I live in a small town in Southern Ontario, Canada, I am a 51 year old mother of 2 beautiful young women (21 & 26) and a very proud Grandma to a 3 yr old Grandson and a 5 month old Grand daughter. My husband and I will be married 28 years on October 22nd. I have devoted the majority of my time rescuing and keeping many animals over the past 28 years. We presently have 4 cats (plus a few feral that we feed), 2 dogs and a bearded dragon that we rescued 4 years ago. I have been off work on disability for the past 2 years because of my shoulders.
In the past 2 years I have had 5 surgeries on them including having both of them replaced within the past year. My most recent surgery was on September 29 2016.
During my 2 years off I have managed to gain 25 extra pounds, which on my very short body is 25 more pounds then my body can handle considering I was over weight to begin with. This is the heaviest I have ever been in my entire life. I now weigh more then I ever did with both pregnancies.
Its been an uphill battle, physically and financially.

I can no longer afford to join a gymn or weight watchers. Recently a friend and fellow coworker had lost alot of weight over the past 9 months. She use to be the same size I am now and has since dropped 60 pounds. I asked her how, thinking she must have hired a trainer or was doing an expensive program. She told me all she has done is cut her calorie intake drastically. She started out at 1500 calories per day then decreased it to 1200. She doesn't work out, other then what she does at work ( we both work for the same automotive manufacturer). Finally!!!!! Some thing to give me hope. If she can do it then so can I. I can get rid of this heavy burden on my body. Since my pre-op weighin on Sept 27th I have lost 7.5 pounds. I am estatic. I am planning on joining T.O.P.S ( Taking pounds off sensibly) I need to be weighed in once a week by someone else, the accountability will make me stick to it.