About Me

I'm a 44 year old, single, independant woman and recent empty-nester. 

I started gaining weight around the age of 23, you know that age - the age where you realize that you can't eat what you want anymore without gaining weight. Over the years a few big things happened to me that lead to my emotional eating and weight gain:  the loss of my mother, a failed marriage, a layoff, living on my own for the first time in my life and becoming a single empty-nester.

I lost over 60 pounds about 3 years ago on WW, stopped trying and gained it back and then some.  I've since dealt with the emotional-eating issues, got my life back on track and also changed to primal eating (no grains, sugar or processed foods) and feel more in control than ever before.

I've learned that I need to live the best life for me that I can. I need to be healthy in order to be here for my family and I want to start this next phase of my life on the right foot.

Here are a few things that interest me:  weight loss, fitness, healthy eating, photography, interior decorating, furniture refinishing, cooking, reading, gardening, sunshine/being outdoors, self-help "stuff", spirituality.