[DonnaB]

I agree with Mr Gordon....don't do it for your family. If you feel the need to lose weight, do it for YOU!

For me, my motivation comes in the form of constant pain--from fibromyalgia (not necessarily a comorbidity of my obesity, but the doctor says tremendous weight loss will ease some of the pain), osteoarthritis in my hip and back. And everytime I have to stick my finger to check my blood sugar, I am reminded of why I am doing this.

It's not easy and I find I am constantly fighting myself internally. Measuring, weighing and journaling every bite of food while trying to work a full time day job (especially this time of year during tax season) and help my husband run his small business in my "spare" time is a nightmare. Making time to stretch, go to water aerobics and take short walks is a pain in my relatively still large posterior.

But when I get the rest of the pre-Op weight off and come out of my surgery, on the road to being a thinner, and pain-free Donna, I will know that all the discipline and hard work will be worth it. As the saying goes, anything worth having is worth working for. And the silver lining to all this work? I am learning discipline.