Admission is the first step...

I am Mrs. Fanny and I am a sugar addict.

I feel compelled to consume large quantities of sugary foods.

Why not stop? you may ask. If only it were that simple. I'm addicted, 100%. I cannot count the times I have removed sugary foods from my home, trying to eradicate them from my diet, only to find myself going out of my mind with cravings where I will end up going to the store to pick up my "fix" or improvising at home. My husband once caught me in our pantry eating a container of ready-made icing...

I'm sure there are people out there that do not believe that a person can be addicted to food, but it's real. There have been plenty of studies out there to prove that food addictions do, in fact, exist. Sure, a food addiction may not be similar to a cocaine addiction, but it is an addiction nonetheless and it does have repercussions. 

I'm 26-years-old. I'm 5'5 and I weigh 262 pounds. I am not healthy. I know this. I need to change. I have a husband and two small children who depend on me. If I'm not living a healthy lifestyle, how can I hope to impart healthy living to my children? Or worse yet, what if my lifestyle takes me out of the picture altogether?

My mother was an extremely obese woman. She died in September of 2011 from Hypertensive Cardiovascular Disease. It's a well-known fact that obesity is linked to heart problems. My mother was 44.

If I continue living the way I am, the way my mother did, what would be preventing me from following my mother's fate?

It ends here and now. This is my quest. I want to live healthier, BE healthier. I want to make sure my children have a mother who lives to a ripe, old age. I want to be a role model. I want to feel better, inside and out.

I am Mrs. Fanny and I am going to kick this addiction.