Watchers and failed. The program was great and it worked BUT I did not want to have to keep track of points all day and what I ate. And so I didn't. By the time nighttime came around, I couldn't even remember what I had for breakfast. A good friend of mine convinced me to join the gym with her. She had lost 100lbs on her own and so I figured if she could do it so could I. I loved the gym! It gave me that social interaction that I needed and I gained some great friends. Well, I continued to go to the gym up until I was 8 months pregnant with my fourth child. After she was born I struggle SO much! I wanted to go to the gym but had no time let alone the motivation to go. I just used my kids as an excuse not to go. I had also lost all my baby weight so I figured EVENTUALLY I could lose the rest. Slowly I began to sink into a dark hole I that I was struggling to get out of. Every day I would wake up with the thought "today I am going to do better. I am going to eat better and start exercising." That never happened. I had zero energy! All I wanted to do was sleep. So I did. I would get the older kids off to school and at the time, my husband worked swings, so as soon as he would wake up, I would go back to bed for 3 hours until he had to leave for work. I would then get up to take care of the two children we had at home. I would feed them lunch and get them down for their afternoon naps and then...yes I would take a nap.
I was talking to a friend one day and expressing my frustration. She mentioned that after having a baby some women experience problems with their thyroid so I should get it checked. I thought "yes! that must be it." If it was my thyroid and I got on medication I would lose all the weight and things would be good again. Right? Ha! I did go in and have my thyroid checked and everything else that could check. My thyroid was ok but I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and I was pre-diabetic. The doctor sat me down and went over the test results with me and was pretty frank. He told me that I was overweight and needed to lose weight. He told me that he wanted me to lose 10lbs. in the next three months. He was encouraging and told me I could do it. 10 lbs. in 3 months was doable. He told me he wanted me to come back in and we would run the tests again. Well, I went home with a new determination to lose 10lbs. That only lasted a couple days. That was July of 2016.
May 2017 rolled around and I still had not lost the 10lbs I needed to. In fact, I had actually gained 10+ lbs. At the time I had a friend who suddenly started losing weight. She had lost a lot of weight in a short amount of time. I thought it was probably just another fad diet or something. She told me a little bit about the program she was doing and explained that she got to eat brownies every night and that she loved the food. I was very intrigued but also figured it wouldn't work for me because it was probably too expensive or I wouldn't like the food. I watched her for a few months and one day she posted her before and after photo on Facebook. WOW! She looked amazing! She had lost over 40lbs.! I was sold. I asked her to call me and explain the program. She explained that it was a health and wellness program and that it focused on overall health not just weight loss.
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