HHHEEERRREEE'S Crystal!!

Hello!  My name is Crystal and I am an over eater...insert "Hi, Crystal!" 

I didn't used to be this way.  Let's start at the beginning.  I was always a healthy child, never to big or too small, just right.  I was super skinny in high school.

See!  Super-skinny!  I call this my Pretty Woman dress.  That was my favorite movie.  I loved the scene where she's wearing the brown polka dot dress.  Well, this was my red polka dot Pretty Woman dress. 

Fast forward a few months and I met a man named Craig.  Craig was 9 years older than I was, but age was nothing to us.  We talked, then he started coming to church with me.

We dated...

Vests must have been really big in the late 90s

Got engaged...

So skinny and tan!

Got married

Still super skinny, but there's a story behind the dress.  I had to have it let out 3 times.  On the third time the seamstress said if I gained any more weight I'd have to get a different dress.  I attribute this to eating out a lot as part of our dates.  That's just what we did, we were a dating couple and as a dating couple you went out to eat.

Went on our honeymoon

My friends got married, and I got bigger

I graduated college and I got bigger

I had a baby and I got bigger

And bigger

And bigger

Had another baby and got even bigger

Here I am today...14 years after the Pretty Woman dress...the biggest I've EVER been, even pregnant I wasn't this big.

But, I have to say my husband loves me no matter what size I am.  I do want to lose weight for him, for my kids, but mostly for myself.  I want to get healthy and make better choices.  I don't want to be the "fat mommy" at school anymore.  I want my kids to be proud of me and my husband to be proud of me.  I WANT to be proud of me.  I want to get control over this before it's too late. 

That's a little about me.  I'll be posting again letting you know what I'm doing to aid in losing the weight.