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I've always been busy. Always had goals. Knew how to get where I wanted to go. And have been relatively successful getting there.

Somehow I think I lost myself along the way. Now, with my beautiful daughters on their own and making lives for themselves, I'm finding-out that others have all kinds of distorted views of who I am. I'm becoming aware that I have a very skewed view of myself, too.

Let's take a closer look at that view of myself. Somehow it took my youngest daughter forcing me to look in the mirror about two years ago to realize I was overweight. How a person can be over 200 lbs above their normal weight and not realize it...I don't know. But I honestly didn't see it until that day. Then it took me another few months to accept that the image of huge me was real. I've lost 85 lbs since that day. A big part of this journey in self-discovery involves me dealing with how did I gain all that weight in the first place, the process of loosing a large amount of weight and figuring-out how to never gain it back again.

This blog will be an attempt to find myself again. I need motivation, goals and a sense of purpose. Let's see if I can discover it via this medium.