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So here's how I got here:

Tall thin frame - 127 pounds in high school.

Gained the freshman 10, married, divorced, re-married, mis-carried my first, had my second (same due date as first - very freaky), loved the year off. Hated my summer bathing suit pictures (2004/2005). Back to work, ended up with pneumonia and lost 10 pounds. Thought...wow that was a quick ten pounds and let myself eat my way to 144 pounds by Jan 2006.

144 not bad for 5foot nine3/4 inches to be exact. But I looked anorexic on top and pear-shaped on the butt.

Concertmaster of my orchestra did Weight Watchers with his wife and lost 35 pounds between Jan 1 and March break of 2006. Impressive. Until he explained the points system to me. Can you imagine a diet where you just have to stop at 29 points, no matter when you reached them during the day?? (He had chosen 29 points) - nuts!!! especially if you were going to spend your 29 points on flavoured rice crips cakes or something like that.

I pondered this for a few months. Then when I was shopping for new pants, I was horrified that I was going to have to pay real money for size 14 pants that day. I literally ran home and hopped on the internet. It was impulse-searching, but I was going to find something that made sense. VERY LUCKILY I found "Burn the fat, Feed the muscle", by Tom Venuto. The whole ebook makes lots of sense (in more detail than the average bear might want). I started with his list of 12 foods you should never eat, promising myself to read the whole book as soon as summer vacation started. I also read the first chapter before summer break started. THAT CHAPTER CHANGED MY LIFE!!!! Chapter 1 has nothing to do with eating or training. It is totally devoted to the science of goal setting, how to do it and stick with it. Still to this day, I do not do anything -training wise- without a goal card. I had a goal card before I had good-bye pictures for P90X.

So in the summer of 2006 I started to eat totally differently.
I met my first goal in September. To fit into my cute mini-skirt-suit in time for meet-the-teacher night. The cute mini I had worn to my first teaching job interview in the spring of 1991 - size 8. By spring of 2007 I was buying new capris, size 3, to replace my size 11s from the year before.

In the winter of 2007, I discovered that what I was doing was called "Eating Clean". (I happened upon the Oxygen Mag winter 2007 collector's issue called "Clean Eating" and scooped it off the stand that instant.) I was thrilled to have a name for the lifestyle change that I had made. I bought Tosca's Clean Eating Book the moment it came out in Canada. I continue to buy Oxygen magazine and I love it. (OK, I have issues with the fact that Tosca can have her hubby Robert Kennedy publish anything she wants, and I have issues with her using the word "overweight" as a noun all the way through a book - even her editor allowed it) but I still love it.

I have maintained my high-school weight of 127 pounds for a year now. (You have to understand that I have an extremely thin frame. Very thin bones in fact. My wrist circumference is smaller than my 11-yr-old step-daughter's.)

Then in April of 2007, working on my 3rd goal card, I am flicking to the weather channel after my workout and pass by a P90X infomercial.
I am in awe!! I immediately put it on my wish list for Mother's day, then my 40th birthday, then Christmas, and finally I get it for Christmas in a belated had-to-return-my-gift-myself-so-what-do-I-want-instead kind of way.

And here I am.
Loving it, bringing it, loving it, bringing it and getting inspired by all you guys!