Weight loss journey...... yeah yeah yeah I know you heard it before but when you are 5'0 and you stand on the scale and it reads 237 lbs. YESSSSS......... TWO-HUNDRED-THIRTY-SEVEN !!!!!!
You either start to cry or just get angry, well I did a little bit of both. I cried because I was like" I'm officially MORBID OBESE"(bmi was 46.3 which yes puts me at morbid obese) and then I became angry because I was like Vanessa how did you let this happen!!!!! At the end of 2015 like everyone else I made a new years resolution(something I never used to do) and one of them ,yes I had a long list of resolutions was to Lose Weight . Like so many millions of people I was going to conqueror the battle of the bulge So I at the beginning of 2016 I made a promise to myself to start living my life and find what makes me happy. I told myself " Vanessa, if there is something you don't like about yourself Change It! If there is something you are wondering about Research it! Just Find what makes you YOU!" So the first thing I wanted to tackle was my weight. I was always saying I need to lose weight now its not that I wasn't trying it just wasn't working out. I wanted to learn how does the body lose fat. So I began to research how does the body works, what do the body need. I also had to come to the realization that my body is not like the average 42 year old woman. I had a hysterectomy 9 1/2 years ago which changed my body forever. When I was pregant with my son I had a c-section and had to have emergency hysterectomy done at the same time. I did not know how this NEW body was going to work. The things I used to do pre- hysterectomy to lose weight or to keep my weight under control was not working. I felt like I had no one to go to or talk to about it. Doctors were really no help they really just was a little shocked at how young I was to have had a hysterectomy and not to have been given any hormone medication, they wanted me to take pills. And for anyone who knows me knows I do not swallow pills whole and hate taking medication! So I went from being in my early thirties straight into MENOPAUSE in a blink of an eye! WOW!!! I know just to say it is mind-blowing, LOL!! So I knew that the hysterectomy had to have a lot to do with my weight gain but what am I to do? And yes I have lost a couple of pounds with different weight loss programs but they where not substainable and really didn't teach me on how to become healthy. Because with some of the weight loss programs you can eat junk and lose weight when all your doing is counting points or eliminating a whole particular food group. Anyway I digress/LOL! So I was looking for something that I was going to be able to maintain, something that will be like second nature to me. I know it will be hard but there has to be something to this.
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