Firstly, I am a blogging slacker. I love it and I find it so beautiful to be able to type what I feel and what I have accomplished and how I have done it. I even got an email from the company that owns the product I am using to lose this weight saying they ran across my blog ( HOW COOL!) and I told myself right then...YOU UPDATE YOUR BLOG RIGHT NOW YOUNG LADY! So, a couple days later here goes!
This is my 7th week using New Direction products through a program at Mercy Hospital here in town. In the past 6 weeks I have lost 24 lbs. 24 lbs!!!! This is still so surreal to me! A little over a month and now I have lost what always seemed to be an impossible amount of weight months ago. I just wish I had started sooner!
The New Direction team here in Northwest Arkansas rocks. My Dr. the dietitian and all the people that come in and weigh in each week are so wonderful! I look forward to seeing these folks and weighing in each week. There is something to be said about accountability to other people for certain. I also want to be strong and give the other people in the program tips and watch their transformations as much as I want to see mine!
If you have had a chance to read my health story you would have found scary health details that really explain WHY I am doing this. This is not a vanity issue as I love all people from the inside out and felt beautiful even the way I was before I started this journey, however it wasn't healthy for me to weigh that much. My body was revolting. So, after 24 lbs loss I have been able to reduce my blood pressure medication by half ( 200 mg a day to 100 mg). I have also started having a cycle again. <--HUGE PLUS considering my husband and I want to have children sometime in the next year or two. Who knows what other improvements are coming! I have 58 more lbs to go to my first goal weight. I may decide to lose 10 to 20 more when I get to my first goal weight, but I will cross that bridge when I get there.
So how do I do it..live on soups, puddings, and shakes? It's easy because you have to figure out what works for you. I splurge with pickles, olives, and sugar free snow cones A LOT! Don't get me wrong I love the shakes and I make my soup into the biscuits but I love me snow cones and I am looking forward to another one in a about an hr :). I am now so excited about my progress and forward movement that I no longer care about the Pizza I want to eat or the massive Banana Split that is calling my name. I know that I already have a renewed mindset about food and the where its place is in my life. It will not be a controlling force and I will not give in to things when I can choose healthier options. As my dr. told me this week..."I've had a lot of cakes in my life...they are never THAT good". I have to agree and feel that a lot of things we litter our bodies with fall into that category. Here is to you and here is to me living a better lifestyle!!!
XOXO and send me well wishes!
Britt
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