Introduction: watching the head doctor loose weight

Greetings to all. This is just a short message to introduce myself. I am "in my 60's", look 40, own a group practice, just relocated from Wisconsin to North Carolina 2 and 1/2 years ago (love it here----I think i live in paradise!!!!!), I am an excercise and health food fanatic and. I have been a size 6-10 all my life. Life stressors (positive and neagative stressors) created an increase in cortisol along with the "menapause factor"--I studied for and passed my Boards, built a new home (18 hours away from Wisconsin), started the group practice in NC, alll while maintaining my private practice in Wisconsin. I travel back and forth, for almost 6 months until I could eventually close the doors to the private practice in Wisconsin and move permanently to NC (with my husband, poor guy who had retired and was sitting here in this big house all alone). I say all this, not to make excuses as to why I put on 40 pounds, but to explain the process. Now that things have "calmed down" a bit--the group practice is up and running, and I am for the first time in my life going to work a 9:30 to 5:30 work day--I should mention my work week is only three days a week, Mon, Tues and Wed (smile--I told you I live in paradise with paradise conditions). At any rate, I must loose the 40 pounds.. This message board becomes my latest mechanism for having some more people to whom I must be accountable. Right now I have to face my dietician/nutritionalist once a week. Now, I have to face you. I will use my own "treatments of the trade" on myself and I am willing to share with others. Let's see how I do. I began at 173 pounds, I am scheduled to loose 1/2 pound a week. According to my nutritionalist's calculations, I shoulod have all pounds shed by DECEMBER OF 2011. Ugh!!! Yesterday I weighed in at 168.8. Slow but steady--is that the saying? Ready, set, here I go--I will keep you informed and also help with your motivation. DrYvonneSmith