I’m married and also the proud mother of a 13 yr old boy. I have always been over weight and can say I have only been “THIN or Healthy” once in my life. In the last 5 yrs my weigh has been increasingly getting heavier as time goes on. This has been a losing battle for me and I don’t understand why. I have always been the kind of person to have control over myself and my life but I’ve seen this weight thing controlling my life. I do karate and have been for about 4 years and because of my weigh, is getting harder to do some things. I also use to jog and do races around town but even that got to hard to do after the weigh started coming back. My gold is to be able to go into my 2nd degree black belt test with a sense of know that I am physically and mentally able to get through it. Also I would like to be able to run the Tarzan run next November, which is a 5 and ½ mile run. I know that by losing this weight I will be able to gain control of my life and those things I have set as goals.