How I Broke Up With Myself to Succeed in Weight Loss

January 1, 2014— “This is it, I’m going on a diet”

January 1, 2015— “Seriously, this is the year I’m going to lose weight”

January 1, 2016— “Last bite of cake, I’m so losing weight this year”

January 1, 2017— “Here we go again, time to lose weight”

Every year for the last four years I have resolved to lose weight, and for the last three of those years I have failed. It wasn’t until 2017 at 340 pounds that I changed my life. I have lost 80 pounds with absolutely no surgery and no diet pills; from the start I dedicated myself to doing this transformation the good old fashioned way with diet and exercise. It hasn’t been easy, but it has absolutely been worth it. I’m not where I want to be YET, but “progress over perfection!” This journey has taught me so much and I want to share it with anyone who feels like losing weight is a lost cause. Trust me, I’ve been there, so I know that you are scared, lonely, and you’re thinking about taking diet pills or having weight loss surgery. PLEASE DON’T! I promise you, you have everything inside of you that you need to succeed and what you learn about yourself along the way will be most rewarding.

January of 2017 was my year and (I thought) I was ready,

• Join a gym
• Sign up for training
• Buy healthy foods
• Do your research

Boy, was I wrong; I was so NOT ready! I must have read dozens of articles and watched hundreds of videos, but in reality what I have experienced throughout the last year, no video could ever prepare me for. That is why I wanted to start this blog. We will talk about everything from the good, the bad, and the in-between of living life on a weight loss journey. I plan on rolling out some cold hard truth and discussing everything from stomach pain to metallic smelling urine (more on that later). Nothing is off limits because I wish there was a blog out there when I started that was brutally honest.

In conclusion, let me leave you with this: being where I am now and looking back, I realize that I have failed so many times to lose weight because I had convinced myself that my weight was not a problem. I used every excuse in the book, from, “it's okay that I’m overweight because I’m tall and big boned,” to “I have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) so I can’t lose weight.” That is, until February 2017 when I sat alone in front of a full length mirror staring at a number I had just scribbled in a notebook: 340! I knew in that moment that I could not—correction, I would not—continue my life this way. I stood up, looked straight in the mirror, and told myself that I was done. I looked at myself and said, “You are fat, you are unhealthy, and you are killing yourself. Brittany, you will NEVER see 340 on that scale again!” I allowed myself to be honest, ruthless, and completely raw with myself, and everything changed.

Tip #1 to Weight Loss Success: Break-up with yourself…

Till next time.

Xo,

Brittany

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