My Journey

So I started changing the way I eat and exercise, I reached out to a few people that will add to my weigh-tloss. So far I've lost a total of 54lbs. I began again i February 2018. My desire is to be 280lbs. I can honestly say my energy level has gone up and I'm able to do more. Its a process of course.

What To Expect With Weightloss

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Once you figured out why you gained weight and why you have a bad relationship with food. On to the actual diet. So far i'm down 58lbs. I will go into more depth of what I do if requested. I started off at 535lbs. Now its not my first rodeo at 535lbs. I lost 252lb before. However I was on depo shot for 4 years and I gained a significant amount of weight, then I got pregnant with my son gained more. Then I started hating the way I looked. I was broke and not thinking if I lost the weight first then I can work on the excess skin later. I was so emotional about it, that I started gaining the weight back thinking I would look like my pre-weight. It made it worse. I can go into depth another time. What i'm suggesting is to try not to focus on the skin. Lose the weight, by doing anaerobic cardio and weight training. Also your diet will help you increase the skin reduction. Again let me know if want me to go more in depth about it. It's doing wonders for my excess skin. The best advice I can give you is to save your money. Get a separate bank account just to save up for the skin removal surgery, because its hard to get the insurance companies to approve the surgery. There is one way that I know, if you all want me to write some suggestion I will. How I know, I have a been a nurse case manager for the last 6 years. But what I can tell you documentation from the physician is majority of the time the reason the requests are denied. Good luck

How Do You Know It's Time To Lose Weight??

Most of the people in this current time, deal with issues of weight, but how do you when its time for to get in-shape? Everyone around you will let you know about your weight, your body will let you know and most importantly your own heart will let you know it's time to lose the weight.  

Daily people will remind you that you are overweight. Especially family and strangers.The only person that matters when its time is You! You are the person that should initiate weight-loss. And your reasons that you are wanting to lose the weight should be taken to heart. 

Write down your reasons you want to get healthy. Like was it for health problems, for clothing, to get a better career, to be liked, to find love or to live longer. Whatever is motivating you, it should be a healthy reason. Not, for instance, to get people to like you. 

You have to ask yourself these questions and plan it out and I would suggest seek counseling to help you find the root of your weight gain. What made you lose control in  the first beginning, that made you gain the weight. As you can see this picture is of me. I'm at this point in my life. I desire to lose the weight, however recently I realized I was attempting to lose weight for all the wrong reasons, which is why I went back to old habits. No one gets over 300, 4400, 500lbs or more just because they want to. Majority of the time it's an out of control cry because of some tragic event. 

I would advise you first to research why you started eating, what type of eater are you, meaning do you binge eat or emotionally eat? Why are you so emotional? What does food do for you that no other thing/person can do to satisfy you? Are you losing weight for you only? What are your goals for weight loss? Your goal should never be to be happy. Weight loss will not make you happy. It opens up more opportunities and makes you more less noticeable. You have to fall in love with who you are now versus when you lose weight. You are setting yourself up for failure if you don't. You have to prepare yourself emotionally. 

However the moment you get a handle on your emotions, forgave the ones that hurt you, tackled why you have an unhealthy relationship with food, and are loving yourself as you are, then you are ready to be successful with weight-loss. Forget what others thinks and don't get too caught up in the amount of weight someone else lost in their 1st week or in 1 year. You have focus on what your body can do. You are your own competition.