New year, New me

There comes a time in every woman's life where she hears those dreaded 3 words.  "Mom, your fat" And you can always trust a 9 year old child to be as honest as possible.  You can also trust that 9 year old to recruit her 7 year old sister and 4 year old brother into saying the same thing.  So, with that said, I can't say they are wrong.  I am fat.  I've gained a lot of weight as a stay at home mom.  Now, don't get me wrong.  I really LOVE being able to stay home with my kids.  Yes, they drive me batty, and holy hell do I want to run far, far away some days.  BUT, I am so very grateful that my husband provides this life for us enabling me this opportunity.  I am always available for class parties, if I get a phone call from school that my kids are sick or hurt, I don't have to leave work or call in sick or any of that stuff.  I'm accessible to my children 24/7.  BUT, the lack of work in addition to 3 pregnancies and 3 c-sections has taken its toll on my body.  Before I got married I was a full time employee, I moved around and walked a lot, I lifted heavy items and was un-intentionally using portion control with my eating habits.  I mean there's only so much you can eat on a 15 minute break.  So back to my original story. 
 My kids called me fat.  I am gonna change that.  I've gotten in with a "crowd" ( I say it like that to make you think its BAAAD, lol)  but no, its not bad.  A wonderful group of ladies that live in my neighborhood have started a Weight Watchers group.  We attend our monthly meetings together, get our weigh ins together, some of us go grocery shopping together and we share recipes and pictures of our prepared food to support each other.  Its nice to have recipes and ideas for low calorie, well portioned foods from a different perspective, the same thing gets boring.  I even went as far as to take the next step.  I also joined the YMCA.  Not only do I have gym access pretty much anytime I want, they also offer free childcare.  So its like a win-win situation for me.  When my kids get me to the point I feel like I'm going to crack, I can take em to the childcare, and run away my frustration in the gym.  The perfect plan, right?  Lets hope so.  So This starts my blog for my new journey, I'm going to lose 60 lbs by summer.  Can I do it?  Maybe.  Is it likely, well no, probably not, but you never know, I do have an amazing group of ladies to support me, I have the resources and I have the motivation, so stay tuned, I will update every week what I did and what results I got.  I will also put up a picture, so..... don't eat food when you read this... ;)


                       Friday, January 4th- 208.4 lbs