My Intro - Busy working mom doing everything everyone and now I'm doing this for me!
JBL2517
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Hi I am J.B. and I live in NC. I have been married for almost 10 years, have two amazing kids, my little boy is 6 1/2 and my daughter is 5. Daily life is very busy to say the least and I realized when I turned 36 this year that I have been taking care of everyone else for so long that I've forgot to take care of myself. There is no time like the present and it's time to make myself a priority.
The long story short is.....My weight has been a struggle pretty much my entire life and over the last two years I have really let myself go. I' wouldn't say that my eating habits are extremely unhealthy but I do it admit I'm a stress eater. Three weeks ago I went to the doctor for a routine checkup and stepped on the scale and was HORRIFIED to say the least. I looked down and saw a number that was close to what I weighed when I was pregnant with my daughter. I can't believe I'm going to admit this but I'm hoping sharing this will help me....the scale read 247 lbs. I have been using the My Fitness Pal app for about two weeks and I'm happy to report that I've lost 7.4 lbs but that's a long ways from what I want to be.
I need your HELP ladies! Discussing my weight struggles with my close friends and family has never been easy for me. Honestly, I feel like the ones that are closest to me become "too involved" and if I have a set back it gets shared or talked about with more people than I would like (that's kind of putting it mildly). Please don't get me wrong I do have a very supportive family and my friends are amazing but losing weight is not a subject I want to discuss with them. Everyone has an opinion, a suggestion or just read a great article that they think will really help me.
I really need the support of other moms out there in the real world, working hard every day to pay the bills, who understand the struggles of being everything to everyone and know that trying to lose weight isn't easy. If I'm struggling I want to be able to say this SUCKS and I know that someone else out there knows exactly what I mean.
I'm sure a lot of you can feel my pain and I'm hoping to find a group of ladies to take this weight loss journey with.
**PS: I apologize if I rambled
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The long story short is.....My weight has been a struggle pretty much my entire life and over the last two years I have really let myself go. I' wouldn't say that my eating habits are extremely unhealthy but I do it admit I'm a stress eater. Three weeks ago I went to the doctor for a routine checkup and stepped on the scale and was HORRIFIED to say the least. I looked down and saw a number that was close to what I weighed when I was pregnant with my daughter. I can't believe I'm going to admit this but I'm hoping sharing this will help me....the scale read 247 lbs. I have been using the My Fitness Pal app for about two weeks and I'm happy to report that I've lost 7.4 lbs but that's a long ways from what I want to be.
I need your HELP ladies! Discussing my weight struggles with my close friends and family has never been easy for me. Honestly, I feel like the ones that are closest to me become "too involved" and if I have a set back it gets shared or talked about with more people than I would like (that's kind of putting it mildly). Please don't get me wrong I do have a very supportive family and my friends are amazing but losing weight is not a subject I want to discuss with them. Everyone has an opinion, a suggestion or just read a great article that they think will really help me.
I really need the support of other moms out there in the real world, working hard every day to pay the bills, who understand the struggles of being everything to everyone and know that trying to lose weight isn't easy. If I'm struggling I want to be able to say this SUCKS and I know that someone else out there knows exactly what I mean.
I'm sure a lot of you can feel my pain and I'm hoping to find a group of ladies to take this weight loss journey with.
**PS: I apologize if I rambled
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Thanks for starting this group. I think moms struggle in general with self-care.0
