Diamond_Sole says: "Hello!"

Um...so...where to begin? I'm a stay-at-home mother of two lovely girls, one who is 11, anosmic and quite thin, and another who is almost 2 and barrel-chested like me.

I've always been a bit big, and I've always felt bad about my appearance. I got down to about 160 when I was 22, and that's the least I've weighed since. My highest weight that I measured was 248. Over the summer I've been out walking more and eating a little less (because of the warm weather), so that's down to about 240.

I've read a lot about weight loss over the past few years. What I read made me decide that it was better to eat what I wanted, exercise when I could and work on ability and health and try to love my body without thinking about weight. The problem is, without some kind of goal, I wasn't really doing anything. Well, I'd managed to add fruits and veggies to my diet, but exercise was still not something I did very often. I do love my body, and I think I could take better care of it.

A friend of mine lost 50lbs in a year using the tools here, and he looks fantastic. I decided I'd try it, too. I think tracking what I eat will help me to analyze my eating habits and change them slowly, plus it gives me a reason to exercise.