Winter Blues

So, fall came, then winter. Holidays, snow, gray days, winter doldrums ... the scales started to climb again. I did not feel like I had much support from my family to be healthy. Once while logging in my food intake for the day at the SparkPeople Nutrition Tracker my 14 year-old says, “Of course you’re losing weight, you spend all of your time on the computer and have no time to eat.”. They would give me a hard time about what I was choosing to eat and tease me about “the diet”.

Pretty soon I was back at that dreaded 150. Why do I hate that number? I was 118 prior to the birth of my first child. He is 16 ½.. Following the birth of my 5th child I had hit about 127 and was happy there. I would fluctuate between 127-133 depending on the time of the month and the year, but it was okay. This new number I am not okay with. I have heartburn a lot of the time, my old clothes don’t fit and I don’t like the new ones. And I just don’t have an over-all feeling of wellness.