Good early Florida morning folks! I wish you all could be here. The weather is sunny and glorious this time of year!
Warning, long theraputic novel for myself below.
Cookkimonsta, sounds like you have been working on this all your life and have succeeded in the losing, but not the maintaining. I am beginning to see that is the hardest part. Also, the alcohol is an issue for me too.
Both my husband and I grew up in a household where at 5 pm my dad came home from work and us 10 kids and my mom sat in the living room and talked while they had cocktails. Then as we turned 18, my parents would include us on the holidays. Fast forward to me as a young mom, I rarely had wine or beer from age 20-40. I could not afford it, was too busy with 4 children by age 26, and was dealing with an alcoholic husband until 34, when I left him and took my 12,11,9, and 7 year old with me to attend college. At 40, when I graduated and started my career as an accountant, I met my current, wonderful hubby. He wined and dined me and we were married. Now I was coming home from my job and sitting down for cocktails before dinner with hubby hecause that is what our parents did. In fact, as a hobby, we made wine and beer for 20 years together and drank it like water after work. Or shall I say, we drank it instead of water!
I always weighed about 130 at 5’4”. Here we are today, retired from a wonderful career, fighting wrecking hour (happy hour) and weighing in this morning at 169 at age 62, almost 63. To be fair to myself, even at 26 yrs and 110 pounds, I had high cholesteral (300). But I did not have high blood pressure etc. The good news is that I know with Fast 800, I can lose the weight and probably lower the blood pressure and keep the a1c down. The challenge is fighting the habits and history of the past, and once I am successful, maintaining that balance.
Let’s do this together, shall we?
Thanks for reading this, if you got thru it. I have never really wrote all this down before, but thought it would be theraputic for me to really look at what is going on.
Catherine