My first day back!

As you can tell by my name, I have done lc before. This is my third time -- I think. Could be my fourth, but I'm not sure. I just know I'm tired of struggling with my weight and LC is the only way I have ever managed to take anything off. I just need to start looking at LC as a WOE instead of as a diet. My legs are so sore in the morning and it's hard to come down the steps. I just feel bloated all the time and overall yucky. One of my problems -- and I really shouldn't say a problem cause it's just an excuse -- is that I cook at a Christian camp. So I have to cook what's on the menu, and it's hard to walk away from some of those foods. But it's my health at stake here. Being overweight is not good for me.

Right now I weigh 212 pounds. I'm 5'8" tall and my normal weight until I was 25 was about 145. And then I ballooned up over the next couple of years till I was 220. When my dd was about 2yo, I did LC for the first time and got down to 175. But then I procrastinated and went back to my old eating habits. I started here a few years ago after I had put the weight back on and lost some but again went back to old habits. Why don't I learn. And then last August I did lc again and lost about 25 pounds. Then things got stressful at work last December and I started eating. Enough is enough! I'm tired of this. I need a change in my life. So here I am!!

Lenise