I am 27, married, and hoping to start a family soon. The doc said for every 5 pounds I have on me, the less chance of carrying a pregnancy. On top of that, knowing that pregnancy will put on extra weight as it is, I am trying to get to a healthy weight now while enforcing good habits before hand. We will see how it goes.

I am finding this "change in lifestyle" (I refuse to call it dieting) extremely difficult though. I have several medical conditions that tend to wreck havoc on my emotions and I am terrible about emotional eating. Crappy day at work? Hand me the Cheetos! But no more. And it is hard, but all I can do is keep trying right?

I changed my diet which changed my start weight on the graph (annoying much?), so here are the starts and goals:

Start weight: 173
Mini goal 1: 163 (10 pounds)
Mini goal 2: 156 (10%)
Mini goal 3: 143 (30 pounds)
Mini goal 4: 139 (20%)
Goal weight: 133 (40 pounds)