My First Post - Erin here!

Hi ladies, I was reading the thread on self.com and thought I'd come check out the blog. You guys are so awesome! I would love to join in if y'all will have me!! I have been changing my way of eating/living since January 30 of this year, and so far am down from 185 to 158. I am now down to like 30 or 35 pounds left to lose, (I'm only 5'3) and I know that is a little less left than a lot of y'all, but I really feel like I fit in here and would love the accountability and support that you all seem to have to offer. I mean, it's like some of us are living parallel lives; I've been ordering workouts from on demand tv, I'm addicted to fit tv, and I am finally seriously committed to looking and feeling good. I've been mildly overweight my whole life, (though looking back on a lot of old pics, I was nowhere near as big as I thought I was, I would kill to look like I did when I was 18, and I thought I was so big.) I have never been athletic or active, always a bit on the lazy side, definitely never really healthy at all, I guess the only reason I wasn't bigger sooner was I also didn't overeat all that much, I just ate the wrong stuff. Well, life catches up. I had my son when I was 21, I'm now 29, and when my now-husband and I got together, I pretty much started eating what he did, when he did. BAD NEWS. His metabolism is appallingly fast of course, and long story short, I gained about 50 pounds over the last 6 years. On January 30, I just had an epiphany: I will do this, I will be healthy, I will work out... I can do this!! The results came fast and furious for me, I think because I changed everything all at once, completely changed the way I ate, I write it all down; (calorieking.com is my bible), I started exercising, cut out most simple sugars all the way (I'm at risk for type 2 diabetes). I feel better, I have energy, I actually like eating and living this way, and most importantly, I have hope. I know I can look the way I want to, and feel better about me. I've never ever ever liked or been satisfied with me. Due to that, I've never really put any value into taking care of me. That changed on 1/30/08. :)
Hope I can join y'all and I look forward to the fun times ahead!!

-Erin