My Weightloss Journey

My mother used to be an aerobics instructor when I was a little girl, so at my house there was a content obsession with weight, seriously, I feel like I have been on a diet my whole life. It was really confusing because she would obsess over my weight then bring home doughnuts for breakfast...does that make any sense? So I guess it goes without saying that my self image was pretty bad almost from the start. This went on all through Elementary and Jr. High, looking back at those pictures, I now realize that I really wasn't "fat" at all. My mother told my sister not long ago that she would bother us about our weight all the time.....so we wouldn’t get "fat" WTF?

During my relationship with my ex he did everything and everything to destroy the little bit of self esteem I did have, he would call me fat, ugly, and tell me that no man would ever want a woman with three kids (well I proved him wrong). I mean, I didn’t get it, I would walk down the street and get plenty of attention, and have men telling me I was beautiful all the time, but when I looked in the mirror, I couldn’t see what they saw...not even close, thanks Loser, thanks mom

When I met my husband I was weighing about 180 lbs, which is a bit overweight for my 5'8 stature, but being that I was blessed with my grandmothers hour glass shape (all of my weight is ass, thighs & hips)....I hid it pretty well. I gained weight, as most women do in relationships, seriously, what do you do besides go out to eat or stay home and eat. Even though I gained weight, never once did Al make me feel bad about my body.....he complimented me soo much that it kinda felt weird (if that makes any sense).

My weight fluctuated up and down through the years, crash diets, miracle pills.....you name it, I did it. Would I lose weight? YES, would it always come back? YES!

Al & decided to pack up the family and move from NYC to Miami to buy a house. We did this....being that Al had never had any children, the next step was to have a baby. With all honesty, I was perfectly content with just having my 3 girls, but I knew Al would be an amazing father and parenthood is something that I wanted to experience with him. So we decided to try and get pregnant. I went to the GYN and removed my IUD that had been in place for eight years, and within 3 weeks I was pregnant. WOW……talk about fertile huh, I could just hear his sperms "hey guys....wooooooo, this is what we have been practicing for all these years"..he heh

After having Kai my weight was at an all time high of 217 lbs, I felt like crap about myself. I started dieting on my own and going to the gym and lost 11 lbs. A couple of girls I know joined Weight Watchers (WW), so I decided to give it a try…..and the weight just started shedding off, as of today, I am down 55.5 lbs and I feel great! I couldn’t have done it without Weight Watchers…seriously, Fad diets are just that…..the only way to lose weight and keep it off, is with good ol’ fashioned diet and exercise and Weight Watchers gives you the tools to do just that.



I am rewarding myself with a tummy tuck in December, after all, I have had 3 pregnancies (twins and 2 single births) so I can do crunches til the cows come home, but the loss of elasticity in the skin on my abdomen and the muscle separation is something that I cant fix.

okay, I guess I should go do some work now....talk to you soon