What is Melting My Ice about??

Welcome to Melting My Ice!

And here it is, the ice breaker.  Your first sense of me and why I am here.  Well, I am at a point in my life.  I have 3 kids.  They are crazy amazing!!  Next year my youngest will start Kindergarten and my oldest will start High School.  I am starting to notice something now that they are getting older and more self sufficient.  And that something is ME!!

I have decided the next year has to involve a bit more of me taking care of myself.  Next year will also mark my 40th birthday.  Seems weird to type that out.  I still look and feel 20 something.  But my Dad passed away 2 weeks before his 50th birthday.  I have my Dad's nose, his beautiful brown eyes, and his extreme weight problem.  If I am on his path I have 10 years to get it right.  And before his death there were many years of heart problems.  I can't go there.  My 3 amazing kids need me here well into adulthood, my grandkids need to know me and I don't want to be apart from my husband.  Now if God decides to call me tomorrow, that's God's call.  But I am not going to help the process along.

I have done it all.  Weight Watchers (3 or 4 times, maybe 5 or 6 including online attempts), Jenny Craig, Healthy Inspirations, Form-U 3, many online memberships (Jillian Michaels, EDiets, Sparkpeople, etc.)  And that all doesn't include what I have tried just on my own. I have lost 80 pounds on 1 program and I have gained it all back.  Problem is, time is running out for me.

I have decided to look into surgery.  I have started the Gastric Bypass route before.  But then we moved to a different state and a different life.  Now that I have tried and failed so miserably I need to try something completely different.  There is an informational meeting tomorrow at a local Holiday Inn Express.  I will let you know how it goes.