Introductions

A Little bit about me, My name is Julie and i am a Stay at Home Mom to 4 Young Boys. Their ages are 6,4,2 and 7.5 Months. Shiloah graciously had allowed me to contribute to this blog in hope that it will help keep me motivated.

I have always been classed at overweight. After the births of my 1st and 2nd sons i was able to lose most of the weight. At the beginning of my 3rd pregnancy i was 160, and i wasn't to upset about it, It could have been better , but oh well. Well after he was born i was 170, then my husband and i started a chocolate chip cookie diet with milk, obviously that wouldn't help anyones weight. Within 3 months i jumped up to about 210 pounds! I tried to lose the weight and the closest i got was to about 202 Pounds. The i become pregnant with my 4th son, Thankfully i only gained a little bit of weight with him, and then after he was born i was down to 195 pounds. So lower then i was before i got pregnant but still not a healthy weight.

Since he has been born i have been tyring to lose weight with dieting, and exercising, however, when you live in a house full of chocolatholics its kindof hard, plus i cant seem to keep myself motivated to exercise for more then a day or two. However just over 2 weeks ago i went to the doctors for a check up, he is very concerned with my blood pressure, due to my weight.

So now my weight has become a health issue. So i decided something had to be done.

Since Last Monday i have been on a low card diet, as hard as it has been i have been trying to stick to it. I think the hardest has been cooking for the rest of my family but not being able to eat it. I have also banned cookies from our house. My husband is not aloud to make them, and to make sure he doesn't i wont buy any chocolate chips.
I have also been trying to exercise more, I dont really have an excuse not to exercise, we have a top of the line elliptical right in our home. I have been doing various fitness DVDs so i don't get bored with the same routine, every few days i switch them up. As well as i have been using our wii fit to track my exercises and weight.
I have also enlisted my husbands help in reminding me to exercise every night (well , almost ever night). Once the oldest 3 go to bed, he gets to watch the baby while i exercise.

So far iam down 6 Pounds~ to 190 ~ I am the lowest now then i have been since Feb 2007.
I am hoping that i can keep up the weight loss. My goal is to be about 150.
Every time i reach one of my goals (about every 10 pounds) if i can stay their for a week i get to go out and buy something. For instance, because i have reached 190, if i can stay their for a week then i can go and buy new printer ink so i can print my pictures.

I'll try and post my activities every few days and how the weight loss is going.