New Year, New Me

Hi I have been with MyFitnessPal for awhile, but I have been staying mostly to myself. I have learned though that it is good to hang with people of like mind.

I turned 50 this past January and I am graduating college soon. My last class is in July and I am walking the stage in August. That is only the icing on the cake of the goals that I set for myself four years ago. The batter started four years ago when I decided I was going to go to college. Family and friends thought I had lost my mind. Two years later when I turned 48 I realized I had been smoking for 40 years. Yes I started way to young. It has been two years and cig free. I put on some weight when I stopped smoking, but with the stress of full time school and taking care of family I did not worry about it. Food was my friend, especially those late nights of cranking out a 2,000 to 4,000 word essays.

I went with my mom to her doctor a few months back and could not believe what the scale was telling me. I wanted to cry, I was over 200 pounds. High blood pressure, heart problems, diabetes, and cancer run in my family on both sides. I swore I was not going to graduate weighing that much. I will not be to my goal weight, but I will be under 200 pounds come August 9th.

It has been a battle and I have almost given up when I was not seeing any results. I am now at 205 pounds from my 210. I am very proud of myself. Just as I knew I would finish college and reach that dream, I know I will reach my dream of losing 65 pounds.