Here we are!! It took 7 weeks!! Not worth it!!!

Just to re-cap my daughter was married at the end of May and before the wedding I had hit my lowest weight 152. Unfortunately reducing my exercise to mostly just walking and not watching what I was eating I regained 10 pounds. I was shocked when I stepped on the scale. The good part of it was it re-lit the fire for me to get back on track. So after 6 weeks of eating better and exercising I was able to get the 10 pounds back off. Week 7 was a maintain week and that is okay. I just keep thinking 7 weeks to get back where I was, it is a hard pill to swallow. May 28th I weighed my lowest and now here I am August 11th and I am just now getting back to that weight. So I lost. So really I lost like 10 weeks of moving on to a new level to going backwards and then moving back to the same place.

You know as I reflect I realize this was a time of growth for me. A time for me to realize I am not at a place in life where I can back down on exercise, I am not in a place where I can allow my trigger foods in my house, I am not in a place where I can stop growing personally, I am not in a place where I can allow my self to indulge. Will I ever hit this place I really am beginning to wonder. I seem to get off track and roll uncontrollably downhill like small snowball building in size as rolls down the hill. That is me I seem to gain speed and build back bad habits way too quickly.

The question is how do I fix this? That is what I need to figure out. I am refocused now but I need to find what is going to keep me this way. What is going to keep me from snowballing again?

I am not much of a writer but I write this blog to show my struggles and this helps me to be accountable as I know this will be read by others.

Oh I am extremely happy that my husband has joined my journey to get healthy and he has lost 20 pounds since the 1st of the year. 10 before the wedding and 10 over the last 7 weeks. To be an encouragement for him is such a great thing for me. He has been with me through this whole journey. I thank God for him everyday.

Before I close this post let me just encourage you, if you fall off your journey get back on as quickly as you can, do not let your mishaps discourage you and keep you away from your goal.We can do this!! We can do this together!!!