The workout grind that is.
I have always been pretty hefty. I have never been dainty or petite Even at my smallest weight I was tall and broad. In high school and college the weight started creeping on. 5 lbs here.....10 lbs a year later. When I got married I weighed about 190 lbs. I am almost 5' 10". I wasn't obese by any sense but I was teetering on really being overweight. Then a funny thing happened my first year of marriage. I was having kidney problems and my husband didn't want me working for a bit. So I stayed at home for a few months. And I sank into a depression. And I somehow managed to gain 30 lbs in a few months. In the next ten years and 3 children later I found myself in a very scary place. Sadly my weight was almost 300 lbs. The highest I ever saw on my scale was 267. But I am sure it probably went a good 10 lbs higher.
I started having some scary symptoms My blood pressure was sky high. My husband had just recovered from a heart attack and he kept nagging me to get on some medication. So I went to the Dr. Funny she never said hey why don't you lose weight. But I left the office with some medicine and a plan in my mind. By the time I went back I wanted to have lost some weight. I started watching what I ate. I had lost weight off and on during the past decade. The last time I was successful it was interrupted by baby number 3. Through diet alone I had lost 12 lbs. Then one of the best things happened to me. I had been a stay at home mom for 3 years. I landed a job overnights at a hospital Not glamorous work. I was part of the cleaning crew.
But with that job I started becoming the most active I have ever been. I was on my feet and literally running from one end of the hospital to the next. I started to lose more weight. There is nothing more motivating for me then to actually see lbs dropping off. I started really watching what I ate. I always allowed for cheat days. My main focus was cutting back on my portion sizes. If we ordered pizza I only ate two slices. After a while my body got used to eating only 2 slices and I wasn't hungry for more. I walked as much as I could at work. I ended up transferring to a job on campus. I made every step count there as well. I also had a 10 minute to and from my parking garage. Every step counted for me. The weight came off. It was slow going. I probably only lost a few lbs a month. But I had hit a big milestone 50 lbs gone. Sadly my blood pressure never improved. Apparently that was more a genetic thing vs a weight thing. Then we packed up and moved to Texas. I once again became a stay at home mom. My husband, bless his man heart, even voiced out a loud the fear I was having. "I bet you gain all that weight back since you aren't working anymore ", he said.
So here we are 9 months later. And in fact I have kept that weight off. But now it is time for my second goal. I have at least another 50 to lose. I just got an elliptical/bike to use at home. When my husband is at work I always put on my music and try to be as active as I can by cleaning and well dancing around since nobody can see me. But I have decided it time to buckle down again. So who knows. Maybe in a year I will have hit another 50 lbs. I am certainly going to try.
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