I never had to worry about what I ate until I had a baby.  I was small and cute until I turned 27 and had my son.  Ever since then I have been on a roller coaster of diets and diet pills.  The ONLY that thing that has EVER worked is working out like 4-6 days a week and somewhat watching what I ate.  In 2003 I did this and reached my goal of 149 in about 3 months.  I had about 20 pounds to loose.  But when I stopped working out and watching what I ate the pounds crept back on.  I have now realized this is going to be a life long change that I have to make in order to be the weight I want.

I am 5'9" and currently need to loose about 14-19 pounds.  I haven't decided what I want my goal to be.  I have lost 5 pounds in about 2.5 weeks and I would really love to be 140 again.  My current goal is 145.  i have not been able to get down to that since before I was pregnant.

I have encouraged some friends at work to join this program and we are going to do it together.  I would love some company.  I get really addicted to dieting, especially when I start seeing results and I get a little crazy.  I need someone to reel me in sometimes and let me know it's ok to loose only a pound a week.  Slow and steady wins the race right?

UPDATE : 11/11/08

I am now at 140 pounds.  It actually fluctuates between 136 and 141 but I am not wanting to put the low weight on here because I want my high weight to be 135.  I have recently had people tell me it's time to stop loosing weight, but they never saw me before I was bigger - not necessarily "fat" but bigger.  They just see that I have lost 30 pounds and think I am "too skinny"  i can attest to the fact that I still have celulite and jiggily thighs - I am really more in the mode of toning anyway.  Once I am toned right - I will look like I weigh about 120 - but I won't, I will be a healthy weight.

UPDATE: 06/17/09

I recommited to CC on May 25th.  I could not go to the pool after gaining back 12 pounds.  I was 152 on May 25th, my stats went up as well.  I have been counting since that day, not on the weekends, and I have lost almost 6 pounds.  I feel confident I will reach and exceed my goal of 145 by my vacation date of 6/26/09!  I have some new friends here and I think they will definitely help me through the tough times.  I haven't returned to yoga yet.  I have to renew my membership at the Community Center and I just haven't had time to workout this year.  My kid is sick and most of my time is trying to either figure out what's wrong or clean the house so he isn't too bad off.  No doctor has been able to tell us what's wrong.  It's very infuriating.  So, I am on track, I will measure agin on 6/26/09 and see what my stats are, I know they will have gone down.