For As Long As I Can Remember
For as long as I can remember, I have had to fight a battle with my weight. I have had to learn the good habit of eating right and unlearn the bad habits of fasting and “fad” or “crash” diets to maintain my weight.
All through out school, my best friend and I were always in friendly competition. Even down to our weight. I remember so clearly that any time either of us got over 126 pounds, we would just not eat for a couple of days, lose about five pounds, and then go back to eating again. Some years later I realized that this was killing my metabolism, so I tried a different approach; the cabbage soup diet. Same results, but now, at least I am not starving my metabolism. After a couple of weeks of no soup diet, the five pounds and usually more always came back. Jenny Craig, Ultra 90, Physician’s Weight Loss; you name it, I have tried it. I would always lose some weight at first but eventually the pounds came back and then some. I knew that in order to actually restart my metabolism and to permanently maintain a healthy weight, I had to change my entire way of life.
After having my first and only child at the end of 2005, I was thirty-six years old and almost two hundred pounds at five feet two inches tall. I knew that I had to make a change to my eating habits in order to stay healthy enough to do the things with my child that a parent wants to do. I decided at that time to make a change. First of all, I stopped dieting. I went to my physician who gave me a food and exercise plan. I started on this plan in September 2006. It took a lot of patience for me to plan the meals, buy the food and do the exercise when I was used to eating what I wanted, when I wanted and not trying to do anything about the problem. I wanted a change and I set my goals to achieve this change. Every now and then, I will have a taste of cake icing or drink coffee with vanilla hazelnut creamer, but not as I used to without even being aware of my behavior. Just because I...
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