My Journey

Stats:	date:
Start weight:	14th July 05	85kg (187lbs)
Latest weigh in:	20th July 05	85kg (187lbs)
Total loss:	To date	0kg (0lbs)
Personal goal:	By 2006	65kg (143lbs)
Mini goal:	Current	To loose 1st 6kg and be 70 something instead of 80 something!

My name is Samantha and I am a 24 year old stay at home mother of 2 gorgeous boys age 2 years and 9 months. We live in Australia and I am married to Neil and have been for 2 & 1/2 years! As a kid I was overweight and as a result I was teased and hated sports. I was so happy when around 12 I started to get taller and slimmer and by the time I was in my mid teens I was a size 10 and under 60kg. I hadn't been able to get over being 'the fat kid' because even at my slimmest I still thought I was on the 'bigger' side. I have never liked exercise much I used to walk a lot as a teen to get places but as soon as I got a licence and a car I pretty much had no form of regular exercise except the odd night clubbing. After moving in with my hubby we got a lot of take way and didn't live a very healthy lifestyle. From then on the weight just kept creeping on and on, by the time our wedding day came around I was 80kg at 21 years old. I got pregnant right after the wedding and although I put on some during the pregnancy I lost it all when I had my son Liam. Breastfeeding was a different story I found I was more hungry and had more cravings when feeding than I did when I was pregnant. I crept up again to 90kg and it was at that weight I found out I was pregnant again. The second pregnancy was much harder on me and I guess I didn't eat much because I didn't put on much weight I think the most it got to was 93kg and that's the heaviest I have ever been. After I had my second little boy Owen I was 85kg and that's where I still am now 9 months later so I have joined 'weight watchers' and 'lite n easy'!