Destiny said I would be fat....she's such a jerk!

I have got to be insane! I am actually going to blog about my weightloss. Whew, so here it goes. That picture? That's me. No, not the cute one in the hat, the fat one. Yep, her.

I am 34 a mother of 3 and I have been married to the man of my dreams for 10 years. I grew up in the San Francisco bay area and I now reside in Hell, oops, I mean the desert. Outside of Las Vegas. Where it is definatley too hot to be fat! I am a photographer, homeschool teacher, chef, maid, taxi, pageant mom, etc, etc, etc.

I have been following a doctors "diet" for the past 5 months, which has consisted of vitamin B-12 shots once a month and Phentermine pills. The only other change I have made to lose weight has been to stop drinking soda (although I cheat). I was up to about 1 liter of pepsi a day. It makes me sick, now, to think I was consuming that much soda everyday.

So far, I have lost 3 dress sizes and I have gone from weighing 287 to 264. I had been doing this to appease my insurance which required a six month doc recommended diet plan before they would pay for a LapBand surgery. I really want the surgery because I had the mindset that I would only lose weight if I am starving myself. My doctor has been against weightloss surgery from the beginning. So I went to the doc for my regular check in last week and he said forget the surgery, you are doing so well, let's get you to lose the weight the right way. So I have decided to heed his advice, and do this the old fashioned way. Plus he is really hot, so it is kind of hard to argue with him.

Ok, that is out of the way...... So here I am. I joined the local gym today and I am going to blog my story. I am actually excited for this challenge. I come from a family of large people so the poor habits have been handed down generation to generation. My family even came to America from Germany and opened a bakery!!! We were made to be big! Almost everyone in my family has either diabetes, heart issues, sleep apnea. You name it, we got it! I am ready to break this horrible family curse and make sure my kids grow up healthy, happy and thin!