I'm ready! Finally, I've made some choices to make this extreme makeover journey work. For years, I have lost weight (hundreds of pounds!) and then gained it right back. I have found that I had to do several things at once to really make this thing happen. I always concentrated on the food plan of weight loss before, but not on the exercise that it takes to get really fit. I have now made that commitment to do everything it takes to get healthy. I want to share this journey in a blog to help make me accountable and because so many friends have prayed for me to get to this point and I want to share this journey with all of them. I know that I will not be perfect in this journey---life is not meant to be lived "perfectly." But I do promise that I will do my best and that I will get back up if I fall down and keep going. I've prayed about this for a long time and I realize that blogging about this extreme makeover journey really lays everything out there for all to see. That's a major step for me! I can only do this through God's help. I want to give Him the glory for any success I achieve. I pray that He will use me and my story later in some way to help other people.