Lost 100+ but still working
Hi,
I am a 33 year old wife and mother of three children 9, 7 1/2, and 6. I have been fully disabled of rover 5 years now. I have a chronic pain disease that couldn't get much worse than it has been.
About 9 months ago I went off all my narcotic medications to try a new medication. The others weren't doing anything for me just putting me into another world. I had been keeping a case of 3Musketeers in my bed side table. Yes, I would eat them up quickly. I coped with them. I am not particularly picky when it comes to food.
When I made the medication changes I just began eating better. We always have relatively healthy food for our meals so that wasn't a big problem. It came down to eating a lot less and eating more veggies than meat and always having my water with me. I didn't conciously say I was going to diet. I guess I new I had too and just started doing it.
I have been very successful in losing the weight, but I still have more to go. I am rally trying to do this and be a role model for my oldest daughter. She is just like me. She took on th ebig sister role when her brother was born and then took more on after her sister was born and I got sick. She like the rest of our family loves food and uses it to cope. In fact, just tonight I was talking to her on the phone. She is away visiting her grandparents. She didn't wnat to go because she doesn't quite get along with them. She told me she didn't feel well all day and admitted that she was eating too much.
With everything that she has been through in her short nine years I have to help her with our food problems. She loves fresh vegetables and knows how to eat right. It is just finding that something else for when she feels the need to eat. It isn't neccessarily a want that drives her but more a need. She did a wonderful program this past spring called Girls on the Run. It is a 3 month program for self esteem, team work, nutrition, and finally running. She was very successful in rinning the 5K at the end of the program. She absolutely loved running. Now I just have to get her to the track to run and be there to support her even if I am riding beside her.
I know that I can make my goal, my biggest fear is not being able to help my Hope Angel. I figure if we do it together we both will be more successful and it will give her extra time with me.
It is just a major comfort knowing that there are others out there going through similar situations that can help and support me in this journey.
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to 3FC and another congratulations on how far you have come already!
