BSimon51

Hi,
I am a 51 year old working single mother of 3 adult children and 1 teenager. I have struggle with my weight all of my life and this time I would really like to loose the weight. My main reason for loosing the weight is health. I have suffered from high blood pressure most of my adult life and am determined to be free from all medications related to hbp. My mother died at the age of 70 from complications from a major stroke and recently I have had two close coworkers to die in their 50s from complication from hbp and heart disease. I do not want to put my children through that type of pain when it is something that I can control. I started the WW program back in January 2009 and by May 2009 I had lost 40 lbs. I could no longer afford to attend the meetings which mean the tools online so I thought I could do it by myself. I realized I needed the tools because the weight as beginning to creep back on so I surfed the web and came upon Fatsecret which had the tool I needed. Since May I put on 15 pounds of the 40 I had lost and decided to give WW another try using fatsecret. I am looking forward to the challenge and hopefully by the end of this year I would have lost the total of 50 pounds which was my goal since January. I am taking this journey one pound at a time. Oh I forgot to say, after loosing the 40 lbs my blood pressure became normal and I am hoping that when I go to the doctor in October that she will either decrease my blood pressure medication or take me off completely as well as hoping my total cholesterol will be below 200.