New Life Changes

I have decided enough is enough!!

What do I mean by this statement.... well I have been overweight and unhealthy for a very long time, it all started when I got married and moved out of state with my husband due to his military orders. I in high school was always fit, not healthy eating habits, but fit. I weightlifted in high school and also was a dance for over 12 years, my body was very fit to say the least.

When we moved I quit dancing, was no longer lifting weights 5 days a week and went to be a housewife, I discovered soaps on TV and kept eating the way I had always been eating. I started to gain weight but was not paying attention until one day I realized looking at photos I had gotten really big, I mean went from 150 pounds on my wedding day to a staggering 198 pounds, seemed like it was over night but I knew it wasn't, but then after a long time I got pregnant with our first daughter, that was 15 years ago. I had 7 pregnancies and 5 live births. I never worked on my weight, getting healthy or exercising. My body never went back to normal after the babies were born and kept the huge flap of stretched out skin on my lower tummy. I kept blaming the pregnancies on my weight as I reached a staggering 240 pounds.
My health declined and was approved for lap band surgery, that went good for a little bit and got from 240 down to 225 pounds, but then was stuck. The lap band started causing issues for me with being able to eat anything at all and always having food stuck. I sat around feeling sorry for my self and never doing anything about it. I tried fab diets, diet pills and quick fixes but never getting the results I wanted as I always gained the weight back when I stopped the diets.

About two weeks ago I was looking at a friends facebook posts and started following her on facebook. I went to high school with her and saw that she went from over 300 pounds to like 116 is about 14 months. I figured if she can do it then so can I, I mean I was sick and tired of being sick and tired, tired of clothing not fitting, sick of not being able to breathe when I bent over to tie my shoes, tired of not going swimming with my kids, tired of not being able to do activities with my kids due to my weight...... so that's where my journey has begun.

I contacted her and asked a bunch of questions, I knew it was NOT going to be easy or quick, I knew I was going to have mess ups but I decided to jump in and do it anyway. I really didn't have the money to pay for the whole program for the on demand workout videos and eating program I was going to start with but I knew I had to do it anyways.

I signed up for the beachbody 21 day fix with the on demand workouts and the shakeology.
I started without having a good source of the right foods in my house but did what I could to get my foot in the door and start doing something. My husband bought me the fitbit iconic I have been asking for as a gift the month before and now I make it my goal to see the fireworks on my fitbit when I hit goals on it each day.

I have slipped up a few times, missing a few workout days and hating it after the day was over, slipped up a few times and ate a chip off the kids plate or took a sneek sip of my husbands soda, but all in all I am headed down the good road.

Keep a watch out on my journey and how things are going for me! I will try to post everyday on how my day went and I will be totally honest of what goes on!

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