my story

i decided to make this blog so i can keep up with my weight loss efforts. i'm sure i'll never have a readership, but this is just for me anyway.

okay. my history.

the most i've ever weighed is 260 lbs. at 5'2", that's a lot of weight to carry around. and it doesn't look good either.

in high school, i weighed 250 lbs. i lost weight on an atkins'-like diet. i didn't adhere strictly to atkins' principles, all i knew was meat, cheese and salads. and it worked for me. i walked every morning during the summer before 12th grade along with the dieting and dropped to 180 lbs. i was still over weight but i looked and felt better about myself than ever before. boys started to notice me and i dated for the first time ever. it was a great year.

i maintained that weight (within about 10 lbs.) for 2 years. during that time, i got married and we decided to try for a baby. so, i got pregnant and ALL the weight came back on. by the time my son was born, i weighed 243.

i tried over the next few years to get it off. i tried weight watchers, atkins', south beach and lots of other fad diets.

at the beginning of 2007, i was my heaviest, at 260. i was trying to lose weight before we started to try to have another child. i started a low-carb diet and was going to the gym. i lost 20 pounds in about 3 months with that. but, circumstances changed in my life and quit going to the gym.

later that year, i heard about the 6 week body makeover (6WBMO). it was working for a friend of mine, so my husband and i ordered it. when we got it, we did everything we were supposed to and i lost another 20 pounds in 6 weeks on that. at 220 lbs, i found out i was pregnant. i had a great pregnancy with no complications. once my daughter was born, i was even more determined to get the weight off.

now, almost a year since my daughter was born, i've lost 29 lbs. to put me at 201.

just this past monday, my hubby and i started the 6WBMO again. on monday morning when i weighed, i was 209; thursday morning, i'm 201.

i'm pretty excited about all of the weight loss so quick. i know that it's just water weight because the biggest thing about the 6WBMO, is that you cut out salt, fat and sugar. i'm having some problems staying on plan (OP) and hope that i can make it for the whole 6 weeks, like i promised hubby!

that's it for now. i'll be back when i need to talk to someone though. that's what this is for, to help me through at least the next 5 1/2 weeks!