Hi I'm Christie I am 56 soon to be 57 I am married with a wonderful husband who was a bachelor of 52 years when we married 7 years ago I have 2 children from a previous marriage girl 36 boy 24 and 3 grandchildren which one of them my daughters son I adopted he was a premme 2 lbs 7 oz and lived in the hospital 4 months before he came home with me so I have always been Mom to him he is 15 now and my son has 2 children girl 6 boy 2 and he reccently divorced and that is when I ate myself into an additional 50lb weight gain which I am trying to come to grips with starting lc life i hate the word DIET so i call it modified eating (Ha) well I do have a treadmill with alot of dust on it but I believe I will dust it off and start to use it and will keep in touch with the rest of you gals(MY AGE) and see what happens look forward to talking with all of you thanks for starting this site and all have a blessed day

christieo