The Journey Begins

Hello all. It is the eve of a new journey for me. Tomorrow I am starting Weight Watchers. I have been feeling so out of control for a long time now with my weight, and felt the timing was perfect for me to start this program. I have done Weight Watchers before, so I am familiar with the program. My mom and I lost alot of weight on it a few years back. Unfortunately, that weight found its way back to me and brought a few friends with it!!!

Why did I decide to do this? I know John would love to see me lose weight (bless his heart, he NEVER says a word about it). I know my parents would love to see me lose weight. My mom and I have struggled what seems to be a neverending battle with our weight most of our lives. (She is much thinner than I am, but still struggled). I also think Travis would like to see me lose weight (but again, he just said today, I think you are beautiful mom. God love him). Most of all, I want to lose weight for ME. Alot of it is for health reasons, but it would be nice to be more aesthetically pleasing to the eye for people!! I would love to go in and buy clothes without that feeling of dread, "Am I going to find ANYTHING that will fit and look good?"

I went to my first meeting tonight. My leader is a really nice guy named Cole. He lost 125 pounds. Wow. I have to admit, I was a wee bit intimidated with a male leader. But he is great!! This group meets at the Southland Mall in Marion on Monday's at 6:00. It is a small class, but everyone seems really nice. I also met a lady who lives in the town next to me, Prospect. We clicked, and we were both starting out tonight. We exchanged phone numbers, and I'm looking forward to see how we both do next week at weigh in.

Weigh in today was a bit of a shock. There is NO WAY I can be that fat!!! OMG, where did all this weight come from? Just yesterday I weighed 109 pounds. No wait, that was actually 23 years ago when I graduated.

Knowing that I was going to be starting Weight Watchers tomorrow, I decided to eat something bad for me tonight. We made fried zuchini (with zuchini from our garden) and also gnocchi with butter and parmesan cheese on it. Yumitha!! But that will be the last time for those kinds of goodies!!

I decided to start this blog as an accountability resource, mostly for my self. I'm not really sure at this point who I will share this blog with, but I hope to put pics on monthly to mark my progress. Sometimes it is better to see it coming off by looking at pics and comparing. I'm hoping I go far!!!!!

Anyway, thats it for tonight. I want to go read over some of the information as well as look for some Weight Watchers recipes online.

Wish me luck!!! I'll let ya know next week how I do!!

Kim