jaymec
My name is Jayme, I am 48 years old. I am a single mother of 4. I have 2 children in college and 2 in high school. On my 48th birthday this last august, I made a commitment to myself that the next 48 years would be about me. This may sound selfish, oh well since I was 14 years old I have helping to take care of children, either my brother and sister, then my brother in law and sister in law and then my own 4. But for the last 15 years I have been taking care of my 4 alone. Not always easy, and one of my reasons for being overweight.I have been fighting with weight for most of my life. As a child I believe I was to big, I have never saw myself as normal size. I am 5’11’’ tall, and have been this tall since I was 13. Growing up in East Los Angeles, helps me think this way since all my friends were about 5’ to 5’5”. Even the boys were shorter then I. I grew not to like being tall, and even more did not like that at 14 I wore a size 16 while my friends were in a 5. Today I would love to me in a 16. I have been successful in weight lost, in 1988 after my 3rd child I joined weight watchers, I lost 117 lbs, and for the 1st time in my life thought of myself as pretty. This did not make my x-husband happy. I after keeping the weight off for 2 years; put it all back on with my 4th child. Then when my 4th child turned 1 I went though a divorce. It was very hard to put me 1st when I had 4 small children at home. In 2002 I again was successful with weight watchers down 94 lbs, only again to put it back on. Today I am happy, I like me, I like doing for me. I love to go to the gym and work so hard it hurts the next day. I just finished a 6 month class at Kaiser, lost 48 lbs during that time, and now looking forward to surgery. This time with my commitment to me I know I will be successful for the rest of my life. As with each time before I am doing this for me, but I know I WILL be successful. I think of me different now. I was just told by a trainer at the gym that I have the perfect body shape. Me that girl from East Los Angeles that never thought I was normal size now being told I have a perfect body shape. So I cant wait to see what the perfect body shape will look life when I reach my goal of 175.
