Hello

Hello, my name is Sharon. I am sorry I'm late, I am just starting my 3rd day here and still learning my way around the site. I am looking to lose around 25lbs. I have never really dieted myself, but have helped other people when I worked as an independent consultant for Herbalife 5-10 years ago. I stopped working for them when my body started rejecting their products after I'd had the flu.

My husband and I moved to Oregon about 3 years ago with his job and I thought that would be the start of a new life for me, that I would be more active, but really, I'm not. While in New Mexico where we moved from, I had worked at a sedentary job, working on the computer toward a career in writing when I wasn't working with Herbalife, and that was the start of it.

Coming here, I've had a pretty rough time making friends. Sure I am nice to people when I meet them, and we have a good time, but its nothing like the connections I had with my friends in New Mexico. In New Mexico, at the drop of a hat, I could get in the car during the day and drive over to my friend's house to hang out while my husband was a sleep before he had to work at night. Here, I have no one like that, so again, I am in the sedentary life and when I'm not working on my writing - which has been hard because the main computer I was using has become communal since my in laws now live with us - and the inspiration isn't there, I am playing video games of some sort.

My husband and I joined the Oregon III% group in our area, and have met people through that, and I found Thrive Life through them, but the woman who introduced me to them now lives further away so I don't have much of a friend connection there either. Right now my mother in law is my walking buddy.

In June, my husband and I are going to a Combat Camp, and I have mixed feelings about it. I am both looking forward to it, and dreading it. I have Fibromyalgia and fear that they will do stuff I just can't do, but I also am excited to try. I know right now, I probably won't survive it, so I want to lose the 25lbs in hopes of doing so, having more energy and hopefully, being able to get through the combat camp with a good chance of minimal soreness and Fibro flare ups.