This IS the year...

So - because I have nothing better to do...cough cough cough......a friend on a weight loss sight asked us to go make Virtual models of ourselves, now and at our goal weight....so I am game..... This is before...as in now.....kind of creepy to see your scalped off head on a fake model, but also rather eerie on how much the body shape is mine. (was really ticked that the site would not let me put that cute tshirt on this model! What are they trying to say!?) Also rather a HUGE wake up call. Not that I don't see myself in the mirrow every day, but most times us gals get pretty good at not "seeing" ourselves in the mirror, if you know what I mean.
And this is me at what would be my goal weight...40 lbs away....I used to look like this. I was pretty cute huh? (This is not even the lowest WW says I can go...the low range for my height is 15 lbs smaller than that...can y ou imagine?)

So again, I proclaim...this IS the year, I lose the weight!

Health reasons rule. As nice as it will be to look good, I need to get healthy. At this rate, if I do live to see my grandchildren, I will not be healthy enough to enjoy it. With the heart disease that runs rampant on my father's side of the family - young at age, and not limited to the men -the diabetes I just learned my father has, and the cancer risk on my mom's side....the ONE thing I can control is what goes in my mouth, and how much I exercise. I KNOW that. But Knowing and Doing are two entirely different things.

so there it is. For all the world to see. Hopefully I can look back at this post next year, and say oh yeah - remember that!?