ABOUT WILMA

I'm Wilma - I'm in my late 30's heading straight for my 40's and getting more and more worried about my health! I've struggled with weight issues all my life. I can only remember being "thin" for very short periods of time and I could never keep it off. Obesity runs on both sides of my family and the women all have struggled. My sisters are in the same boat. I've spent a lifetime dieting and I'm done with that. I refuse to deprive myself all the time just to lose a bunch of weight only to not learn my lesson and gain it all back when I'm not looking! I'm to a point where I'm doing it for my health and to feel better about myself. It's not as important to me how I look to others. But if I feel good and am taking good care of myself, it will show externally and that'll just be the icing on the cake (nice metaphor, huh!?). I'm married and have been for a long time, to the love of my life and thankfully he's never critical of my weight issues. I spend alot of time indoors but live in a sunny, warm place year round and don't enjoy it for what it is, the way I should! My weight issues hold me back from doing alot of things and I'm not going to go another year regretting not doing things because of it. So my goal is 135. My starting weight was 279 - that's ALOT of weight but I'm making changes, not just dieting so it may take me some time. I hope I can hang in there...