My name is Rhonda Taulbee and I live in Dayton, Ohio with my husband Bill and 4 boys ages 19, 14 and 11 year old twins. My weight struggle started early.

The first time I remember being aware of my weight was in junior high school. I was in gymnastics and thought I was pretty good. My coach though told me I could be good if I lost some weight.
I never really considered myself overweight until then. From that point on I felt heavy even though at the time I was not.

I started dieting my freshman year of high school. I had no idea how to diet so I just stopped eating very much. I thought if I was hungry and my stomach was growling that was a good thing. I didn’t lose weight so I started running a little. The first time I passed out was ironically enough in health class. I told the teacher I just had not been feeling well so they just sent me home. I continued this on and off all through high school until I had my first son at age 19. 

I was a young mother in an unhealthy relationship with no real direction in my life so I filled the voids with food. I became really overweight and my self esteem suffered. I did not want to go out with friends, and certainly did not want to go to school or get a job and let people see how unhealthy I had gotten. 

Two years later the relationship ended and I decided I needed to get myself together. I began to walk and tried to eat better and lost some weight. I then enrolled in school. I was finally happy and much healthier than I had been in a long time. A couple of years later I met my soul mate.
We had a few really happy months before my world began to fall apart around me.

My mother was diagnosed with fourth stage breast cancer and we were told she had very little time. About the same time my husband and I found out we were pregnant. Soon after my son was born my mother had a brain aneurysm that caused strokes. She was now a completely different person. I never lost the baby weight and gained more as I tried to deal with her illness as well as take care of a growing family.

A year later my father was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died within weeks. Again I gained more weight only to find out we were pregnant with twins.

My mother passed away from breast cancer shortly after the twins were born.

I now weighed over 252 pounds and was in a depression. I knew I could not be a great mother to these boys if I could not even drag myself out of bed. That is when my real life began. I set out to learn everything I could about losing weight. I have gained and lost hundreds of pounds over the course of the last few years.

This website is a combination of everything I have learned and I want to share it with you so you do not have to spend years unhealthy. I have lost 90 pounds and I am working on the last 10 pounds to finish my goal.