Hello! My name is Deborah but my friends call me Deb! I am happily married with 3 sons & 3 daughters. My goal is to lose weight & get healthy. My plan: 1) healthy diet, 2) more exercise, 3) better sleep, and 4) reduced stress. Somebody said that. It's good!

In January 2013, I weighed 233 lbs and I was diagnosed with diabetes. I began watching my carbs and calories, eating a low fat diet, and avoiding sugar. I began to walk more, starting from 300 steps a day and slowly increased it to 5000 steps a day (2.5 miles). When I joined this website I weighed 202 lbs. What a great site, with such encouraging members! After losing 44 pounds, my A1C was 5 (normal) and my doctor told me that I can stop taking the diabetic pills and cut my cholesterol pills in half! I am so happy and I continue to eat healthy and exercise daily so that I will not have to go back on the Metformin.

Started: weigh 233 lbs ✔ Morbidly Obese, BMI 42.61, diabetic Jan 4, 2013
Struggle: weigh 225 lbs ✔ Stopped eating desserts, BMI 41.15
1st goal: weigh 218 lbs ✔ Severely Obese now, BMI 39.87
milestone: weigh 202 lbs ✔ Joined FatSecret, BMI 36.94
mini goal: weigh 194 lbs ✔ Stopped drinking diet soda, BMI 35.48
mini goal: weigh 188 lbs ✔ Obese now, BMI 34.38
Surprise: weigh 186 lbs ✔ Doctor stopped my diabetic pills! BMI 34.02
mini goal: weigh 175 lbs ✔ Weight before I had children, BMI 32.0
Surprise: weigh 171 lbs ✔ Doctor stopped my cholesterol pills! BMI 31.27
2nd goal: weigh 164 lbs ✔ Slightly Overweight now, BMI 29.99
mini goal: weigh 150 lbs ✔ Weight on my driver's license! BMI 27.43
mini goal: weigh 143 lbs ✔ A random number, BMI 26.15
The GOAL: weigh 136 lbs ✔ Normal or Healthy weight, BMI 24.87 on 10-28-14

Sorry that I can't post the link to the playlist. Go to youtube and put these words in the search box: I can make you thin-Paul McKenna