I'm Deanna (call me Dea) and I'm 33 years old. I have 2 sons, ages 9 and 6. I've lost significant amounts of weight in the past - and I've done it the "move more and eat healthy" way every time. Every gain I've had has been either from pregnancy or from an emotional bomb.
I'm an emotional eater - sad, mad, frustrated, anxious, you name it - I eat.
I gained back everything and then some about 4 years ago when I lost a kidney and fell into a depression. I'm so mad at myself. I was 15 pounds from my goal weight, I'd taken it off and I was enjoying the work outs, etc. I had a habit, you know? I had everything where it wasn't "hard" to do. And then I just let it all slip away.
I've been playing at losing ever since. At this point, I am just so sick of hurting - my weight is affecting my health problems adversely right now.
So I'm ready for a change, and I'm ready to claw my way back to feeling better.
and gained pretty much all of it back. I've realized something, in the past I've had to force myself away from sweets, but now I think of this lifestyle change as a life or death situation. I think how I can either sit on the sidelines and watch my boys (3 and 1) live out their lives with me in the background while I continue to satisfy my sweet tooth, or I can get up and move and heal my body with fresh foods. I truly believe that so much of diet and exercise failure is psychological, it's like any other addiction. Cigarettes are easier to quit than to change the way you eat forever, IMO anyways. I sure hope everything I said doesn't sound too cliche, and I really hope you get everything that you want out of your journey, best of luck!
