The Beginning

I've decided to invite all of you to follow me on my weight loss journey for one simple reason:  I know myself.  I need you to keep me accountable or I will never lose the weight!  Being a stay at home mom, it's all too easy to make excuses for myself and I need to know someone is watching me. 

Now, before anyone gets all up in arms, I'm not looking to be unrealistic with my weight loss.  I simply want to get back to where I feel good about myself.  I'm planning on incorporating healthy eating and portion control as the main components of my weight loss.  Of course exercise will be included as well. To leave myself a shred of dignity in all of this, I will not be disclosing my starting weight.  The only numbers that I will record will be pounds lost.
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I know many of you are in the same boat I am, you had a baby and your body freaked out!  Since I started having babies I have gained 50 pounds, well 50 that have stuck anyway.  Since I am not planning on having anymore children, now is the perfect time to get serious about losing the weight.
**As a disclaimer:  If you are the type that has a baby and then goes right back to the size you were before getting pregnant, you make me angry!  How can you have another human living inside you and not get stretch marks, loose skin or gain a pant size!!!!!!!!!!

I invite any and all who are in the same position I am, to join me!  It would be so fun to hear about other people successes and struggles and to know I'm not alone.  If your not looking to loose any weight, please follow me anyway,I would love the support.

Now if anyone has any awesome healthy recipes I would love to hear them!  I am really open to just about anything although I will say if it has any ingredients that can only be found at a health food store, I probably won't make it, not because I'm unwilling to try, but because the reality is with two kids I am not looking to add another destination on my grocery shopping day.

I am posting a "before" picture of myself and even though it is embarrassing as all get out, I have to be realistic; that's how I look, moving on...

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Here we go.....