5'6", 212 lbs (gulp), 50 year old woman. Have struggled with my weight since my teens. Never been this heavy though. Bottom line...too many calories in, not enough calories out. I have promised myself that I will increase my activity level and stop overeating. Really want to go through the second half of my life doing great things for myself,in a body that radiates that, and with the best shot at good health I can possible have!! Signed up for the "Walk for an Hour" and "40 lbs. by Valentines Day" challenges.
2/1/15
We have become so obsessed with getting rid of our obsession, with riding on top of our suffering and ignoring its inherent message, that we lose the pieces of ourselves waiting to be found beneath it. But fixing ourselves is not the same as being ourselves."
Geneen Roth, Women Food and God

2/1/15 Back in 2011-12 when I was first active on this page another member recommended Geneen Roths book Women, Food, and God. The above passage is just one of many that really nailed me & my food thing; or more accurately my "one too many, a thousand too few" thing. Here I am, 54 y.o., started at 220 on 1/5/15 now at 208. So glad the elevator only went up 8 pounds in the past 4 years. Ready and Willing to be myself. Be is a verb. Elevator going down. Keep the promise I made to myself.