A Little Bit (or a lot bit) About Me

My name is Lori, and I am a wife and a mom of two: one boy named Logan (15 months) and one girl named Alyssa (3 years). I am a stay at home momma, and will be homeschooling both of my children. Until then, I do childcare out of my home, and I very much enjoy it! Though it is a lot of work, it is also very rewarding as well. I am a very active member of my church and am so thankful to have the church family that I have! I enjoy scrapbooking and sewing and teaching children, of course!
When I first got the e-mail about the HCG Challenge, I actually just disregarded it because I thought I'd never get picked. Well I thought about it a little bit more and decided that it wouldn't hurt to just fill out the application and just see what would happen. I was SO excited when I got the e-mail saying that I had been picked. I also want to add that I am very thankful for this opportunity and I hope that my experiences are able to help others going through this journey. My biggest reason for wanting to do the HCG protocol is for my children. I want to be healthy and live a long time to see my kids grow up and to see my grandbabies grow up someday. But I don't want to just "see" it, I want to be IN it; I want to be a part of it...I want to be able to RUN around with them, to be active with them, and to teach them by example how to live a healthy, happy life. I have ALWAYS had a weight problem....growing up I was always the fat girl in school and I was always picked on and had trouble making friends. When I was about 19 years old I found a way to lose weight. I won't get into the details, as I am not proud of this, however I will say that it destroyed my life!....and all just to be thin. Granted, it made me thin, but I was the most unhappy, unhealthy person, and on a path leading to certain death. God's Grace saved me from that life, and I was blessed with a wonderful husband and my first little bundle of joy (Alyssa). Well as you can guess, being pregnant, I packed on the pounds real QUICK!!! I gained 80 pounds during my pregnany, and lost only what the baby weighed at delivery. I did lose a little more, but then 2 years later, I had another child, and gained 60 pounds. After he was born I kept putting on the weight, even while nursing, because I ate enough to feed an army. Then in March of 2007, my family was hit with devastating news. My sister (1 1/2 years younger than me) was found in a parking lot not breathing, no pulse. A police officer was able to "revive" her, and she was taken to a hospital. She was in a deep coma, and we were told that she would never live a normal life. Her brain had gone too long without oxygen and there was just no way that she'd ever "wake up" and be cognitive. My parents made a decision that NO parent should EVER have to be faced with, and decided to take her off of life support. My little sister passed away at 22 years old. I learned while my sister was in the coma, what had happened to her... she had bulimia, and the potassium levels in her body dropped enough to put her into cardiac arrest. My cousin has set up a website about My sister, April, and her story. Its is AprilsHouse4Bulimia.com. I would recommend sending anyone with this disease to this website....my family is hoping that her death helps saves other people with this disease. April is also another motivation to me in my journey of losing weight in a HEALTHY way, and all together living a healthier, longer life.
After my sister passed away, my daddy (yes, I said daddy, lol) called me up. He told me he was very worried about me, as I was 5 foot even and weighed 245 pounds. His biggest concern was that I would get diabetes, and lose a leg or something. He was affraid of losing another child, and his love and concern was enough to break me inside, and I told him I needed help. I knew I HAD to get my weight and health under control, I just didn't really know how to go about it. Well, he paid for two months of Nutri System, and I lost 30 pounds in that two months. After that, I just dieted on my own and lost weight very slowly, but was so miserable and eating next to nothing to lose the weight. I went from 245 pounds, down to 200 pounds when I saw Kevin Trudeau's infomercial about his book "The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want you to Know About". I thought "what do I have to lose?" I ordered the book, read it, then found a place to buy HCG online. I ordered from them and did a round....I went from 200 to 170 in that first round. Then I came across DrugDelivery.ca, and decided to order my next round from them, as they were SO much cheaper than the other site. I started my second round at 180 pounds (after the two gorge days) and ended the round at about 155 pounds. I am currently at around 160-165ish. So now I am awaiting my hcg and supplies from drugdelivery.ca for the hcg challenge, and I hope to start my next round at 160, probably 165ish after the two load days. My ultimate goal is to get down to 110 pounds, which would be perfect for me, as I am only 5 feet even. My thought is that if I get down to 110, then that will give me a little bit of a cusion to gain a little bit while my body weight stabilizes. I hope to stabilize at around 115-120, and then never have to fight this battle again, as the HCG will FIX the problem, not just treat it.
Here are my current pictures (taken tonight, by my hubby)......