Well I am down to 199.5 just under 200.

At 263

At 199.5

The weight loss journey has been long and hard.  Recently I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.  I have completely changed the way that I eat.  I am following Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman.  I am trying to lose weight so that I can be medication free....

229

Hah I have lost some weight....

236...

Well it looks like it is going to take a miracle for me to lose weight. I am down 1 pound from last week. When I had the stomach bug i got down to 255 I was excited. HA I am still not eating normally and I gained all of the lost weight back. I need some help to figure this out I am extremely frustrated at this point with laundry and people being sick. Em is sick today it seems like it is never ending and we just can't get back on schedule. The stress levels are pretty high here. I was feeling so rewarded with the sick weight loss I knew I would gain some of it back because I had lost it so quickly but all of it... Come on...

Ofiicially 260...

Down to 261... It hasn't been an easy battle. Yesterday was really difficult lots of things went wrong. The kids have the stomach flu so that made things more difficult I was functioning on less sleep than usual and we had a sump pump laundry disaster. I felt like my whole day revolved around cleaning and laundry so I really wasn't up to exercising yesterday. I will have to chalk that up to my free day this week. I am trying really hard to get at least 60 minutes in broken into 2 30 minute periods. I pray that the Lord sontinues to give me strenght over the next week or so as I start makeing Christmas presents which involves a lot of baking and candy making. OH my weakness.

Well so far so good. I feel like I am getting a decent workout on the elliptical. I need to keep up my motivation. That is the main thing. I just know that I have a long way to go in order to reach my goal weight.

We will start at the beginning. I am ashamed of how much weight I think that I need to lose. I am motivate. I would like to lose 100 pounds by Christmas of 2009. I pray that God will give me the strength to do it and that I will have the support of my family.

My Christmas present from my husband this year which is something that I asked for is a Keys center G elliptical. Definately more than we would have probably spent on something else but at this point I know that I really need to lose the weight and going to the gym has not been an option for me. I am not ready to start teh dieting part of the weight loss yet I am postponing that until after some of the holidays. The main reason for my wanting to lose the weight is I continue to see the medical problems that my parents have and I realize that I am rapidly travelling down the same path. This is not what I want for my children and I would like to enjoy them more as they grow up.

I am posting my pictures as I go on my journey. 1 to keep me motivated. 2. So I can see my progress. 3. So that hopefully it will inspire someone else to do the same.

I am currently 263.5 pounds. My ultimate goal weight is 130.
Shorter term goals to be 200 pounds by June.

Mini goals... try to exercise for at least 30 minutes 6 days a week.
try to drink 64 oz water.
I want to try and post pictures at least 2 times a month.
Post weight once a week.