I actually had to take a deep breath before bending down to tie my shoes! Then later that night, chasing my twins though the park, I realized that I was constantly winded and my kids could just keep going. I could not believe that I never really recognized how difficult it really was for me. In the whirlwind of getting my kids ready to go, I bent down to tie my shoes. I first realized it when I decided to take my kids to the park one day. That is about the time I started to realize just how out of shape I was. I always thought of myself as a somewhat slender person, until my family started telling me about what they were doing to lose weight and get healthy. That might not seem like much for a 6-foot-tall person, but it really is. At the beginning of 2011 I weighed 220 pounds.
