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"Change of lifestyle" that's what my sister calls a diet, and she's right. Over the last 9 years I have let things get in the way of keeping myself healthy. I could point fingers and lay blame for my weight but when it comes down to it, I am responsible for me. I have allowed myself to gain 100 lbs more than I should. Let me tell you it's awful to write/type that here where it is so public but I need to be honest. If I'm not honest this "change of lifestyle" wont ever work. So I am on a journey to lose that 100 pounds. This is a scary journey but also an exciting one. I want and need to be here for my son. If I keep allowing food to control me then I will be a fat blob who can't do anything with their child. I don't want to be that, so I'm changing. I'm taking the bull by the horns and doing it!!! :) So what am I doing you ask, well it's really quite simple. I'm cutting my calories. I have a Biggest Loser cookbook (which is ok...

Well lately I've had some new stuff to blog about so I'm going to blog. :) First stuff first, NO I'm not pregnant! :) Had to get that out of the way. My son has an allergic reaction to peanuts, especially peanut butter. While Andy and I have found this out the hard way in the past (he breaks out in blisters when it comes into contact with him) we found out today it's something to be very careful about. We are lucky that Maddux's outbreaks haven't been severe, yet. Today he came into contact, some how, we aren't 100% sure, with some sort of peanut product and rubbed his eye. His eye became very swollen and had small blisters around it, his typical reaction. So I called the Pediatrican to just make sure he was ok and that I could give him Benedryll. They are calling us in on Thursday for an epi pen consultation. We will get a pen and be trained in it. They said that peanut allergies have a way of getting bad very fast and it's important for him to have one...