My Weight Loss Journey Part II

I got married three weeks after I graduated from college.  In a period of about a month I got moved, got married, went on a honeymoon, and started a new job.  I loved being married and finally being finished with school, but it was an odd place to be because my friends were on their fifth years of college and didn't have the responsibilities of a full time job, house, and husband to take care of.  It was a lonely time also because I worked in a small office with one other girl and we didn't have any couple friends we hung out with.  I was also homesick for my hometown, even though I hadn't lived there in four years something about the transition to being a married woman made me want to be near my family.  I remember our first married Christmas I made my wonderful husband trek to the top of a mountain to cut down a tree because I had always done that with my parents.  I remember having a breakdown after we decorated our tree, because it was time to put the star on and my daddy had done that every Christmas for my 22 years of life.  I also look back on pictures of that time and see that I was the biggest I had ever been up to that point.  I tried to ignore it because I wore elastic waist scrub pants to work and changed in to sweatpants when I got home.  We didn't have a lot of money at this time, but we were still going out to eat probably 5-6 times a week.  In my mind I think that made me feel not so lonely, to go out to a restaurant and be surrounded by happy families and groups of friends.

After Christmas of that year I started Weight Watchers again and was very successful.  I lost around 25 lbs and during the process I changed jobs to a new position at the university I attended.  I worked with an awesome group of girls who were all pretty much in the same stage in life that I was, and they became like my family.  I was so happy and loving life during that time, and managed to keep my weight off for a while.  I look back on that time now as one of the happiest periods of my life.  My husband and I were financially in a much better situation due to changes in our jobs, we could come and go as we pleased with only our dog to worry about, and we had bought the cutest little townhouse close to both of our jobs.  The girls I worked with cooked a lot so we exchanged recipes and I also fell in love with the Food Network and Rachael Ray, so I cooked much more of the food we ate.  Things were rolling along great and I was in a really happy place.  After almost three years of this, we found out that my husband's boss was leaving and he had a chance for advancement.  Things didn't work out and the new boss they hired saw my husband as a threat, making his job unbearable.  In an Anaheim bar during his industry's trade show, he met his current boss and was offered a position near our hometown.  By this time, I didn't want to leave where we were because we were making a life for ourselves there, but it was only a matter of time before my husband was unemployed in a tough job market.