40 overweight and fed up with it

This past July I turned the big 4-0.  Numbers have never really bothered me, in fact I really love birthdays so I am not one that will be 39 and holding.  What is the fun in that.  I look at my mother-in-law, who in November turned 89, and realized that each year is a new goal to the next and that celebrating the accumulation of those years is so important.

So what makes me so fed up?  I have been overweight for much of my adult life.  My Junior year in college we found out that my Grandma had incurable cancer and I swung into what I now realize was a deep depression and the pounds began.  I regained some control prior to my second child but if I really want to see 89 like my Mother-in-law I am going to need to make some healthy changes in order to even come close to that goal.

What am I going to do about it?  That is the big question.  It has to be a new way of life it can’t just be quick fix or these pounds will just come back.  I want to make myself accountable to someone but I am not sure who.  So I chose you, whoever you are, reading along and I will not only share my successes and there better be some, but also my failures and goodness knows there will be some of those.

Thank you for coming along on the ride and feel free to join in and journey with me to a healthier being.