I am a mom of three.  I have been skinny with a high metabolism for all of my life.  I was basically underweight, so I got to eat like a trucker all the time.  Thirty years later I had my last child, a surprise blessing.  I had a harder time loosing weight this time.  With my last two pregnancies the baby weight just fell off.  This time I lost some of it but I started smoking.  Then after a year and half of smoking I decided this was not what I wanted.  So I quit smoking and started gaining weight again.  I have never been this heavy and not be pregnant, and my metabolism has come to a grinding halt.  I am 40 years old with a toddler and two adult children.  I have a blog about saving money and writing is a hobby of mine that someday I would like to do full time.  

I have been a divorced mom, abused mom, teenage mom, single mom, working mom, and a stay at home mom.  I don't want to be an over weight mom.  I am tall so my weight is hiding well, but I know that I am over weight and out of shape.  I want to feel better, and to be able to live longer for my children, young and old. 

But I have had thirty years of truck stop eating that is hard for me to unlearn.  I love good tasting food and I have never had a problem with weight now I have to rethink food, and it is hard.   It also seems like my internal organs never went back to where there were before the last pregnancy because I still look like I am pregnant, and have heartburn with everything including water.  I do confess to being a pepsi holic but I think my main concern is lack of exercise.