Hello Friends! I thought I would try my hand at blogging again. I remember how much better I felt whenever I was stressed, or worried, or disappointed in my weight loss progress, after sharing in this little space. A space all my own. Sometimes it's hard to carve out time to do something like this, because it is just for me. As women, we tend to take care of everyone else first, to make sure everyone else is content and doing what they want, and we kind of forget about ourselves. We tend to be very unselfish. As a Mom to 3 adult children, who haven't needed me daily for years, you would think that that I had this part all figured out, but I don't. It's hard to change the way you've always been. I now have tons of time to do anything I want to do.....things just for me. It's about time I did them. My brother, who is just a year and 6 days older than I, passed away the beginning of this month. It felt different loosing my brother, than it did losing my dad. Your s...
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I've been up and down and all over the scale my whole adult life. I have come to realize that it is not the plan that I am on that isn't working, it's my head that needed tweaking. I've always been completely honest here, and I am not ashamed of anything that has happened in my life....It has all been a learning experience. My highest weight was 252. That was...I wanna say 10 years ago maybe? My sister and I joined Weight Watchers and I lost 50 pounds in just under a year. I didn't do it the correct way. I restricted. I juggled. I deprived myself. I could gain 7 pounds in a week and shed it in 3 days. That is not healthy. That is not sustainable. After I left Weight Watchers later that following year, I gained around 25 pounds back fairly quickly. I didn't learn my lesson when I joined Weight Watchers again a few years later. I gained and lost the same 10 pounds in the year that I was going to meetings....