Hello=)

Been here a couple of days and doing really well so far adjusting to this lifestyle change. I am 24 years old, I am a mother to one 6 year old boy, who has a ton of energy! My weight loss journey started around two weeks ago, first my son called me fat, and no I don't blame him, he doesn't understand at 6 and is just very honest. I explained to him that it is hurtful to call people names, but yes I am overweight. I started cutting out soda, to get rid of extra sugar and excess calories that are not needed. So I was doing good on that but not changing anything else, or looking at the food I was eating. The next week we went to King's Island and I was going to ride the new roller coaster banshee which is now the longest inverted roller coaster in the world. I love roller coasters! we waited an hour got up there and they couldn't get me in no matter how hard they tried. I was devastated and also super embarrassed doing the walk of shame in front of so many people. I cried all the way home, and decided I was DONE living like this and it is time to make a change! I started doing a lot of research online how exactly to go about it and found this place. Never in my life would I have thought a website would motivate me so much, but it has and I am grateful to have found it. So I would love to find new friends in my journey, where we can lose weight together, or we can just leave positive notes for each other. Also we all need constructive criticism so that would be a nice thing to receive from people who have already had success. Thanks so much for taking the time to read this.