Hello Everyone,
Today I would like to welcome you to the beginning of my weight loss journey. To start off I would like to introduce myself and give you a little background about me.
My name is Jessica I am a 26 year old mother of three beautiful girls. Over the last 7 years I have really struggled with my weight and weight loss, something that before I had children I was fortunate enough to never have an issue with.
Growing up I was always the skinny girl. Something that other kids and people in general may consider a blessing, and I do looking back, but at the time is was just as much a curse for me as I assume being heaver would have been. On almost daily occasions I was asked if I ever ate (which I did and I ate a lot usually more than my father), I was taunted and teased for being 'anorexic' and constantly asked if I had 'bulimia'. Which again fortunately I had neither. Honestly it was a really hard place to be as a kid in an age where bullying was normal and most adults told you to 'brush it off' or 'become more thick skinned'. I can't say that this wasn't a good life lesson for me quite the opposite actually. Eventually I did learn to not care so much about what people were saying about me, it really did prepare me for the struggles I would have later in life with the opposite end of the spectrum.
As a teenager I started to fill out a little more and found my way into Pageants. This too gave me invaluable information that I would later use in life.
Fast forward to 2006 I had my first amazing daughter. After I had her people continually told me that it was fine and I would lose the weight in no time. What I didn't realize was that I wasn't going to lose anything sitting around with my baby girl doing nothing. Sure we took walks and I eventually went back to my sales job, but it wasn't as if I was exercising or eating healthy. In all reality I really had no clue what either of those things meant. Sure I played sports growing up and through out high school, but I never did anything besides that and I certainly couldn't fathom counting every calorie before it went into my mouth.
Two and a half more years passed and I realized that although I was within the target weight for my age and height (I was normal) I still wasn't comfortable with my weight so finally I decided to do something about it.
I joined a one hour once a week workout program that is only in the Denver-Metro area. It was amazing (and extremely expensive). I lost 17 lbs and 1 1/2 pant sizes in two months. I was so happy I was feeling good about myself again and fitting into clothes that made me look nice. After two months of hard work I started feeling ill and when I went into the Doctor I found out I was pregnant with our second daughter.
Now I am sure some of you are thinking...um hello? Weren't you working so hard to lose the weight why would you risk getting pregnant and having to reboot? Well the answer to that question is that although it was an amazing blessing I was taking precautions. As many other events in my life it is obvious to me that someone else had a bigger plan for me and having my amazing second child at that moment in time was it!
The only downside to the pregnancy was how sick I was. I was in and out of the ER many times due to my new found a-fib in my heart. It was horrible and I vowed that after the hard pregnancy that I wouldn't have another child, so I switched birth controls and after having my second daughter we had a happy family of four. Even if I was even heavier then where I had been after baby number 1.
Two months later my husband was offered an amazing job in Utah where his family resides and I knew this opportunity would mean that I could be a stay at home mom. So we jumped on it and moved our family across the state to our new home in less than a week. It was a crazy time.
Once we started getting settled I once again became very sick I thought I had a bug and rarely do I go to the Dr. but after a month or so of not feeling better I gave in and went. (mind you my second child was only four months old at the time, she was not sitting up by herself yet...)
Well surprise surprise...You are going to have a baby! At that moment I really became a bit hysterical. How was I supposed to be a mother of three? Two in diapers?! And the thing that scared me the most was not that I would have another rough pregnancy but that I would gain even MORE weight and be even further from my goal.
But like things always do they happen the way they are supposed to and nine months later I had beautiful baby girl number three. Now three years later and one more relocation (to Idaho) and it brings me to the present time. Really I wouldn't change anything about how things happened and now that my youngest is (almost) three I am really going to hit losing my weight hard and MAKE it happen not for anyone else, but for myself!
I spent the bulk of 2012 calorie counting and going to the gym 2-5 times a week (alternating with zumba, weights, swimming, and running/biking) without much results (12 lbs lost and 1 pant size). So when I was presented with a new product line that is up and coming in the US that promised to give me 'lipo results without surgery' for a price of only $199 with a money back guarantee I jumped on it. So in the days to come I am going to be sharing with you my daily routine, what products I am using, how much weight and inches I am losing, and such! :) I hope you will join me on my journey! Thank you for reading and I will up date you with more information next week!
