The Power of Influence
By Now .... almost Everyone around me knows what I'm trying to accomplish ... and I can see others beginning to take their health seriously also. My son has started to lose weight. It's amazing, I looked at him a couple of weeks ago, and I noticed whenever my weight is down, his is down also ... and when I blow up, well, he follows. He's 25, but he's still my biological child, and I guess I helped to set his eating pattern, so somewhere down on the inside, he's eating what Mommy eats ... And since I know I have this kind of influence, Mommy will be eating Carrots, and all kinds of healthy stuff.
My husband has to really work at his weight, and I've finally convinced him that 230 is NOT a good number, even for a man. His Mother passed a couple of years ago from Hearth Disease. She wasn't huge, but she weighed 150 and carried it around the middle, and she was a diabetic. So, I told him, he has a greater chance of diagnosis than me, because no one in my family has it, or maybe that we know of ... As Blacks, I think we're too use to carry around extra weight. I know even when I was smaller, I was comfortable carrying around 15 more pounds than I should have. So, he's sold on getting to a lower number than he's use to and so am I!!
Now, I want to be within my weight range. I want to be healthy, and I want to be tight and toned ...
I took a look at some old photo's and I think I was even bigger than I am now! atleast 10 pounds. I didn't weigh myself then .. Thank God, I probably would have fainted! I remember putting deoderant between my rolls! I had to work extra hard at my hygeine. The price you pay for food!
My co-workers are starting to eat better, too. We're all Salespeople and Office workers ... so you know ... someone brought biscuits, someone else had cookies, etc .. and don't mention the Lunches ... Like I said before, I would even treat!
Oh my God. to think of all the ignorant eating I did, and I'm a smart person. 
The men, do I have to say it? ... they're weight is dropping like bags of dirt. They're running and losing beer bellies ... and the women, oh, we're 2 pounds a week, sometimes, but we're determined to keep going. I know, I know it's the difference in hormone's!!
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Oh well, enough for now ... got to get ready for tomorrow. wanna rise early and get my walk in.