddenly we get money and can get groceries, and then we gorge, which reeks hell on my metabolsm." And that was true, for a long time, but then it wasn't, but I kept using it as an excuse.
Today, I turned around and I realized that I'd been eating a lot junk. I eat good stuff too (mainly chicken, rice and veges) but far FAR too much junkfood. I mean, I'd eat icecream 2-4 times a day, and not as dessert, but as replacements for meals. Icecream instead of breakfast, icecream instead of supper. That sort of thing. But then, I'm a very picky eater.
What got me into loosing weight was watching X-Weighted. I enjoy the show, it motivates me to a point, but then today (before the icecream realization) I was watching the show and there was a woman who was the same height as me and 30lbs lighter, and she kept going on about how disgusting it was, and how she really needed to lose it, and I had this CLICK go off in my head. It was like she was talking to me.
I decided I had to do something.
I'm 26 years old, and I weigh about 240lbs. I want to be closer to 140, so I have a good hundred to lose. I'm going to be here for a while.
I spent my later years of childhood overweight. My teen years saw me about 180 and climbing. By the time I hit 23, I was over 200. And then I moved away from home, did college, starved to death (not by choice) and I hit somewhere around 160. And then I met my future husband, got pregnant and we had two kids right in a row - each one packing about 40-50lbs back on me. Devestation much? I love my little monsters (boys, the both of them, the oldest one is 2 and the younger one is 6 months), and wouldn't trade them for the world.
I kept saying, "I'm good as long as it stays under 200" and then it went over 200. "I'm good as long as it stays under 220" and then it went over 220.
and I kept making excuses, "I'm overweight because we go starving for a long time then suddenly we get money and can get groceries, and then we gorge, which reeks hell on my metabolsm." And that was true, for a long time, but then it wasn't, but I kept using it as an excuse.
Today, I turned around and I realized that I'd been eating a lot junk. I eat good stuff too (mainly chicken, rice and veges) but far FAR too much junkfood. I mean, I'd eat icecream 2-4 times a day, and not as dessert, but as replacements for meals. Icecream instead of breakfast, icecream instead of supper. That sort of thing. But then, I'm a very picky eater.
What got me into loosing weight was watching X-Weighted. I enjoy the show, it motivates me to a point, but then today (before the icecream realization) I was watching the show and there was a woman who was the same height as me and 30lbs lighter, and she kept going on about how disgusting it was, and how she really needed to lose it, and I had this CLICK go off in my head. It was like she was talking to me.
I decided I had to do something.