~Thank You For Visiting~
Welcome to LoveToLoseWeight.com! My name is Laura Hopkins and it's an honor to have you here! Weight loss is a venture just as this web site has been for me, so I truly appreciate you stopping by.
My interest with weight loss started many years ago. When I was a teenager my Mother had a diet counseling business. I had the privilege of working there observing the many women, old, young and very young struggle with their weight.
Everyday these women would come into my Mom’s diet center and get weighed leaving with diet and nutrition advice from my Mother. It was very fulfilling to see them lose weight and other times very sad to see them struggle with their weight and feeling their disappointment.
Being only 5’1 1/2” tall, it didn’t take much for a little bit of weight to look like a lot on me. During my adolescent years, weight wasn’t a huge problem for me but definitely something that I always had to watch. It was when I went away to college that I found that being short and packing on just a few pounds was not a good combination.
Going home at the holidays and hopping on the scale was a shocker. I was one of the very many now in denial about that ugly number on the scale. So maybe it wasn’t my jeans shrinking. Maybe it was the one too many ice cream sundaes I had for dinner along with the late night pizza.
Anyway, I made it through college and many years of learning that my weight is definitely something I needed to watch. I went on and off every diet imaginable, read every book out there and bought the latest and greatest body shaper gadget from the latest infomercial only to shove it under the bed with the rest of them.
My Mother no longer had her diet center, so my Dad had to get me and my two brothers a furniture store. Working seven days a week in the store, my priority was to help our family business. My weight and my personal life well, they came in a heavy second.
After being with my boyfriend of 14 years, we finally married. At the age of 40 we had our wonderful son. So as you see, I am one of those mothers that had a baby late in life. Now I know what it’s to like to be older with a slower metabolism and baby weight that doesn't seem to disappear.
Well, no more family business. Like I said this web site is my venture in life so every day I research the good, the bad and the ugly of weight loss, nutrition and weight loss. I was fortunate to find a company to help me learn and build by web site. For that I am grateful because for the first time in a long time I am able to work from home take care of my seven year old son also take care of me.
My goal is to give you the best information available out there for you or that person you love. It’s important for me to share this with you because I know what it’s like to be confused and overwhelmed with all the information out there. Know that you’re not alone and that there are many people that love and support you with your weight loss endeavor. You can do it and I am here to help in any way I can. Change your mind set and love to lose weight now.
