Arriving in Malibu in 5 Days!!!

Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog! I am super excited to do this, not only to share with all of my family and friends, but because I know months from now coming back to this blog will help me remember every emotion good or bad I felt thru this whole thing.  It will aslo serve as a tool for myself and others, I am sure I will be given million tidbits thru this experience, and what a great way to keep up with them!

Ok, so here is my story.  Longggggg story made pretty short! LOL

I started my weight loss journey on August 27, 2007.  I know that date, because it was the day that both of my children were officially in school, and I finally had time to start doing something for me!!  So at my start I weighed in at 301lbs! I have been working hard every since and I am now down to 157. No surgeries, just good old fashioned dieting/life changing with a little girl time at the track with which ever of my girlies could. (I hateeeee excersise.)  Crazy thing is I thought if I EVER got to 200 I would be happy with that... then 175 ohh that will be the day... wellll now I am prettty close to 150, but sadly some days I feel I may as well that 301 lb woman, because that's how I feel inside. 

So for me coming to the BL resort, is to lay that emotional weight down, and hopefully come home goal reached, and ready to just live a long healthy life!

I am coming with my marvelous husband, who is excited to be beginning his journey! And I am super pumped he is ready to start!  We have learned alot lately about how short life is, and the two of us want to be around for long time, and enjoy the QUALITY of that life!

We come from families who battle obesity and the complications of that disease! And we are ready to LOSE it all!  I pray that God fills me with the knowledge and strength to come home and pay this forward! There are several people in my life who feel they will never see their goal, and I want to help, prove and encourage them to see that if I can... they most definatley can!

Now I will not be speaking for him in this blog, but our family and friends at home wanna know just how we are doing, so this will be daily proof that we ARE still alive!

I guess if I dont post again, I will see you here once I'm in Malibu!