I was never an emotional eater until my mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer seven years ago. Since her passing, I have turned to food for comfort and have been struggling with my weight ever since. Throw in two pregnancies and my weight has been up and down for the last seven years. Now that I'm done having children I would really like to get to my ideal weight and maintain it. I have given up the bad habit of daily Mountain Dew and started making some healthy changes. I get up every morning and am to the gym by 5:00 am. I refuse to let working full-time and being a wife and mother of four become an excuse not to work out and live a healthy lifestyle. I want to life a long life and be here to watch my grandchildren grow up. An opportunity my mother never had. Here's to breaking bad habits and starting healthy ones. I want to not just survive, I want to thrive.