I remember what it felt like to give up. To look at myself in the mirror and feel nothing but disappointment because no matter what I did and how hard I tried, I couldn’t get the weight off.
Ten years ago, I experienced failure after failure, experimenting with different diet and exercise trends and compromising my own happiness just to get down to a normal size. I was a single parent, and also trying to balance a career. I still had baby weight that was clinging to every part of my body, and no matter what I did, I couldn’t get rid of it. I tried cutting carbs, counting calories, limiting portions, and was still running on the treadmill seven days a week. One would think that going to these kind of extremes would lead to the weight loss I was looking for, but you know as well as I do that they just don’t work.


