[Leila]

1) How did you hear about the site?
I was watching biggest loser season 4 and I did a search and found this site

2) Reasons for joining?
I'm doing the same thing everyone else on this site is doing. Changing my lifestyle to be a happier, smaller, sexier me.

3) Current Weight
178 pounds

4) Current/Past Lifestyle Habits (do you exercise and if so for how long, what exercise? what is your nutrition like, what are you eating on a daily basis? do you smoke? drink?)
I would eat ANYTHING that I chose to eat. i felt like my mom "controlled" what I ate as a kid so now that I'm in charge, boy do I prove to the world that I'm in charge. In goes the chocolate, ice cream, fatty foods! anything my hearts desire! But I don't like being this size so I prayed and asked God to help me lose weight. If God can care about my everything, then my overweightness is part of everything.

I went into a grocery store and I looked at all the labels of the foods I used to buy. HOLY MOLY! Those foods are BAD! high in sodium, high in fat, ingredients that I didn't even know how to pronounce!

So I decided to eat more raw fruits, veggies, whole wheat, and less chocolate and ice cream.

exercise: I was always picked LAST on the team. =( BOO FRIGGEN HOO!!! Well I've changed my activity. I MOVE 4xs a week. It's a life style change meaning I have to learn how to be active for the rest of my life, not for just a year. I lost a lot of weight once but it was bc I was jogging. Then i stopped jogging and the weight +SOME came back (typical story). So I'm not trying to be cosmo-exercise woman. I'm trying to be practical and move 4xs a week. My body is liking it more and more!!!

I also had an ankle injury and was on medication. It caused a 15lb gain within 1.5 years. BOO.

5) Things you have trouble with in losing weight
I used to over eat. God helped me see the ROOT of why i do that. Now I don't do it anymore. God is good. He's my personal trainer and supporter.
Not moving enough.
No control over what I was putting into my mouth

6) Things you have tried in the past for weight loss (did they work before?)
exercise. eating less. eating healthy. eating poorly.


7) What do you want to change in your life?
losing weight is not just about losing weight. I want to improve my LIFE in all areas and I want to take care of myself in ALL AREAS. My body is ONE of those areas.

8) What are your short and long term goals for weight loss?
Long term: 135lbs goal weight (i'm 5'6'', average body frame)
short term: keep exercising 4xs a week, keep eating well and just loving myself. We'll see if the pounds come off. heehee.. it takes time so I'm looking at a year or 2 b4 I see my body really change.