I am 29 years old. I am the mother of 5 beautiful children, 4 girls and one boy. I have a fantastic husband who has stayed in love with me through thick and thin, lol, pun intended. I started my weight loss journey on November 1st 2008. I weighed 254lbs. I wore a sz 24 pants.

I got lazy over the last 8 months, more so over the last 4 months. My husband lost his job and I begin to work like crazy. He took over my role as mom and I felt without a purpose. I would sit on Facebook most of the days that I did not have to work. I got fat and lazy and then upset about being fat and lazy so I ate...a lot, and not the good stuff. During this time God ask us to adopt. We started the process of a little baby from Russia. She is deaf and blind. I never thought my husband would agree and didnt think we could ever adopt. It has been stressful so instead of exercising and getting ready I sat on facebook and ate. Our door to Russia was closed and we lost our referral(our little girl). Long story very short we have a son. You can read our whole story on our blog http://linnea-ourjourneytoadoption.blogspot.com/

So here I am, deleted facebook, and decided enough of this. I am going to exercise and not eat so much crap. Hopefully I can achieve my goals and also maintain my new lifestyle.

40lb weightloss goal met January 2009!!
50lb loss goal met Feb 6th 2009!!
Under 200 goal met Feb 24th 2009!!
60lb goal by easter met March 13th 2009!!
Birthday goal weight of 190 met March 23rd 2009!!
70lb New Easter goal met April 9th 2009!!
90lbs gone on June 12th 2009!!
100lbs gone on
Size 12 dress goal met not sure April 2009 i think
size 10 dress met May 6th 2009
BMI calculator no longer says Obese on may 7th 2009!!!!!
fatsecret goal of 170lbs met on May 19th 2009!!!!!!!
12lbs gone by Christmas goal met on
New Fatsecret goal of 150 met on