Why hello...I'm fat.

I'm trying to do something about it though! I promise!

I use to feel that there were two kind of skinny people in the world: naturally skinny and works-hard-for-it skinny. I know that's silly. I know that's actually ridiculous. I also felt like there were two kinds of fat people: lazy fat people and unjustly fat people. I felt like I was in the later. I was going to be fat no matter what I did.

I was always an overachiever...in the 95%ile as a child. Well above it as a teenager.

In college, I went back and forth on my size. Starting school at 190-ending my freshman year at 220. Again, freshman 15 sounded like a challenge and I gave it my 200%! Got up to 230 my sophomore year. Worked with the school dietitian to get down to 215. Stayed there for a good month then shot up to 225 for a while. By my senior year, I was at 240. My second senior year I weighed 249.8(I WAS NOT 250!!!!) and decided to change my life. I started weight watchers, got a personal trainer, worked my arse off and got down to 188. Best feeling of my life but couldn't get below that level! Then I gave up and ballooned up to 220 quickly. In 2008, I was staying steady at 235. Enter SkinnyHusband.

FatWife and SkinnyHusband 10/2008(the night that started it all!)

Ahhhhh SkinnyHusband. He was so stinking cute! My friends warned me not to hit on him the moment we met and I listened. But I flirted with him for a year. I even lost a few pounds staying around that 230's level.

In February of 2009, we started dating. He was about 235lbs and I was too! We matched up quite well. We kept on dating and I gained a little-getting up to that dreaded 250. He gained too though! I just gained more...

I was diagnosed with Polycystyic Ovaries and given Impanon (BAD IDEA) and ballooned up to 300 in a year. By 2012, when I went to the doctor I was up to 315.

During that time, dreamy SkinnyHusband, who also got up to 250+ pounds, proposed, lost weight, and married me. Of course, he didn't stop losing once we got married. He started exercising more, continued eating right, and got down to under 160. Oh...and he has abs now. He's gorgeous.

FatWife and SkinnyHusband March 2013

The wife...is still fat and clunky. I get looks now. People in stores see us together and look at him and back at me in utter disbelief.  I watch his habits and know he didn't do it overnight and it wasn't super easy.

Now it's my turn. I might not ever get down to "Skinny" levels but FatWife can become HealthyWife.