My awesome progress

I just wanted to touch base with all of my Fanatic's this evening and also give an update as promised about my endeared weight loss results. Now I am going to be very clear with all of you about why I gained and how I am losing. Mainly, the reason for my weight gain is just a lot of stress. I have been under a lot of stress for the past year and a half.

I used to be one of the people that would say that you couldn't gain weight because of stress and that saying so was just an excuse and a cop out. Well, let me be the first to apologize to everyone out there, I was definitely wrong. I have always experienced some stress, but none of which that was presented in my path last year. I will have to admit to that I got so fed up that I just quit. I quit eating right, exercising and trying to distress myself. I would come home from work dealing with stress and just get stressed out even more. I forgot that the exercise or even the tea's that I was accustomed to drinking helped me.

My life seemed to go from bad to worst, which aided in me constantly getting sick. Whenever I caught the flu I would always self medicate, because I have no health insurance. I ended up gaining a lot of weight, which led me to getting more and more tired. I even found myself getting depressed. Towards the beginning of June the flu basically kicked my tail and I had no choice but to go see my doctor since nothing over the counter seemed to work. This is when I really got my wake up call. I had no choice but to get on the scale that I had turned my back on. I was weighing a whopping 207 pounds. Can you believe that, I was turning in to a sumo wrestler. It made me sick to see the scale that day. From that day forth I decided that I would take it one day at a time and do whatever I could to move for at lease 30 minutes every day.

I did not change my diet right away, but I kept up the work out routine 5 - 7 days a week. Then because I was starting to feel better physically I started to lose a lot of the bad cravings that I had developed along with my weight gain. I mostly began to crave healthier foods, but I would also treat myself once in a long while to a small treat. I do not want to completely deprive myself, because I do not have any intention of gaining this weight back unless I have no choice, like if I get pregnant again in the future.

I am happy to announce that I have lost 5 inches off of my waist giving me a total of over 19 inches lost all over my entire body. I am very proud and excited that I am starting to slim down, but my goal is not to become a skeleton. I accept my body as is knowing that I have had a child already and that it cannot be the way that it was when I was 16. I will be happy with myself no matter what, because I have built back up my self confidence and that is a very important thing. Wish me luck all and good night.