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Journaling:
Starting point: June 3rd 2012: 219 pounds, size 16 pants, 1x tops, but not comfortable. We had a biggest loser style contest at work in 2011 and I watched a lot of co-workers lose weight and put it right back on. A lot of them were using a website called myfitnesspal.com (MFP) but for some reason I did not want to count calories, no way. That just “wasn't me”. In June of 2011, I was diagnosed with plantar
fasciitis, a condition that made it painful to walk. The physical therapist told me weight loss would help, but I brushed it off. In April of 2012 I learned that the iron levels in my blood were low (for the second time) and I would have to get treatments (again) to put iron directly in my blood. One of the nurses who did the
treatments told me she had lost 90 pounds using MFP and it got me thinking about what my goals might be. On Sunday June 3rd, I created a profile on MFP and logged my food for the day. I used the
default settings the website gave me and off I went. My goal was to lose 89 pounds, with the
mantra “130 by 30” as motivation. The first week was really difficult. I had no idea what I had been eating or how much. But I decided that I wanted to give it a chance, so I kept logging. I figured out that it was more fun to eat a lot of a good food rather than a little bit of a junk food. Not too long after I started, I realized it wasn't a diet. I was changing the way I looked at food. I was in charge of what went in my mouth and I logged all of it, good and bad. I felt like a better version of myself. I felt empowered and making good choices was easier. Also, my Labradoodle and I were excelling in our dog sports, which was a big reward for me. It took almost 18 months to meet my goal, but I woke up on the morning of my 30th birthday, December 2013, and saw that I had met my goal.
If it was easy, everyone would do it. If it was hard, I wouldn't have done it.
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