The start of Forever Overcoming Food!
This blog will continue to update my progress towards becoming the hottest momma/wifey that I can be!
I started this blog in Oct 2010. I decided to work through my doctor and do an extreme program called the HCG diet. Between Oct 2010 - May 2011 I lost 57 pounds. The journey to keep it off and stay fit is a lifelong one. That attempt towards keeping the 57 pounds off went to no avail. I gained and lost multiple 80 to 60 to 40 pounds up and down since 2011.
After several attempts with other lifestyle changes, eating habits and the up and down yoyo journey.....I am restarting the blog in Nov 2018. Every part of what you see from 2010 - today is just as prevalent in my journey to being the healthiest version of Amber.
The key for me is overcoming my LOVE FOR FOOD! What is it with food? I'm in a constant never ending battle with what is healthy or unhealthy. I make choices to eat things I know are not good for me. Over the last 40 something years of my life, I have tried tons of different diet plans, healthy eating changes and say it is all a life style change but I always end up giving up. Everytime I make a little progress and take two steps forward I turn around and take 10 steps back. I have all of this head knowledge but applying it is a whole different story.
I remember being a young girl and as soon as I hit puberty feeling very chunky. My mom was often doing different weight loss plans so I joined her. In my teen years, I tried everything from the lose 10 pds in three days diet to following my mom's Weight Watchers diet. I wasn't really fat but I thought I was. I look back now and would love to weigh the average 132 pounds I weighed through those years. I was active as a baton twirler and could eat whatever I wanted with little to no gain. (ahhh, the teenage years) The summer after graduation, I had a car accident. This accident changed my life forever. After months of a recovery from injuries from head to toe I had gained 15 pds. That started my upwards journey on the scale.
In 2006 - 2007 I took my first steps towards changing my eating habits. I was tipping the scale at 216 pounds. I started off the year on a Daniel Fast with my church. I loved it so much I researched everything I could about foods from the earth. I felt so great I decided to become vegetarian. I incorporated the organic foods from the earth into a Body for Life program and dropped 40 pds. I went through a divorce and all I focused on was looking "hot" by eating right and fitness. In 2008, my new hubby and I got married. Shortly after I hurt my back and within three months was down with a back surgery. I gave up vegetarianism and downhill I went, again....my battle with food is never ending and always a fight.
I have so much head knowledge about eating right, exercising and taking care of myself physically, spiritually, and emotionally. It is time to apply it. I want to grow old more healthy than when I was young. I love getting older. Every year I feel like I am so much wiser and for it I am thankful.
