Thanks for sharing your life with us. I can relate to your story starting with the overweight mom, starting a diet on Monday. I really believe when I was about 20 my mom went on Atkins. So this was the diet I went on no sugar. So I feel it was Atkins that came into my life early thanks to my mom. She was never successful. Every time she started to loose weight my dad would get jealous and make her life miserable so she would eat. The weekly yo yo diet was my downfall. Always binging on the weekend and dieting all week. I am planning to walk in your shoes LCing and stay with it.
Take care
Loretta