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Ending My Obsessive Warped Journey

I've been up and down and all over the scale my whole adult life.  I have come to realize that it is not the plan that I am on that isn't working, it's my head that needed tweaking.  I've always been completely honest here, and I am not ashamed of anything that has happened in my life....It has all been a learning experience.  My highest weight was 252.  That was...I wanna say 10 years ago maybe?  My sister and I joined Weight Watchers and I lost 50 pounds in just under a year.  I didn't do it the correct way.  I restricted. I juggled.  I deprived myself.  I could gain 7 pounds in a week and shed it in 3 days.  That is not healthy.  That is not sustainable. After I left Weight Watchers later that following year, I gained around 25 pounds back fairly quickly.  I didn't learn my lesson when I joined Weight Watchers again a few years later.  I gained and lost the same 10 pounds in the year that I was going to meetings.  I talked myself into quitting because it is

I Am Home

I now t's been a while..... I am still trying :) For years now, Greg has wanted to live in the middle of nowhere....Live off the land.  He would be in his element!  I would jokingly tell him he should find that place, I would visit once or twice a month and bring food...... Recently we have been toying with the idea of getting a little place to get away.  Since we both love the water, we were searching places near bodies of water.  Greg likes to fish and our Lake Erie is good fishing, although it is hit or miss to get out in a boat.  There is a man-made lake near us that he also fishes on so we were looking in that area.  We were shocked to find that even 1/4 a mile a way from the lake, the houses were totally outrageous, price wise, and for just a tiny "shack" that would need tons of work.  It was then that we decided on buying a camper and renting a camp space for the year.  We always wanted to camp, but with me working Saturdays, it wasn't doable.  Now that I