About me

I'm a 31 year old, overweight stay at home mom to 5 kids. I've ALWAYS been overweight, for as long as I can remember. When I was a little girl, I always had a little pudgy belly. I just assumed when I grew up I would be beautiful and thin. I had never seen I fat woman in a wedding dress. The sad thing is, I don't think I was much older than 6 or 7 when I had those thoughts. I got older, and never got thinner. By the time I was in High School I was 185lbs and a size 14. Not HUGE by any means, but big enough to not "fit in" very well. I went about my life, graduated, had great friends, my life was really good for the most part. I met my husband when I was 19, we were engaged 2 months later, pregnant a month after that and married a month after that. (No, the pregnancy was not planned, but not very prevented, either). I gained about 55-60lbs during that pregnancy. I did manage to somehow lose MOST of it, I held on to about 20lbs. 2 1/2 years later, baby number 2 arrives. Gained another 50+ with him, again, lost most of it, then gained. When he was 6 months old I joined weight watchers for the first time and weighed in at 242lbs. I lost about 35lbs in I don't know how long, then I got pregnant, again. Baby 2 and baby 3 are 22 months apart. I had a lot of stress with that pregnancy and "only" gained 40lbs, lost all of that immediately after he was born. By this time we moved (husband is in the Navy) and I was holding pretty steady around 210lbs. When baby number 3 turned 2, i was pregnant YET AGAIN. Gained 50lbs during that pregnancy and it did NOT want to come off. I did manage to get down to about 225 before getting pregnant ONE LAST TIME! Gained another 50lbs with my final pregnancy and for the last 2 1/2 years I've been letting my weight yo-yo up and down between 220-270. When baby 5 was about 4 months old I joined WW, weighed in at 272lbs. I was HORRIFIED. That's what I weighed the day I delivered her. Did WW for about 5 months and lost 28lbs. Over the course of the remainder of the year I gained MOST of that back. In January of 2008, my husband left on a 6 month deployment and I started WW AGAIN. This time on my own rather than going to the meetings. I started out in January at 258. I faithfully did WW for about 6 weeks before getting bored, and I decided to just watch what I was eating and how much of it I was eating. I lost 31lbs in the 6 months my husband was gone. the next 8 months while he was home, I gained it ALL back, plus 2 pounds. I could really kick myself for that, but it is what it is, and here I am now. He's been gone 2 1/2 months, and agian, just by watching what and how much I eat, I've lost 15lbs without even trying too hard. so now I'm trying hard.

Here is your "cheat sheet"

DS1 Erik (11)
DS2 Bradley (9)
DS3 Jackson (7)
DS4 Ethan (4)
DD1 Leah (2 1/2)

My official starting weight, was 260.4 and I officially started logging my weight on March 13, 2009.

As of May 18, 2009 I'm exercising regularly and tracking my calorie/fat/protein/carb intake. The Daily Plate is a great website to use, they have TONS AND TONS of foods listed.