ThIs iS ....JuSt ThE BeGiNnInG

As far as I can remember, Ive always been overweight, fat, obese, chubby, big-boned, pleasantly plump, plus-sized or however you want to name it, and along with those memories were attempts to "battle the bulge", and although most were successful but I could never manage to keep the weight off. But now I am at a moment in my life where I feel like ThIs iS It!!! The eye opening moment for me was when my best friend of 10 years revealed to me that she had been diagnosed with hypertension in August 2009 due to a blood pressure that a 55 year old should have, not a 23 year old. This resulted in her having to miss work for 2 weeks and be placed on medications with a ton of side effects worse than the actual hypertension. Not to mention that Iam taking advanced pharmacology and just hearing about the complications of anti-diabetic and anti-hypertensive drugs has me seeing things a whole lot clearer now.So why blog? I feel that if I blog then I cannot quit. I am the type of person that if I start something and other people are supportive, then I will not quit because they are looking for me to finish. Folks with normal metabolisms and people who have never struggled with weight may look at me and say "why is that so hard?", but eh, we all have our struggles. And ThIs iS mInE.