As I was talking to my friend the other day, I shared a full recap of my weight-loss journey because she was curious and wasn’t aware. To be honest, I hadn’t really thought of the BIG picture of my weight-loss journey until recently.
15 years ago, in 2011, I weighed in at my highest weight of 270 pounds. This is where my “goal of losing 100 pounds” originated and this blog was created.
I have a lot of archived posts from 2011-2023 that aren’t visible anymore, not for any reason other than I shared a lot of pictures of my children back then and I’m just not comfortable sharing their faces in this public space anymore.
Those posts would show that my weight-loss journey has not been a linear process for me. I’ve lived a lot of life in the past 15 years. I’ve experienced heartbreaking loss, multiple times. I’ve had the blessing of giving birth to two healthy babies. I raised those babies into toddlers and into preschoolers. I’m currently raising a preschooler and a pre-teen. I have had sick days, wonderful days, terrible days, etc. all along the way.
A lot of life has happened in 15 years, which means a lot of learning has happened. A lot of success, and a lot of failure. All lessons, though.
To think of my journey starting at 270 pounds and now realizing that I’m currently 50 pounds down from that weight is encouraging! It may have taken 15 years to get here, but I made it! I made it HALFWAY to my goal of losing 100 pounds! Thank you, God!
If you would have told me in the beginning that it would have taken me 15 years to get here that would have been shocking. I’m sure I would have thought: “what took me so long?” But now that I know “what took me so long”, I am just proud that I never gave up.
Here’s to never giving up! Let’s keep going!
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