I'm SMOKIN!!! Or at least gonna be!

No I don't mean I'm smokin cigarettes. Carla and I have decided to make a change. For Real this time(Hand on shoulder SYTYCD fans!) We have joined a website called my-calorie-counter.com. It's where we can check each other's calories for the day. It's like myspace where you can add friends and look at their profiles. It's pretty neat. We have vowed that this time next year we will be ON FIRE! I've made alot of realizations this year. As time goes by I'm getting more and more eager to make a change and more ready to do it too. I joined Lifetime Fitness last October and just with exercise I've been able to maintain my weight...mostly. I have to really change my eating habits for it to make a real difference. I am diabetic so this is something that HAS to be done to save my life in the long run. I went and saw a diabetic practitioner yesterday(I know go me!). She was very imformative and sweet. She told me that there was a study with 3 groups. The first group took no medicine but changed eating habits and exercised majorly. Like they had trainers and nutrionists and made a life change. The second group took metformin(which I'm on) and exercised moderately. The third group was told they needed to eat healthier and exercise but thats it. Well by the end of the study the 3rd group improved their health by 8%, the 2nd group by about 15-25%(around there bc I don't exactly remember the exact #), and the 1st group who made a life changing commitment with NO meds improved by over 50%!!! Now who's gonna tell me that's not amazing? I see so many people who have experienced the effects of diabetes and honestly I don't want to go through that. My mom has gone through some MINOR effects caused by diabetes compared to the MAJOR effects and you'd think living to see that I'd have changed a long time ago but those of you who know me well I'm a pretty stubborn person. I want to do things in my own time. Well sometimes I can't do that. It's takin me a long time to be ready and I feel that I am now. I can't do this the easy way with surgery as much as I really want to so I'm gonna have to do this the good ol' fashioned hardass way. A regular form of diet and exercise. So to those of you out there reading this I need your support. I need your tough love! By this time next year Carla and I are going to look like this! (Sorry I'm not very good at cropping can someone show me? lol)