Hi everyone,
My name is Heather and I am 28 years old. About four years ago I was on this site and found a lot of great support while I was on my journey of weight loss. During that time I managed to really change the way I ate and fell in love with exercising and had lost 50 lbs.
I am not sure how it happened but the pounds slowly started to come back on and now four years later I've gained back that 50lbs and gained 12 more
I can tell that the weight is taking a big toll on my body. I am only 28 and I have arthritis, gerd, and not to mention my hormones are all out of wack. Which doesn't help the progress of starting a family with my husband.
I've tried starting back several times but this time feels different. When I talk to my husband about starting again he doesn't even believe I will eve try. It's like he thinks I'll fail before I even have begun. That was a really painful thing to feel. Like I've lost before I even began the race.
I am ready to get back into changing my life style. I was looking at this picture on Pinterest about how loosing weight effects your body. It really kind of woke me up about how I want to feel. I want to be able to go a whole day without arthritis pain. I want to be able to go ona cruise and see the shore excursions and not worry if I am too heavy to participate or will I be able to walk that far or swim that long. I want more things in life then being this over weight slow me down.
My starting weight is 312 and I'll post a before picture soon. I would love to find a weight loss buddy or a few people I can talk to about this. It helped me a lot the first time around. I am even thinking of maybe some challenges I could start to get me motivated.
Thanks for reading!!!