Facebook memories reminded me today that I had some great health achievements a year ago today. At that point, I had lost 45 lbs through diet, my A1C went from pre-diabetic range to healthy. My liver indicators went back to normal, and my inflammation marker started to drop to a more normal range.
I had not realized that I have been in this quest to be healthy since May 2022. My brain keeps thinking it has only been a year that I've lost the weight, but reality is that it has been a year and almost 8 months since I started this journey.
At my lowest weight this past year, I was down 55 lbs. This is insane in my mind. But it was a struggle to maintain that weight. Today I am down 40 lbs. Thanksgiving/and lets just say all of December through New Years knocked me off track. I was drinking socially again, eating carbs, sugar and just all things yummy. While I felt great at the moment of indulging, I felt horrible the next day and in general. My body does not feel happy when I am indulging like that.
I have started back to being more strict and eating clean again. For most of my weight loss/get healthy journey I had the scary mindset of, if I do not eat healthy and take care of myself, I am slowly killing myself. This scared the crap out of me, and kept me on track. Overall, I felt so much better, no more back pain, less joint pain, less migraines and overall my stomach was happier. But once you start back down that slippery slope of its just a bagel, or a cookie, or a cocktail or three, it is really hard to come back up.
Supposedly it takes three weeks to break the sugar addiction. I'm on that path now, and it sucks. My kids eat donuts and muffins for breakfast (no judgment please), and there are still cookies left over from New Years Eve. So tempting and such a struggle since I work from home, by myself. Who would know if I ate it? I would. And I need to remember that I am better than the sugar.
I plan to use this blog as part of strategy to keep myself honest. Along with all the fun coffee, no drama mama, dog mom posts, I will be checking in to make sure I am still on track to be healthier and not go back to where I was. Sure I love going from a size 16 to an 8. But my health is more important that my jean size.
So cheers to me for still being down 40lbs a year and a half into my journey. And a journey is what it is. There is no end, no time when I won't have to stay the course. When the mindset is health, not being skinny, I think it helps keep you on task and focused on the goal since it is so much scary than your jeans not fitting.
Here are some pics from before and after when I was down 55lbs at that point.
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