Weight Loss Stories - Elizabeth Brave Lost 1. Pounds. Name: Elizabeth. Age: 4. 3Occupation: Office Manager. Hometown: San Diego, California. Pounds or Inches Lost: I lost 1. Height: 5’4. I no longer eat artificial sweeteners. I have exercised intensely, moderately, and not at all. But I am still trying. I have reconnected with my spirit. It gives me strength. ![]() By now you might have heard about the great success people have with the vegan weight loss diet. Bonus side effects with vegan weight loss Hello there Vegan. The Diet Quotes For Motivation is a new diet promising quick weight loss. Easy Vegan Meal Plan To Lose Weight; Weight Loss Photos. Inspirational Weight Loss. 23 Responses to 30lbs Weight Loss On A Raw Food Diet. Play and having a positive motivation for. What Happened During My Raw Food Vegan Pregnancy (With Photos. Empire Star Gabourey Sidibe on Her Weight Loss. What was most challenging about losing weight? Being a food addict. How long did it take you to start to see results? Right away. How long did it take for you to reach your current weight? ![]() Five years. How long have you maintained your weight loss and how do you do it? Vegan diet and exercise. How has your life changed now that you’ve lost weight? Before and after weight loss pictures. I love the transition and before/after pictures. I no longer have high cholesterol. I can ride a bike or jog four miles. I can even play sports and enjoy time with friends. I no longer feel like a complete outsider. How did Shape. Fit help you reach your weight loss goals? Shape. Fit’s weight loss success stories are very inspirational! Elizabeth’s Weight Loss Tips! Weight loss tip #1: Change one diet habit at a time, master it and then add another change. Weight loss tip #2: Go vegan! Weight loss tip #3: Make a permanent lifestyle change. No diets! Weight loss tip #4: Drink a gallon of water a day. Weight loss tip #5: Do not eat late at night. Elizabeth’s Weight Loss Eating Plan! Breakfast: Oatmeal. Lunch: Vegan burrito (rice and beans), salad. Dinner: Veggies and whole grains like brown rice, whole wheat pasta. Snacks or Mini Meals: Natural veggie chips, avocado. Elizabeth’s Weight Loss Workouts! Weight Training: I don’t weight train often but when I do its free weights or gym machines. Cardiovascular: Walking, jogging or bike. My Weight. Loss Story- Pictures and All. First, let me say how unbelievably important it is for me to share my entire story in full honesty. I don't know why I haven't shared all of it before now, but I feel it on my heart to do so here goes. My prayer is that this story reaches whomever it's intended to reach. It was slightly difficult to show childhood/old photos because I lost all my childhood photos in Hurricane Katrina, but I did have a few with me here in PA when her insidious flood waters stole my others (can't you see I'm not bitter lol). In early childhood I was the child who was a very very finicky eater. I ate only the boiled buttered veggies off of my plate and laughed as my brothers fought over my barbecued chicken legs. I would choose cheese pizza over meatlovers and was rarely found with candy in my hand. I am not sure if I had a serious aversion to junk or if my desire to be a Catholic nun stood in my way of desiring anything. As I saw it, to be a nun one must learn to deny oneself of anything pleasurable. As a result I was a super skinny child. For the longest time I never ever had any thoughts about food .. I ate veggies when we sat down and didn't think of eating anymore after that. Onto high school.. I fancied academic groups over the limited physically active groups my all- black- all- girls- Catholic high school offered. But I became a Majorette and spent hours twirling and marching for Mardi Gras seasons. I didn't watch anything that I ate. I didn't have to. High School- 1. 7 years old (1. High School - 1. 7 years old (1. Okay. college.. enter weight problem. I started freshman year wearing my nice size 5. Enter (a) 1. 8 hour course load, (b) premed courses, (c) part- time job, (d) isolation - -I was NOT the party girl, and (e) no sleep..== freshman 1. Coffee all nite full of cream. But I wasn't mindfully doing it. I didn't seem to mind it and came home to New Orleans for the summer in between years. No one said anything to my face, but I can see the stares. I actually overhead a conversation between two of my female cousins about . But, it didn't stop me. The freshman 1. 5 that I gained was NOTHING compared with what was to come. I wasn't depressed at that time. Buried in the books. Freshman year. About 1. The next year I had a near death experience. Without going into detail, the love of my life at the time, tried to kill me. I made it out alive.. I??? I walked away physically alive, but a large part of me died that day. How could I ever trust again? I built an iron- steel fortress around myself and ate away the pain. I had never used food before to comfort myself, but found it waaaaay too easy to soothe my wooes with it. Remember earlier on when I said I wasn't a party girl? Well, that isn't to make myself seem dignified. My father is a crack addict and alcoholic and has been for most of eternity. Therefore, I've been afraid to use any substance- -mostly ever- - even Tylenol. I average one glass of wine every few years. But there I was.. Worst yet, I hadn't realized there was a problem until one fateful day I ordered an extra large extra cheese pizza and I said to myself, . I found myself saying that four days in a row.. I knew I had a problem. Presenting some research at a National Conference. I still thought I was hot stuff though. I laugh when I think to myself that I didn't realize that I was that big at all! I was so wrapped up into my studying that I hardly noticed pound after pound creeping on! When I became vegetarian at the age of 2. I started to pay more attention to what I ate and then I made a huge connection. But the overeating didn't stop.. Right before graduation How tired do I look? At age 2. 2 I started using my mom's old kitchen treadmill and I drank my first homemade smoothie. I made a smoothie everyday and had awesome vegan dishes. I still wasn't cooking yet, but lived on convenience foods. I was very excited by all of it. I lost forty pounds doing this! I went from about 1. Shortly thereafter I got married.. I was pregnant within two months of his arrival. I did well with my vegan pregnancy until I went into preterm labor at 2. I was shut in the hospital, drugged, and paralyzed for about 5- 6 weeks. I took countless steroids to inflate her lungs, heart, liver, kidneys. As a result, I ballooned up to about 1. I don't have any photos from that time. They didn't believe that Kennedy would make it and I did not want one single reminder of that dreadful hospital stay. After givng birth to Kennedy, I set out on a mission to be healthy. Here my little 4 lb baby was fighting for her life and I wanted Rice Cream. I joined a gym when she was 3 months old and started out very very slowly. I mean the grandma on the machine next to me looked like Flo Jo compared to me. I didn't give a shit what anyone else thought, I just wanted to move my body. I quit the gym shortly after. My exhusband complained about the time it took for me to go to and from and it started to get cold. Plan B- Billy Blanks Tae Bo on VHS. He will always have a soft spot in my heart. I gave all of my VHS and DVDS away to a dear friend on her bday a few years ago and I miss em! It used to be (1) me, (2) Billy, (3) a used 1. When Kennedy went down for a short nap, I would work out. She was on a heart rate monitor so I would be alerted if she stopped breathing (which happened quite often). I went from 1. 95- 1. Using the book , super old Billy Blanks DVDs, my beloved Beach. Body in particular Turbo Jam and a black n white composition book to log what I ate. It was really Turbo Jam that changed how my body looked. The strength training component coupled with the crazy cardio left me sweating buckets and using every muscle in my body. But at 1. 55 lbs things started happening in my life. Kennedy developed Autism and my marriage started unraveling. Hurricane Katrina happened to my family and city and I was a full- time student and researcher at Penn State. I couldn't lose weight and played with the same ten pounds (1. The overeating/binging when sad/overwhelmed just wouldn't go away. I thought maybe Overeaters Anonymous was the answer. I attended only one meeting and knew that it really wasn't the fit for me. One day at lunch with a stressed out friend I hadn't seen in a while, I noticed that she looked great! She told me she was on Weight Watchers and I asked her what that was. Yes I was probably the only woman who never heard of Weight Watchers. I explained to her that packaged meals wouldn't work for me and then I learned all about the program that lunch period. Packaged meals wasn't a part of it. The next day I walked into a Weight Watchers meeting where my weight read 1. I was so nervous to be there. I had never in my life thought I'd need a place like that. But there I was 2. As a budding psychologist, I knew that asking for and recieving help for any problem is always the more noble thing to do. Suffering in silence and pretending to be . Anyway, I was a diligent Weight Watcher. I did the CORE plan- - basically whole foods (which I did all vegan) and used the weigh ins for accountability. I kinda felt like I was on another plan from everyone else because of how much I did things differently, but that is the beauty of Weight Watchers.. I went from 1. 55. Weight Watchers weigh ins for accountablity, eating whole foods and working out between at home and the gym (post coming this week on both). After I made lifetime.. I found raw food. I didn't need any group for that and I found all the support I needed online. I effortlessly maintained my weight of 1. I wasn't until this past year (2. I have ever gained weight in 4- 5 years. I went from 1. 15- 1. I know I know. My ass couldn't fit into one pair of my jeans. I will make a separte blog post about Kennedy's surgery when it gets closer to her one year anniversary date (July 2. I can't even put into words how my heart skips a beat everytime I close my eyes and remember that pain. I sat alone in the PICU (pediatric intensive care unit) and ate batch after batch of fries. I don't think I stopped crying every second that her eyes were closed. I have never felt so detached and so low in all of my life. I shut the entire world out. It was the only way I knew to survive it. At one point, she started doing so poorly in the PICU they called up the chaplain. I was so so so so depressed. I ate and ate and ate and didn't stop. She came home on steroids and wanted to eat everything in sight- I let her- doctor's orders. Am I eating too much? I'll share a few tomorrow and then repost em here on this page. I have 2. 0 pounds to lose (1. I seem to get a great handle on things, life throws me another curve ball. Now it's a bitter and nasty custody battle with my exhusband- the lawyer grinch. I am using a plethora of techniques to not be as phased by all of that and I finally think I'm in a good place with it all. So, what's next for me? Weight Watchers weigh ins for accountablity? I never lose that so maybe I'll give myself that once weekly weigh in to be accountable. But, if these plans I have work out (more on that this weekend), I will surely be held accountable there. I may start going there to be accountable and stop when I feel like things are under . It will be here by next week and I have to put the seats down in the VW to go get it assembled. I'll do an entire post about biking after it arrives. This is truly me facing a mayjah fear. Being more active in general. Dancing with the Wii instead of watching useless tv.. Halo the pooch for long walks.. Other ! I will be up for business shortly thereafter! I am working on so much awesome stuff!! All of em! Thanks for letting me share this long version of my history with food and weight gain/loss. I have accepted that I will most likely have to . I know what I am doing. I did it successfully for five years. I have to slow the chatter down, accept that my daugther is fine and will live a long life, and stay on the horse. Anyone else out there vibe with my story? Have you been round and round the bush?
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