I live a very high stress life style, I do everything I can to relax but my stress has ultimately taken a toll on my health. I'm also not really active, I was born with a couple medical issues that make it hard for me to run without injuring myself of hyperventilating so I never was able to get out and be active enough to burn off anything, so I guess my metabolism just slowed down and I didn't make much muscle mass so I packed on the pounds.

Now I've learned exercises I can do without over-exerting myself, we have a pool and I swim an hour a day and I can take my dog out on walks for about half an hour, I figure in winter when I can't do those I can jump rope because that burns a lot of calories.