I am a 32 year old mother of a 5 yr old and a 5 month old.  I am 5'5 and 144.8lbs as of today.  Before children I was a constant 118lbs for years and worked out at least 4 days a week and lived a healthy lifestyle.  After my first child I lost most of the baby weight quickly and got back into shape but never weighed 118lbs again.  I stayed at 125lbs for a year and then after her 1st birthday I slowly stopped the excercising, started eating less healthy once in a while and by the end of the year I was 130lbs.  Year 2, same lifestyle now 135lbs, year 3 140lbs, year 4 145lbs.  Then I did a 3 month cleanse with Dr. Natura's Colonix and got back into excercising and dropped to 132 lbs in 3 months.  I felt great and was on a roll to lose another 10lbs over the next 3 months but then very happily got pregnant with our 2nd child.  Weigh in at delivery was 163lbs and within the first month I was back down to 137lbs.  THEN.......I slowly started reverting back to bad habits (pop, fast food, snacking) and never got on the excercise band wagon and now I am back up to 144.8lbs.  I AM DONE!!!  I WANT MY OLD BODY BACK!!  With that body came confidence, self assurance, great energy, great sex with my husband, LOVE OF LIFE!   I walk by a mirror and I don't even recognize myself.  I look through old pitures from ONLY 5 YRS AGO and think how did I let this happen, I AM 32!!  I should have that old body for a good 20 yrs left!!  I DO NOT expect to ever weigh 118lbs again!!  I am being realistic.  I want to weigh 125lbs and I want to do it within 6 months.  That should be acheivable!  I am starting a food diary today and have started my ONE MONTH COLONIX cleanse today to get me going.  I plan on sharing my story b/c many of these other stories are inspiring me.  I am not obese, if you didn't know me 5 yrs ago you wouldn't even think I was over weight now, but my body is 100% different.  I have 20 lbs to lose, that sounds easy but it is incredibly hard.  I have 26 weeks, if I can manage 1lb a week, with a few weeks left over for no weight loss, I should be able to pull it off.  I figure posting my story gives me accountability.  I have to answer to others even if to strangers.  I have never been more determined in my life and I know I can succeed.  I plan on working out 5 days a week, monitoring calorie burning.  I want to burn 500 calories per workout, and eat no more than 1200 calories per day for the 1 st 4 weeks.  I'll see what results I get from this and make changes if I have to in 4 weeks.  I am eating Lean cuisine meals for lunches (210 to 280 calories) and for dinner I will need to be very creative but am very excited.  For breakfast today I had a hard boiled egg with half a grapefruit.  WISH ME SUCCESS!!!  And Success wishes go out to all of you!

Last edited by new mama2 (2008-11-21 10:07:05)