Originally Posted by katvert
If it is not to late i would like to join in on this also. I love the quilting board and how friendly everyone is.
I have so many reasons to lose the weight and am re-learning how to do it. I am 33 years old - who used to live a very-very active lifestyle (sports, firefighting, etc) An ankle injury (12 years ago) slowed me way down and 5 years ago I had my son and the hormones during pregnancy caused a huge flair up of an auto-immune arthritic condition that I was diagnosed with, finally, two years ago. All that packed on the pounds and now I have just over 100 pounds to lose.
Just today I joined Weight Watchers to try to learn how to do it. I also am in physical therapy - I finally had my ankle fixed this summer, and I take the water arthritis class at the YMCA. So hopefully with proper eating habits I can get back to a healthy weight.
Everyone on the board has been so supportive as I learn to quilt that I am hoping that support will also help with the weight loss.
OH goodness that is just like me except it's my knee! Good luck with WW (it can work wonders) and the water therapy. I did it for 2 months until they closed our pool for resurfacing, hopefully it will be open again next month. It is such a chatch 22 that we can't excerise because of the weight but we dii to excerise because of the weight! I am doing as much as I can and trying to add more when I can.