I am 42 years old and going through a world of change right now. I expect it to last for the next couple years. After losing a job I dearly loved last summer, I am working on opening my own company and, in the meantime, trying to find other other small jobs to keep the money coming in until I can get my project off the ground.

This change has also involved a move back to my hometown to be closer to my family. Not an easy move or an easy decision, since I was DEARLY connected in the town that I left.

And, to top all of this off, I decided that after a lifetime of being overweight, I was committed to taking off the weight. I am not the heaviest I've ever been (that was 325!!), but if I kept living the way that I was, I'd get there. There is so much out of control in my life right now, that I wanted to address something that I know I can take control of. So, in late January I decided that I was going to do it.