I thought I would share a picture of myself from March 2006 (one year before I had Jacob). I weighed 261 the day I delivered Emily and a little less than 2 years later, I weighed 196. Then I got pregnant with Jacob and gained it all back. But I did set the above picture as my wallpaper on my work computer so I could stay motivated.
This week’s post is late. I have had a very rough week. On Monday, January 16th, my work computer broke. I finally got it repaired and back up and running on Wednesday, January 25th. In the mean time, I had to blog on my slow laptop that doesn’t even have a battery. It was stressful. But because of that event, I discovered something about myself that I did not know.
I am not an emotional eater like I once thought. I thought that when I got upset, like crying my eyes out upset, I would eat. But I realized that I don’t. I actually get stressed out and let things get to me and then I start eating to work thru the stress. So I think the key to losing the weight once and for all is going to be to find a cure to my stress. To not let the little things get me worked up. If you have tips on how you avoid stress and/or how you work thru stress, I would love to hear them.
Because of the stress, I cheated on my diet. Now I didn’t cheat terribly, but I cheated and I need to stop that. I get so frustrated with myself, but I think now that I have this stress trigger figured out, I can work thru it.
I finally broke down and looked at the scale. I have lost a total of 12 pounds in 3 weeks. My biggest hurdle is going to be getting below 230 pounds. I currently weigh 236 and I haven’t seen less than 230 since 2006. Keep your fingers crossed for me. I am going to go after that number with a vengeance this week.
How are you doing with your weight loss efforts? It doesn’t matter if you are doing Medifast or not, I would love to hear from you!
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Medifast is not cheap. I know that. But being overweight isn’t cheap either. I spent a lot of time debating on if this was something that I wanted to share on my blog. But it all comes down to the fact that I want to get rid of this weight so that I can truly enjoy Disney. And if it is by the support of my amazing readers that I do it once and for all, then I need that. I am not encouraging you to try Medifast. I am not saying that Medifast is the only or the best way to lose weight. I am just looking for support from my wonderful friends. If you don’t want to support me, please don’t comment. Just skip over the post. As Thumper said, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothin’ at all.” If you don’t want to offer your support or you are looking for support yourself, feel free to share.
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*FTC Disclosure: Medifast provides their products for my personal use for free. I am not paid or compensated in any other way for mentioning their products (although I want to shout from the rooftops about my success which you know the results are ‘not typical’). All thoughts and opinions here on my blog are 100% mine. I am very inspired to be given this amazing opportunity, and I want to share my success with all my readers friends. Thank you for reading my blog. It’s because of your tremendous support and encouragement that I was given this opportunity. And that means more to me than words can say.
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