Hello! I'm Rachel, and I'm trying to get healthy. When I started this back in October 2009 I weighed 150 pounds. For someone only 5'3", that is not healthy. My original goal was to be 140 by December 10th. I made that goal, which put me just barely in a healthy weight for my height and gave me a healthy waist circumference of under 35 inches.

Knowing that I can lose weight makes me want to continue, especially since I am still unhappy with my waist, upper arms, and thighs. I would like a waist of under 30 inches, and I think I am going to have to weigh 120 lbs to have that. I'm hoping to reach that goal by July. 

My husband is doing this with me, also, which REALLY helps. He weighed 221 when we started, and he's down to 199! We're really enjoying the progress we're making.