I'm so glad I found yall!
I've been fat since I was born. My parents tried to help me by putting me on lots of diets including acupuncture, weight watchers meetings (which really sucked for a 12 year old girl in the 80s) and shots from quack drs. Mom did the best she could. Always with lots of love and kindness. Dad, not so much. Since I lost my mom I have really made some serious changes in my life. And I'm finally taking the time for me. Teaching me how to love myself. Something I've never been able to do
Food has always been fun and comfort for me. It was never nutrition and never something to help my body. It was only stuff that tasted good or felt comforting. With that lovely mindset plus battling severe depression since I was a teen and now losing my sweet Mama I find myself at the heaviest I have ever been.
With all that being said, I find myself having the most self confidence and willpower I have ever experienced in my young 53 years! I started what I'm calling my Health Discovery. I've been a vegetarian for over 30 years, but still morbidly obese. I do feel my not eating meat all these years has been my only saving grace. (My dad had horrible eating habits that gave him high bp, diabetes, cutting his life short with a stroke at 69.)
I've never felt so strong mentally before. I know without a doubt I am going to achieve my goal. As of today I've lost 27 pounds. I'm focusing on ten pounds at a time with weekly weigh ins to help keep me on track. It doesn't matter how long it takes, because I've decided to spend the rest of my days paying my body back for taking such good care of me all my life and treat it with the love and respect it and I deserve. 🍀