SO happy to be here!

Good morning/almost-afternoon! I was just clearing out my "Favorites" on IE and I came acorss this one that I saved as, "Important, Read ASAP." Well, that ASAP took 4 months but I just completed my registration and started my food diary. I had NO idea this site offered so many helpful tools! I have no doubt that this is going to be an amzing success with the help of the tools on this site and the support of this community.

I want to give a little background info... At 18, I left home for college weighing only 100 pounds. Even at a height of only 5'3", that was a bit too small. I was at the gym every morning at 6 a.m. before school and ate just enough to get by. Well, you've all heard of the "freshman 15" but what about the "freshman 50"?? There was no easy gym to get to that I felt comfortable with and no one telling me what I could and could not eat so after my first year of college, I weighed 150. I slowly gained a little more until graduation, where I was 170 pounds. To make a long story short.... 2 pregnancies and 6 years later and I was then at 280 pounds. Yep, almost THREE times my starting college weight.

I decided a couple of years later that enough was enough! I joined a gym and started working my butt off, literally. I lost 90 pounds and was starting to feel GREAT about myself. It had taken me over a year of 5-6 workouts a week, 2-3 a week with a trainer, to lose the weight. My eating habits were still not great, which is why I lost it so slowly. When I reached 190, due to other complications, I went through a divorce and over the last few years, I have gained back FIFTY pounds. I am really embarrassed by it. I have very few clothes that fit and a closet full of cute stuff that has been hanging there for 3 years. I'm getting remarried in 4 months and, while I know I can't lose as much as I'd like, I want to at least be 25 pounds lighter and eventually get down to a healthy 140. Even though I have gotten lazy, food is my major problem. I know I'll have no problem getting back into exercise. Exercise gives me such a mental boost that I am really looking forward to it. I am so thrilled to have the food tracker, as THAT is going to be the tool to my success!

I'm looking forward to getting to know others here and support you all through this life changing journey we are taking TOGETHER! Thank you for reading my story and I can't wait to read the others here and get started on this!

Jenny (My user name, "JennyWennyPooPoo" is a nickname my grandad gave me when I was 6 and my famiily still calls me that, even though I am 36.)