This is me.....

Hi, my name is Anissa. I am a 35 year old, SAHM who is severely overweight. I would even say obese. Yuck, I hate that word. I have never (that I can remember) said this to anyone outside of my family and doctor, but I weigh 205 lbs. I personally want to loose 75 lbs. My doctor wants me to loose 90-95lbs. Yikes!

Anyhow, I have some serious issues. Even when I was at my most fit and athletic......mountain climbing, running marathons, playing racquetball and softball (with men mind you) there was always somebody or some entity telling me I was still overweight or "FAT". Men (besides my husband) never liked me unless I was skinny and growing up my family had issues with being skinny. It was never good enough.....I was told I wasn't skinny and that my friends lied to me when they told me I looked nice. Not even good, just nice. But, according to my family, they were lying. I think those reasons are directly what led to my emotional eating problem. It's huge too!

Anyhow, those are just a few of the things I deal with. I have to say I have a wonderful husband, who doesn't neccesarily see eating the way I do and keeps chips and soda in the house, he does support me on every other level. He ensures we have enough money for the gym memberships, healthy foods, sports clothing/shoes and/or doctors.

I don't know what they mean when they say "are you ready to loose the weight". I'm always ready, who isn't? I just haven't figured out how to get over my issues yet.

Oh one more thing. I don't neccesarily need to see dramatic, fast weight loss, but would like to see consistent weightloss over the next year. I figured out if I can loose "atleast" 4lbs a month, I can loose almost 50lbs. That is over half way to my goal in one single year.

Well, this is me.......