Make losing weight my purpose in life

I am 53 years old and sitting here in front of this computer on a Saturday afternoon wondering what my purpose is.  I don't feel that I have had a real purpose for several years since my husband passed away two years ago.  Don't get me wrong, I am not depressed, and do have hobbies and people who love me and whom I love but for a daily purpose, I am lacking.  I share my day with a 15 year old Beagle "Bob" and two cats, Muffin and Snowball.  My daughter also has moved back in with me along with her Trucker husband who is only home a couple times a month.  It just made sense for her to move in because she will be starting a nursing program in the fall.  Even though she is here, I hardly see her.  She has her own life after all, as I did at that age. 

I also have three other children, all of whom live out of state.  Two of those are married sons and they each have a little girl, Evangeline and Eloise, my granddaughters.  I visit with them when I can and they also visit me in NH.  You have been introduced to the rest of my family.  They are all very educated, interesting and full of energy and adventurous as I was at their ages (as it should be). 

My health is not good even though I don't suffer at all.  I have renal failure and will be on dialysis at some point and require a kidney transplant.  This should be a motivator to lose weight and I have been told that I need to lose a certain amount of weight to be considered for a transplant so why can't I. 

This blog will be a motivator, hopefully to get my life in order and I am going to make losing weight my purpose in life for now.   I weigh a whopping 240 pounds and need to work on getting 20 off for the preliminary testing for transplant.   So here is my challenge, losing weight.  Hopefuly writing in this blog will be a handy tool for myself to be accountable for myself and get this weight off.