My Skinnification

A lil over a yr ago, as I sat in my recliner, stuffing my face with chips and dip, my hubby of 20 plus yrs, came to me saying he had to do something about his weight or he was not going to live much longer. I think I muttered something about moving out of my way, my soap was on. 
But, I knew he was right. I had just ignored it. It was easier to look the other way and not see the extra weight and it's toll it was taking. 
So, with much eye rolling, I agreed to see how much I weighed. We took out the scale. I weighed in at 273 pounds( remember, I was eating chips, so thats got to explain some of it, right?) The heaviest I'd ever been.  I'm a little over 5'7".  Hubby was 467 pounds, his biggest,  at 6'3".   Why had I let this happen? I hadn't always been overweight. The only answer I had, we just got so caught up in life,  let laziness take over, and it just got easier to eat out and buy bigger clothes. 
That day set in motion, a new way of life for our family. We made shopping lists and started logging everything we ate, with the help of a calorie counting app(myfitnesspal). We stopped ordering pizza, eating fast foods, eating fried foods, and red meat. We cut out sodas and high calorie, high fat foods. 
That day, started our "skinnification".  We committed ourselves to losing weight and getting healthy. We set realistic goals. I started cooking low calorie, low fat, healthy meals. We bought bicycles and started moving around more. We made it a family affair, and my overweight, nearly 300 pound, son, also got involved. 
Now, all those things didn't happen at once, we gradually changed our eating style to take out negative choices and incorporate positive ones. 
It wasn't a hard thing to do, we just had to start eating right; and before long, the weight started to come off and I noticed how much better I felt, and how much energy I had. 
The constant support and encouragement from each other is EVERYTHING! 
As of this writing, my hubby has lost 175 pounds, my son has lost 120 and is in "maintenance mode", and I've lost 75 pounds.