Everything has a beginning.

So this is my first blog. Well not technically but I am hoping that this will be my first successful blog. I was not nearly tech savvy enough the for the last go round and the tech was not nearly dumbed down enough for me to use. Anyway just for clarification I am not "Desperately Seeking" anyone who maybe a size 6. No, I am seeking my own size six. I am on a mission to live a healthier life. I am currently more than double my optimal body weight <gasp>. Looking back I don't really know how I got here. I mean I have always been voluptuous, rubenesque, plus sized, yada yada yada but I have never been this big. I weigh more now than I did right before I gave birth to my son!

My son, that is the real reason that I want to be successful with this lifestyle change. I really don't want to have a heart attack at the age of 35. I want to see him graduate high school and college, get married, have kids, or whatever it is that he wants to do. I just want to be able to be there for him. As things are now I can't even play with him. I get out of breath walking from the apartment to the parking lot for Pete's sake, which is maybe 50 feet away but probably less.

So here it is. Starting now I am going to turn my life around. I am going to exercise more, eat less, and eat healthier. I am determined to make this work. I recently told someone that "... when things get hard and you don't want to continue forward you have to anyway. That is how you succeed. That is how you accomplish your goals. If you give up instead of persevering then it isn't a question of whether or not you are capable of accomplishing your task because you didn't really try..." I figure it is time to take my own words of wisdom and apply them to myself.