I am a 49 year old mother of 2 grandmother of 2. I work in a nursing home as an activity aide which I love my job. I am a widow but have a significant other at this time in my life. It was hard starting over again but I have been pleasantly surprised by my own ability to adapt. I have always prided myself on once i make up my mind to do something I have been able to achieve it. My family is predisposed to being heavy we are short and apple shape. I look like my mom who looks like my grandmother who looks like her mother. I lost 75 lbs before and felt great this was when my husband was still alive I used working out and dieting as a way to deal with what was happening. Then after he passed I didn't care again for awhile and the lbs crept up again. Then became hepatic due to antibiotic toxic and did my liver in which is funny in a way because I never drank much but still have liver problems. I also had gallstones and had that removed. And I quite smoking after 34 years. Then my weight gain really got out of control and took my knees with it. So now I have to work my weight down to try and relieve the knees. Part of my Job is walking a lot by pushing my residents around the facility its estimated even though we are walking slower we walk 6 to 8 miles. We rarely get to sit so I consider this my exercise weekly, because I work every other day. What makes it hard to walk so much because the floors are cement and there is no give while walking. Also i watch people struggle every day at work with diabetes and wheelchairs because their legs cant support their weight or the strokes leave them unable to move. So I have no excuse I know first hand what happens. So Im turning 50 at the end of this year and the next decade or two I want to walk through. Well not much more to say except Im going to do this for me only no other reason.