Weight Loss Wednesday

Today for this Weight Loss Wednesday I am going to share my own story. One of my biggest goals is to be healthy as I get older. There are so many things that I have yet to accomplish and I want to be around to check them off my bucket list…

I’m that person who loves to work out so the exercise part has really never been an issue for me. My issue is eating right. I’m single with no children living in my home so I don’t really have to cook and to be quite honest, I don’t really like to cook. I have crazy hours and find myself wanting anything that is quick, fast and easy without having to turn on the stove top or the oven!!

Well unfortunately once I hit 42 the numbers on the scale started to climb and by the time I hit 46 I some how managed to put on an additional 20 pounds....YIKES!! My clothes not fitting and my body not behaving how I was use to began to take a toll on me and oh yeah.....did I mention that I was still exercising? Well I finally understood all the articles that I had read in the past that talked about exercise coupled with a balanced diet being the key to maintaining a healthy weight.

So I began the new journey around October of last year. I tried Seattle Sutton because that was something I had done before. I thought if I can just have the meals already prepared and portioned out for me how hard could it be???? Turned out not to work for me the second time around. So I tried Diet-To-Go, again fresh well balanced meals already prepared but I wasn’t seeing the results that I wanted. Finally, on April 19th of this year I joined Weight Watchers. It was convenient because meetings are held here onsite at my job and a coworker joined in January and I could see that she was losing weight. Well the first couple of months were challenging because I’m really not very good at keeping track of everything that I eat but as the months went by I got better at it. I’m happy to report that as of Monday, 10/4, I have lost 15.4 pounds!! It’s a slow but solid progression that I really am enjoying.

We all want to see quick, super fast results but the problem with that is 9 times out of 10 whatever you lose will come back with a vengeance!! It’s important that we all take the time to do what’s right for our own bodies, so this is not an ad for Weight Watchers. What I am advocating is finding the tools that work for you. Those tools will need to include a well balanced diet plus moving our bodies. It may take a few different tries to find what works but we can’t and shouldn't give up because we deserve to be healthy; we deserve to live.

Here’s to your health!!

Stiletto
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