Want to lose 20 lbs... and I need inspiration!!

Hello everyone!!

As a super busy single mom who JUST graduated from school, I NEVER put my health at the top of my importance list. Sure, I'd spend a few days trying to cut down, usually by inhaling packages of 100 calorie shortbreads and pounds of celery. After a few days however, I'd call it quits and eat an entire box of hermits in one sitting.

I knew I needed some structure or I would just fizzle out like every other time I tried to "diet", usually after that one moment when I'd say "ONE bbq bacon cheeseburger won't kill me!" I'd begin the familiar descent into fast-food drudgery, low energy, and feeling out of control. So I'm trying Herbalife with the help of a coach, and it's kept me on track for five whole days! For me, five days is a damn long time too. A DAY feels like a long time... an hour without a french fry? Totally hard!

So yep, I'm an overeater, for certain. I'm also no specimen of athleticism. I've never had a good exercise routine. I've dragged myself to the gym in the past, and aside from reading a book on the treadmill, I really hated most of it. I'd show up, keep my head down as I passed the people who knew what they were doing on those weight machines that reminded me of Spanish Inquisition torture devices. And I'd park my but on a treadmill or bike for 30 solid minutes, then leave as sheepishly as I'd arrived. This is no way to live!

So hello MFP, I hope there are others there like me, who have struggled eternally to feel in control of their eating, and who find losing weight so very, very difficult. I need inspiration and motivation constantly to keep me on track, because left to my own devices I may eek my way down that cookie aisle towards Paul Newman's smiling face.... and goodbye hermits! (seriously, hermits should be illegal)

I've always been 15-20 lbs overweight. My whole dang life. But with Herbalife, my coach, MFP, and my determination (and a yet-to-be-determined exercise routine that even a busy-as-hell single mom with limited child care options can get into... ideas anyone???) I expect success this time, because I feel ready to work for it.

I hope some of you friend me!