About Trula & Supple Mama

Hello there, I'm Trula Breckenridge and this is my fitness & weight loss blog. I'm a 36 year old woman who lives in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. I'm a mother of 3 children, ages 19, 13, and 10, and like many mothers I struggled with losing weight after having children. In 2004 I wrote a book titled Supple Mama: Fitness, Nutrition, and Healthy Body Image for Moms, with an emphasis on mothers getting a healthy body image. I re-released it last year with additional info on nutrition including healthy portion sizes.

To my chagrin a whole lot of my own advice and research went out the window last year as I grappled with some serious family issues and other personal challenges. My weight skyrocketed to over 200 pounds! At my heaviest I was 210 pounds. I am only 5 feet 6 inches in height. On January 2nd, 2007 I began my fitness challenge, and I haven't looked back. Since then I have lost 10 24 37 42 53 70 pounds, gained some back and am now working on losing the last 25 pounds for good. I am surely going to reach my goal of 130 pounds. The photos are all me from a period between December 2006 to present, so you get to see me shrink fro 210 pounds to my goal weight of 130 pounds.

People had been telling me I should start a weight loss blog but I wanted it to be more than a vehicle to sell my book. I have the book's store page linked, sure, but all the articles and blog posts I've written here are free to help you with your own weight loss journey. If you don't have time to read a long post, bookmark it and come back to it. You can also print up any post, just click the # symbol that's beneath every post to get it to open in it's own page. I did not start this blog until I felt ready and able to share my experience with overeating and exercise issue in a compassionate manner.

I am on a mission with this blog to help other people free themselves from food addiction, aversion to exercise, and other issues that keep us physically overweight and emotionally sick inside. It is ok to want to be fit and healthy. If you want to change your outlook about being overweight and take responsibility for your weight and health issues caused by excess fat, this blog is for you! The Supple Mama blog will help you change not only your body but your very life.

Jump in with your comments any time but it's ok to just read, too. You can also get updates to this blog by RSS feed and by email subscription, just click on the selection in the left column, right at the top. I add my own exercise and food goals almost daily. Yes, I have a lot to share with you! I would love to hear from you and get your feedback on this blog, so drop me a line sometime. My email is trubreck at gmail dot com. Also, if you have a weight loss and/or fitness blog let me know so I can link it to Supple Mama and please link me also. Thanks for coming by and keep working towards your fitness goals! You can do it! I have so much confidence in you.