Okay, so let's talk about my starting weight

OH.MY.GOD. my starting weight was 228.6!!!!!  That is the fattest I have ever been.  My BMI was 34.76 - that's considered morbidly obese!  Are you f'ing kidding me?  How in the world did I let myself get this way?  Well, I'll tell you how, in exactly the order that it happened:

• Drinking red wine every single night.  Take my advice - DON'T DO THIS!  Wine has so many calories in it and if you are not burning the calories off, they quickly add up.
• Eating too much food!  My portion sizes were totally out of control and I was probably intaking at least 1000 more calories (between food and the wine) per day than I should have been.
• Eating the wrong kind of food.  I was really good at getting "food amnesia" and "fogetting" what I had eaten throughout the day.  I also started to just neglect the labels on food packages so I didn't have to see how much fat/carbs I was taking in.

The funny thing is that I didn't use to be fat.  Actually, I looked pretty damn good in 2005, but since September 2005 I had put on almost 70 pounds.  I could try to blame some of my weight on having a baby in January 2010, but that's not the truth...I didn't gain the weight because of the baby.  As a matter of fact, I only gained about 23 pounds when I was pregnant and I lost all of that when I was breastfeeding.  But after I stopped when he was seven months, I didn't adjust my caloric intake and I swear that I gained 15 pounds in two or three weeks.  Well, it probably was longer than that, but if felt like it happened that fast.