Like so many of you, I'm starting over.....again

Hi. I've been overweight for most of my life. I'm 57. Back in 2007 I decided to try once again to lose the excess weight that I had been carrying around for way too long. I was determined! I don't remember exactly when but my mother-in-law had told me at one point that I may as well accept myself the way I was because I was never going to lose weight. I think that comment along with a few comments at the family Thanksgiving dinner that year I knew that I just had to do something.

So, I gave up drinking soda and fruit juices and fruit drinks, most breads, and most sweets. I don't know If it's okay to use name brands here but I ate frozen diet dinners for lunch and supper just about every day. My two sons were grown and on their own and my husband was a decent cook so I told him that he would have to cook for himself if he didn't want to join me. He was overweight but nowhere near as much as I was.

Every now and then we would go out to dinner and I would make sure that I brought at least half of my dinner home. To be honest I didn't stick with it 100% of the time but I was very careful when I "cheated". I also bought a 1 quart water bottle and made sure that I drank at least 2, but usually 3 and sometimes even 4, quarts of water a day. I started walking 1-3 miles every morning and doing an exercise routine before going to bed that I had put together from different sources as well.

By 2009 I had lost approximately 80 pounds. I was so excited!! I had gone from a size 18/20 tight jeans to a size 10 (and even found a pair of size 8 that I wore once)! Well, from January of that year and into the following couple of years we had several upsetting events take place. My marriage ended. We had several deaths in the family, my husband being one of them. Then life just happened and my diet hit the skids. Over the next few years I regained about 50 of those pounds.

I have since remarried and my new husband is an awesome cook!! But I told him that I really need to get back on track and I need his help to do it! I am back to eating my Healthy meals for lunch at work but we haven't started eating them for supper yet and that's where my problem is, I think. I start with a snack as soon as I get in the door from work and then a lot of the time we aren't prepared for what to have for supper and we just throw something together, not always the best choices, or we go out to do errands and grab something while we're out....again not the best choices.

My sister told me about MFP so I decided to check it out. This site looks awesome! I really want to get these 50 pounds off again and keep them off this time!! I know with all of your help I CAN do this!!! Thanks for reading, Kanndee