Just signed on!

Hello! I just signed on a few minutes ago and logged in what I have been doing. My name is T and I need to lose weight in a very bad way. I am about 80 pounds overweight. Most of the pounds have crept on in the last 10 years, 5 pounds here, 8 pounds there. Normally, I shy away from 'organized' weightloss programs such as weight watchers and Jenny craig, ect. And signing onto a weightloss board is the last thing I ever thought I would do, but here it goes.
What lead me to this 'I got to do it for real this time' moment? Well, lots of things. Pictures on facebook, my son wondering what it would be like to have a 'skinny' mom, my health, ect. A friend of mine is trying to quit smoking, but she always has excuses as to why she cant. I was giving her a hard time last week and she said that I didnt know how hard it was to quit, then she went on to list every excuse in the book why she couldnt. I told her they were all excuses and if I could quit 16 years ago, so could she. But then it got me thinking: I need to lose weight, but I make every excuse I can think of as to why I dont get up in the morning (its cold, its dark, i'm tired) and why that one more piece of whatever wont hurt me. I vowed to myself that all the excuses are gone. I want to lose 80 pounds, and that's final.