In two days it will be the one year anniversary that I started on this journey of weight loss. And guess what I found out, it doesn't get easier, it gets harder to keep losing. After losing continuously for the last couple of months I had my first gain week and I freaked out! I know what I did to gain, and knew what I was doing while I was doing it, but I did it anyway. It was all in the line of my thoughts... I wish I could just eat like a normal person.
Truth is, I am not "normal," I am extraordinary in both good and bad ways. I have never had a "normal person" metabolism, nor been a "normal person" weight at any point in my life. Even child birth I was over 10 pounds coming out of my momma's C-section (yep I was too big to come out the "normal" way).
Fortunately I figured out a way that even I could lose weight despite my abnormalities (LOL). I'm happy to report, that although the last two weeks have been rocky and not as productive as the last two months, I am
66 pounds
less than I was this time a year ago.
66 pounds down = 4 dress sizes smaller = quite a few bra sizes down (none-ya as to how many) = rings falling off my fingers = longer looks in the mirror while winking at myself
I am still quite a distance from the goal. I haven't quite decided what the goal is, but I feel like I'll know when I get there. I have already hit the original goal and surpassed it back in October.
Natalie, how did you do it?
Well it's a long story, but to put it short first I feared for my life when the obesity was getting so morbid it was destroying other areas of my health, then I got passionate about my health, then I went to the fitness camp for two weeks and learned how to eat right, how to find healthy food in a super market, ideas to cook healthy, and that my body could take a lot more exercise in a day then I originally thought so 3-5 days a week should be a piece of cake. I took all white carbohydrates out of my diet, and most sources of sugar as well and replaced it with Truvia (the natural stevia sweetener). I started playing flag football, dancing Zumba, tried Tennis (that failed), but just tried to mix it up so I stayed moving. That worked for about the first 45 pounds then I plateaued when I started working a very sedentary job.
When the exercise is minimized, the diet has to be adjusted to continue weight loss. I talked to a friend on facebook about how they lost 60-70 pounds in a quick time and they introduced me to Medifast, take shape for life www.tsfl.com. I got a free coach and invested in their meal replacement products which I ate 5 times a day every 2.5-3 hours along with a 6th "lean and green" meal of my choice and I dropped another 20 pounds in a month or month and a half.
I could continue to lose weight on Medifast if I would stick to it, but I've recently come to a slow. So now I'm looking at which way I will turn now, all the while knowing that whichever way it is, it will continue to be a forward motion, because I'm never going back to where I used to be. That's the plan.
Truth is, I am not "normal," I am extraordinary in both good and bad ways. I have never had a "normal person" metabolism, nor been a "normal person" weight at any point in my life. Even child birth I was over 10 pounds coming out of my momma's C-section (yep I was too big to come out the "normal" way).
Fortunately I figured out a way that even I could lose weight despite my abnormalities (LOL). I'm happy to report, that although the last two weeks have been rocky and not as productive as the last two months, I am
66 pounds
less than I was this time a year ago.
66 pounds down = 4 dress sizes smaller = quite a few bra sizes down (none-ya as to how many) = rings falling off my fingers = longer looks in the mirror while winking at myself
I am still quite a distance from the goal. I haven't quite decided what the goal is, but I feel like I'll know when I get there. I have already hit the original goal and surpassed it back in October.
Natalie, how did you do it?
Well it's a long story, but to put it short first I feared for my life when the obesity was getting so morbid it was destroying other areas of my health, then I got passionate about my health, then I went to the fitness camp for two weeks and learned how to eat right, how to find healthy food in a super market, ideas to cook healthy, and that my body could take a lot more exercise in a day then I originally thought so 3-5 days a week should be a piece of cake. I took all white carbohydrates out of my diet, and most sources of sugar as well and replaced it with Truvia (the natural stevia sweetener). I started playing flag football, dancing Zumba, tried Tennis (that failed), but just tried to mix it up so I stayed moving. That worked for about the first 45 pounds then I plateaued when I started working a very sedentary job.
When the exercise is minimized, the diet has to be adjusted to continue weight loss. I talked to a friend on facebook about how they lost 60-70 pounds in a quick time and they introduced me to Medifast, take shape for life www.tsfl.com. I got a free coach and invested in their meal replacement products which I ate 5 times a day every 2.5-3 hours along with a 6th "lean and green" meal of my choice and I dropped another 20 pounds in a month or month and a half.
I could continue to lose weight on Medifast if I would stick to it, but I've recently come to a slow. So now I'm looking at which way I will turn now, all the while knowing that whichever way it is, it will continue to be a forward motion, because I'm never going back to where I used to be. That's the plan.
