Hi Folks

Hi folks! My name is Alice and I really want to lose weight. (Duh)

I am really motivated and will do everything I can to stay motivated. That has always been my main problem. I'll be motivated for a few weeks and then I'll just keep making excuses to myself like, "oh work was hard today, it's ok to indulge this time" or "I worked out really hard yesterday, I'll just skip it, or do it tomorrow."  

I was pudgy in high school and lost it all my senior year, without really doing much, kept it off for two years and then slowly started to put it back on. Now I'm back up almost to my highest weight of 200 lbs. My only consolation is that this time I don't have all the baby fat I did in high school, so at least I carry the weight a little better! 

I have always been mainly interested in losing weight, not necessarily getting healthier. I figured that thin equals healthy. But I started working in the cardiovascular recovery department at the hospital here and realized that all sizes, ages and shapes of people get heart disease. Just because you are a 110 pound thin little lady it doesn't mean that you aren't at risk!  I know now that I really do need to eat well and excersize to really get it all together.

I think it might be easier for me to lose the weight and get healthy this time because, as a perk of being a hospital employee, I have a membership at the employee fitness center. Excersize equipment and access to personal trainers was never anything I had available previously.  So, if all goes well, I'll reach my goal of 137 pounds by August 2010.  (137 sounds like a random number but at my thinnest, 135 pounds, I looked a little bony and people worried about me. The extra 2 pounds makes all the difference!)

Thanks everyone!!