New Here: 'Healthy for My Girls'

Well, I have done this many times before and I can’t seem to stay committed to losing the weight. Losing weight is very difficult for me because I am a ‘kick' guy. Meaning, I get on a ‘kick’ for a week then I lose interest and make up excuses to why I shouldn’t eat right or workout. My goal is to try a new ‘kick’ and this site is my new ‘kick’. I read that if you get involved in a forum community or have others in similar situations that you are more likely to push yourself to succeed and lose the weight. I am hoping that I get some sort of accountability out of telling my story and getting involved with others stories with myfitnesspal.com.

I started gaining weight after I got married. It got a lot worse when my wife was pregnant with my first daughter and I seemed to gain an excessive amount of weight. When she ate I ate. By the way, she was pregnant during the summer and loves ice cream. I’m pretty sure 10lbs of my weight gain were due to ice cream stops every night. My wife is one of those people that are always skinny no matter what they eat. She quickly lost her baby weight and I stood there with an extra 20lbs of baby weight. I was on kick after kick but nothing worked. I would drop 10lbs be happy and think it’s okay to eat wings and beer for lunch with friends.

My wife and I just had our second little girl. I now have a house full of girls and my wife is already at pre-pregnancy weight after 6 months and yet I gained another 10lbs from this pregnancy. I currently am at 230lbs, my goal weight would be 195, and 190 would be phenomenal.

I hope this is not just another ‘kick’ and that I stick to it. I have never written anything down before and have never opened up about my weight gain. It might be very nominal to some people but to me this is a huge challenge. I come from a big family and a family with all sorts of health concerns (heart attacks | I believe my dad, mom and 2 brothers all have diabetes and I am the only one without it | high cholesterol & the list goes on…). I don’t want to worry my girls about these types of things and I want to be there for them as long as I possibly can.

So here we go on a random Tuesday in August. Let’s see how far this ‘kick’ goes. Hopefully it ‘kicks’ the 40 extra pounds right off my body. My name is Kevin and I'm trying to be 'Healthy for My Girls'.