I think I might join Weight Watchers. I think I might do better with a group environment. I think I might try. I know my mother tried when I was little. So maybe I need a group environment and support from others to help me get through my weight problem and help me change my habits to good, positive ones. I know ya'll must be sick of me talking about weight. However, it is an important issue to talk about. ^_^

Blessings!

Serenity

Well I have given thought to what I can do to lose this weight that I have accumulated. I first need to limit my tv time. I think we have become a nation that prefers tv and the internet over more interesting activities. I know I could be doing better things than staring at the box. It is sorta like this habit that you pick up. It takes thirty days to make or break a habit. I am hoping that I can find out how many hours I watch tv and slowly bring it down to two hours at most.

My second thought is that I used to cook for myself. I still do...every once and a while. But I enjoyed cooking and planning meals. Now it's like there is no time for it. Between school and assignments and everything else, it is so difficult. I guess time management is something I need to look into. There is so much that one has to do and so little time. It does not help to be in school when trying to lose weight. Oh well.

Blessings!

Serenity

I am not going to pretty up the facts. We, as a nation, are fat. Obesity is a disease sweeping across the nation. I know this because I am fat. It is a reality that I am, unfortunately, having to face with myself. You see, when I came to South Carolina I was uprooted from my friends, family, and college up in WV. I loved the program I was in, Culinary Arts, and I loved my friends from the program...well most of them. I was engaged in a lot of activities and was never bored. When I moved down to SC I found myself without friends. The only friend I had who I could constantly chat with was my best friend Danielle. There were no activities I could participate in and I had no way of going out, since, back then I had no driver's license.

Furthermore, try babysitting two terrors who manipulated you and emotionally exhausted you. That was what I had to put up with until moving in to our house in 2005. I was never respected and thus I became depressed. So where do we turn to when we are depressed? FOOD! It is only natural. Food became my best friend because food never rejected me nor called me hurtful names or tried to manipulate me.

I feel that if I hadn't come down or had been introduced to those two boys who emotionally exhausted me then I would not have began my downward spiral. When I moved down here I was a 16...now I am a 22-24 size wearing 2x or 3x in some instances. I don't seem to have the energy to get my butt in gear to lose this weight. Though I really want to. I want to be thin. Not supermodel thin. Not wearing a 0 or a 2 thin. Just moderate, healthy weight. That is all I ask.

That is why I am going to try to find a way to get my butt in motion. Whether I have to join Weight Watchers plus go to the gym 7 days a week or walk around the subdivision every night (because it is like 92 degrees in the day). I want to be a size 14 by the time graduation rolls around and I am sure I will be that size if I can find a way to stick to a plan.

Anyway, enough of me ranting.

Blessings!

Serenity