My First Post

(Let me preface this by saying that I'm not very good at telling a story so I promise this will be choppy and I will probably leave things out but you'll get the idea!)

Hi! Some of you know that I've been lurking and comment occasionally. I had my own weight loss blog but I'm not good at keeping up with it...so.....here I am!

I am Beth and I live in Pendleton. I'm a nurse in the intensive care at AnMed. Let's see....I've been married to my husband for 5 years now and we met at Clemson in Tiger Band. We have a beautiful little girl named Elaina and she is almost 16 months old. I think that's all the info on me!

December 2001:
I guess I should start this blog with my story. I was always a small child until I hit the 4th grade. I guess it's called puberty :-P My brother was the same way. Once I hit 4th grade I gained a lot of weight. I remember being in 5th grade and weighing in the mid-160's. For that age when you haven't finished growing upward....I was the largest girl in my class.

From then on I had a self-esteem problem from my weight. It just seemed to climb from there. In high school I was in the 190's at one point. I always wore boy clothes...because as everyone thinks....big clothes cover up the weight right? Wrong. I had the ugliest prom dresses....it was just bad! Long story short....I was always the largest of my friends...in fact they were all tiny and I was big.I went to Clemson in the fall of 1999 and actually LOST weight. None of my good friends went there and I didn't like to eat alone so when I did go eat I ate a plate fast and left. Eventually I made friends in the band but the food there was never really good so I didn't overeat. I think I ended up in the 170-180 range but several sizes smaller than previously. In high school I wore a 16-18....at the end of my freshman year I could wear a 14 easily.

May 2002?:

The next few years my weight teetered.....with getting an apartment and not eating on campus I went back to my bad eating ways (although no nearly as bad b/c I had to cook my own food!)

May 2003:

When I got pregnant in the spring of 2006 I had just started to really lose weight and was 169. I used pregnancy as an excuse to eat anything I wanted to. The morning I went into the hospital to be induced I was 218.5.

January 2007:
After having Elaina I was in the 180's for a while and the weight came off slowly. I had kept my gym membership the entire time I was pregnant (even though I didn't use it) and finally went back for good at the end of July of last year. I began working with a personal trainer once a week in August and had a starting weight of 174.

2 months went by and my weight stayed steady at 174 (the clothes sizes started going down b/c the building of muscle but the weight wouldn't budge). At the start of November I started doing weight watchers again on my own. The next few months I lost a total of 20 lbs.

Here lately I've had trouble staying on plan....the exercise part is easy for me but the eating gets me. I'm here to keep accountable and hope I can give you guys as much support and I know you'll give me. (and I can always use a good kick in the butt....so kick away!)

Here's one of the most recent pics I could find: