My Story

Well I am a proud mother and stay at home wife to a Navy Sailor. I used to be the sole money maker of the house working 2 jobs just to make ends meet before my husband joined the navy. I went to boot camp myself back in 2006 but was medically discharged because there was something wrong with my hips after having my second baby. So after going back home and resting for a month i went to work as a welder making craftsman toolboxes. It was awesome but i didn't make enough to pay bills and have money left to do things with my family. I then moved jobs and worked for Tyson's ( yup the chicken ppl) and was on my way to the supervisor training program within a year. I then got a second job as an in home nurse. I was never seeing my family because i was at work all day 10 hours a day at the factory, then friday-sunday i was taking care of an elderly woman in the evenings until midnight and i had to drive 45 minutes to get to her house. I needed a change and since i couldn't join the military i asked my husband (who is 4 years younger ) to join. So he did. we ended up here in washington where it is cloudy 65 % of the year. i got pregnant and lost the baby within 2 months, gained 20lbs from the depression that followed. 3 months later i was pregnant again, and again by the 8th week had a miscarriage. by this time i was balooned from 135 up to 161. we gave up trying for another baby and got off birth control to let nature decide one last time if we were to have another child. Within 1 month i was pregnant again. And this time we had a viable pregnancy. My husband went on his first deployment while i was pregnant and didn't come home till after our baby was 1 month old. I had a complicated birth and the baby had to be delivered via c-section. i had never had one before and was scared to death. after 4 days in the hospital and the baby finally given the all clear we went home. Recovery was made easier because my mother in law came to stay with me for 5 weeks. I went back down to 155 within 4 weeks of my baby being born because my body was using every resource to heal my surgury. then my metabolism slowed way down and i was still hungry. i suffered post partum depression and gained all my baby weight back and then some so now i was 196lbs. the weight i was at 9 months pregnant with my last baby. i had even more depression because of my self image. Well now i am absolutely fed up with myself for letting it get this bad. I joined my best friend from highschool in her 90 day weight loss challange and lost 9 pounds in the first week. i am struggling to stay on track with my eating but am enjoing the exercise even though i gotta take it slower than i want because of knee and foot pain.....So WISH ME LUCK!!