Welcome to Truly Love Thyself. I certainly never thought I would be
writing a blog to help encourage others to help make difficult changes in life
when it comes to food and health but I’ve been asked by many what my “secret”
is and I really do want to help people who just don’t know where to begin.
I’ve been on my quest for good health for about 2.5 years. I wanted to make changes for years but it seemed like it was never the right time for one reason or another. Finally after the birth of my youngest child I decided that I was finally going to get fit. It was no easy task. Hard to admit but I was morbidly obese. I never felt that way, I always was really active and never had any weight-related health issues but I knew I was on a path headed for total destruction.
Thankfully my parents raised me to be a confident grown up with great self-esteem; I never really worried that much about my image and have always been SO loved by my dear friends and family. I had been overweight my entire life. I actually got pretty close to being fit while I was in college but after years of blissful marriage, the pounds I had worked so hard to lose the first time around crept back on when I wasn’t paying attention. I didn’t notice that 10lbs a year I was gaining and pretty soon 12 years had flown by and I couldn’t believe what I’d done to myself. I knew my body deserved better, and my husband & kids deserved better. I had to take responsibility and once and for all make a change.
I knew it wouldn’t be easy, but I didn’t think it would take as long as it has. It wasn’t for lack of trying, I just had to figure out what worked for me. One of the main things I’ve learned in this whole experience, and quite frankly still struggle with is patience. If you need to make a significant change like I have and want to do it the right way, it takes time and that’s all there is to it. I was SO tempted in the beginning to look at weight-loss surgery options, but I knew they wouldn’t fix the problem, they only treat the symptom. I knew I needed to learn more about nutrition and the kind of foods my body would respond well to. If you think about it, the main thing the surgery does is make your stomach smaller so you consume less calories. I figured, why can’t I just start there? I knew enough to know that my stomach would shrink if I just fed it a smaller quantity of food instead of continuing to eat until I was extremely full with pretty much every meal. I also knew enough about the surgery that it is REALLY easy to gain back the weight because all you have to do is continue your habit of overindulgent eating and stretch out your surgically smaller stomach right back to where it was, which would eventually bring your weight right back to where you started plus who knows how much more.
I needed to fix the problem and thankfully I did. So far, I’ve lost 120lbs without any fancy products, weight-loss clubs, pills, surgeries or anything like that. If I can do this, so can you! I reeeeeally struggled about whether or not I should share a "before" picture of the old me. I'm not even that same person and was hard to find a picture that didn't really bum me out. I don't like remembering what I did to myself, but I do know that when I was struggling and at my heaviest, it helped for me to see the progress of others. That's the reason I shared my "Before & In Progress" picture below. There are really very few pictures of me that exist because I always strategically made sure I was the one with the camera. That was yet another one of my inspirations for change. I didn't want my kids to look back at pictures when they're sharing with their Children and Grandchildren and not have a clue what I looked like. ;)
In the pages & posts to come, I will share numerous sites with free information that inspired me and gave me the tools to make the change. If you do need to make a change, don’t be overwhelmed. You really can do this. It’s time to truly love yourself. :)
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Thank you!!!
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