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We all have been through the dieting cycle. We all have been on the exercise kick, at some point in our lives.  I’m a prime example of a chronic dieter. I’ve bounced from low carb, to tracking, to WW point tracking, back to low carb and all through it again. A few prime examples:

In high school I did the Atkins diet, and lost 40lbs.  I felt great. But shortly after hitting 40 lost,  I hit a wall. I had a break down right before work because I was hungry, it was right after school so I didn’t have time to run home and I couldn’t fathom eating one more bunless burger. B and I had a long talk that night and I realized this wasn’t going to work.  So I told myself I would leave the Atkins plan, and ‘follow it on my own’.  I gained that weight back in no time.

I then did weight watchers, back when it was 1-2-3 success. I loved it. I loved the program, and I lived it, rather than dieted to meet the guidelines.  I lost 50lbs.  I got married, and took a break. When I came back to WW, it was a totally different program, and even though I was willing to give it my all, it wasn’t what it was, and didn’t work for me. I tried going to the meetings, and following the old plan, but they were always picking on me for doing it, so I stopped showing my tracker and getting advice. At that point, I figured if they weren’t helping, why go? So I did WW ‘on my own’.  Didn’t work, I need to go and I need to interact and be accountable.

After a year or two, I joined a local bootcamp that followed a modified South Beach.  The exercise was awesome, I loved the classes. The instructor/owner went crazy and started spending more time on making sure we were wearing white shirts and black pants on Wednesdays, and green on Thursdays, etc. She let the ‘bootcamp’ idea go to her head, and lost the integrity of the program entirely.  So I stopped going (not to mention it was $70/month for 3 classes a week).

Joined the Y, loved it at first, but after a while, the crowd there was not something I was comfortable with. So I stuck to going to the classes, like Zumba, but didn’t really work out there.  I wasn’t following much of a diet at this point. Needless to say, it didn’t do much for my weight loss.

Fast forward to today. Right now.  Why is this time for me, any different?

It’s different for a lot of reasons, but the two, most important, and why I KNOW I have it in me are this:

1. Fertility.  I have nothing wrong with me, medically, according to the tests. I’m convinced if I lost some weight, my body would support a healthy pregnancy.  All three of my prior pregnancies were when I weighed about 30lbs less than I do right now. So if I want to get my body in a healthy position to handle a second human being, I need to start now.
2. It’s not a diet. It’s a lifestyle change. I’ve made some great (in my opinion) changes over the last week. But it’s not a temporary thing. And I’m not just doing it until I fit into a smaller pair of jeans, or drop some inches. I’m here to add years on to my future, for my family, with or without children.

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