originally posted on Facebook May 19, 2021
Ok. So I decided I need to start addressing one of my biggest issues in my life. I am going to start doing my own personal accountability when it comes to weight loss. I feel I need to have it out in the open and stop hiding in the background. It is a part of who I am, and I think it is time to start talking about and owning the struggles. Please keep in mind that this is a type of disempowering my problems. By doing this I hope to start growing and overcoming them. I started this life change on April 19, 2021.
For those who do not know I have had weight struggles since I was a teen. I have done many programs with success and then inevitable gains. The YoYo dieting is very familiar to me. I signed up for Bariatric surgery last February and thought it might be a solution to my problems. The more I went through the program, the more I learned that it was at most a temporary fix. There was no phycological help to help understand our issues and not a lot of support. Just a regiment of how to eat and accept the new normal. After being on the wait list or a surgery date for a few months, I dropped out of the program in December 2020, after some long and hard reflection about myself.
I remained in limbo till the beginning of April not sure what to do moving forward. I was talking with a close friend about a program he was following called intermittent fasting. He recommended a book written about it by Dr. Jason Fung. I became curious so I bought 2 of his books. The Obiesity Code, and the Guide to Intermittent Fasting. After reading The Obisety Code, it hit on a lot of things I felt were personally wrong with my body. I always felt it was an internal issue hormonaly, and not so much how I was eating, as my weight gain started in my early teens. All diets worked temporarily but always failed in the end. There had to be something I was missing. I always had the most success with a LCHF diet (Low carb high fat). I knew I had a strong intolerance to dairy since birth and that had to be cut out of my life. I also learned that another piece of my problem was due to insulin resistance. Control your insulin levels at a low level by fasting and have your body naturally re regulate its functions and start to correct itself.
So now that you have some background info about me and my struggle, it is time to start my monthly check in and share my journey with my friends and family. It is May 19, 2021. 1 month into my lifestyle change, and I am down 38.6 pounds. I feel good. I feel happier. I feel more me.
Thank you for reading to this point. Thank you for being a part of my life. Thank you for letting me help myself by sharing with you all.
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