Now onto the reason for beginning my own journey. I am and have been most of my life an average size person. I feel I wasn't ever really considerably overweight, but as I have gotten older it has been adding on and is considerably harder to take off. I have tried many different diets, plans and have had some success, but not long lasting. I had the most success with Weight Watchers back in the early 2000's. I had a friend going with me which really helped and kept me on track and accountable. I lost 40 lbs and kept it off for a few years. But little by little old habits crept back in when I moved away from that supportive friend and started packing on the pounds again. I also had success with HCG injections. Although much riskier, I did lose weight quickly and "reset" my weight to something close to my goal. I felt better in my clothes and loved the accolades from my friends. I lost 30 pounds with that just last year but since then I have let about 17lbs of that sneak back on. I feel bad, defeated, like I wasted all that time and all those shots and eating only 500 calories a day was for nothing. So now what!?!
Well, several things have come to light that have spurred me on in the right direction. First, my husband has liver disease and his doctor says he must lose weight and de-tox his diet or he may not be around for our daughters to see them married. Another epiphany happened while I was enjoying the day on the beach with my family and watching the girls play. I looked at myself and said, "What kind of example am I setting for them?" Do I want them to be to eat junk and not exercise? Do I want them to struggle with the lose-gain-lose-gain cycle I have been on so many years? Or do I want them to be active, healthy, energetic girls and women? The answer is obvious. I think all parents want their children to be better and do better than they have done. How will they do better unless I show them how to do better? If they see my sitting on the computer or watching TV all the time and eating poorly, then it is highly likely they will do the same thing. I must make some serious changes to help them get on the right path early in life and start to make healthy choices early in life and make it a lifelong habit.
Another thing that has helped me get in the right frame of mind to make eating choices is a book my husband ordered and has been reading. It is called "The Blood Sugar Solution" by Dr. Mark Hyman. He teaches that food is information and we must get the right information to our cells so they can work properly. We are killing ourselves with white sugar and processed food. It is a great book and has a 6 week plan to de-tox and start making lifetime choices for eating better and healing yourself. This really has opened my eyes and helped me prepare to feed myself and my family better for life. I feel like a bad mommy for not learning about this before. It makes me cringe to think of all the bad stuff I have put into my little girls. I have started developing bad habits for them and they are already 4. Yikes!! I know it is not to late for all of us.
SO... the Journey to a healthy me US has begun.
Look what I ordererd!
It was on our door step when we came home from our trip to TN and MS. I opened it right away and started reading. I was tired from our trip, but I decided that I would at least do the Fit test and see how I did on that. So when the little blonde sweetie woke me at 7 this morning, I got up and put on workout clothes. I am going to officially start on Monday, but I will do something each day to ease into these insane workouts! I know I can do it! Writing this blog will be a way to help keep me motivated and accountable. I don't know if anyone will read it, but I still need to do it for myself.
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