I have two small children, a 5-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter, who I think the sun rises and sets with. I work from home as a web developer so I have next to no free time. I am a bit of a clean freak and am always cleaning. I work until 1 or 2 a.m. and get up at 6:30 a.m with my kids, which means little sleep. I have an awfully short temper most of the time.

I am trying to lose the weight that I put on when I was pregnant with my son. I gained 55 pounds!!  (Luckily, I only gained 18 with my daughter) I have two very skinny sisters and a very fit sister-in-law, so I desperately want to keep up with them.

I have a horrible time motivating myself to work out. I know that if I could just exercise regularly the weight would come off. I'm looking for help making and keeping goals to get me back to the weight I want to be. I also want to be someone else's support.

Besides losing weight, I want to generally make more time for myself and take better care of myself. I want to take one day off of work a week and use that day to finish my daughter's cross-stitch birth announcement, knit my husband the sweater I've been promising for five years, crochet a new afghan, or *gasp* finish a book.