My Weight Loss Journey
Emotional eating is a terrible thing, and hard to overcome. As a teen, I was always about 10 pounds underweight, and could eat a ton of food and never gain weight. As a result, I learned to love all the "bad" foods, and turned to them when things got rough. This started to catch up to me after college. Funny enough, I developed high blood pressure and hypothyroidism well before the weight started creeping up on me. But I steadily gained about 6 pounds a year for too many years, and didn't care enough to do anything about it. I've always hated exercise, and still do although I am trying to change that now. I'm 5'6" or so, and have always had a large frame--big bones, wide hips, broad shoulders. Even when I was underweight, I was a size 10. I hear about people being a size 6 or even a 0 and think "no way! they must be nothing but skin and bones!" Once I reached 250 pounds though, and my size 22s were getting too tight, I decided enough is enough. A friend of my sister is an Herbalife Independent Distributor, and had been telling me for years about Herbalife and how it can help you to lose weight and improve your health. Her husband even got off his meds for high cholesterol and high blood pressure! So I decided to save up my birthday money and give it a try. I became a distributor as well, mainly to get the discount. I thought if I found some people who wanted to buy from me great, but that wasn't my goal.
The first three weeks I was using Herbalife, I didn't exercise much. Some walking, but not enough to matter. At the end of the first week, I lost 6 pounds! Without exercise! At the end of the third week, I'd lost 14 pounds! I was totally amazed! Then I started cheating a bit on the diet, which consists of two nutritional shakes a day and a healthy meal, and four snacks. The holidays were especially hard. Before Christmas, I'd lost a total of 25 pounds, or 10% of my body weight! And that was AFTER Thanksgiving! LOL Still not much exercise going on either. Since then, I've put about 6 pounds back on, mainly because of the emotional eating problem. I've still lost two dress sizes and my doctor is very pleased with my results. My statins for my high cholesterol were cut in half, I have more energy, and an no longer anemic. And I am on the bare minimum as far as supplements. Now it's time to kick it into gear and actually start exercising! I keep finding excuses to not do it--arthritis hurts too much, stuff like that. So I'm starting out slow, but really going to go for it this time. And I'd love to help others on a similar journey! So if you are interested, please contact me and I can get you started on the Herbalife products. There are tons of tasty recipes to try with the shakes, but I admit I'm too lazy! I just mix the shakes and go. LOL My favorite flavors are dutch chocolate and cookies & cream. I even like to mix the two. Or add flavored coffee creamers on occasion.
Regardless of getting sales (I'm just not a salesman at heart), I am staying on this journey probably for the rest of my life. Herbalife has a new DVD fitness set out, and I'm dying to order it and try it out! Maybe with the birthday money this year. Stay tuned, and I'll keep everyone posted on how it's going. Herbalife is the #1 nutrition company in the world, and for a good reason. High quality natural products developed by leaders in their fields--even a Nobel prize winner and a man from the FDA who left there and sought out Herbalife! They are FDA approved and regulated too, although the FDA always posts their usual claim about not supporting any health benefits on these products as they usually do with any supplement or nutritional shakes. In fact, most aren't approved by the FDA at all!
The first three weeks I was using Herbalife, I didn't exercise much. Some walking, but not enough to matter. At the end of the first week, I lost 6 pounds! Without exercise! At the end of the third week, I'd lost 14 pounds! I was totally amazed! Then I started cheating a bit on the diet, which consists of two nutritional shakes a day and a healthy meal, and four snacks. The holidays were especially hard. Before Christmas, I'd lost a total of 25 pounds, or 10% of my body weight! And that was AFTER Thanksgiving! LOL Still not much exercise going on either. Since then, I've put about 6 pounds back on, mainly because of the emotional eating problem. I've still lost two dress sizes and my doctor is very pleased with my results. My statins for my high cholesterol were cut in half, I have more energy, and an no longer anemic. And I am on the bare minimum as far as supplements. Now it's time to kick it into gear and actually start exercising! I keep finding excuses to not do it--arthritis hurts too much, stuff like that. So I'm starting out slow, but really going to go for it this time. And I'd love to help others on a similar journey! So if you are interested, please contact me and I can get you started on the Herbalife products. There are tons of tasty recipes to try with the shakes, but I admit I'm too lazy! I just mix the shakes and go. LOL My favorite flavors are dutch chocolate and cookies & cream. I even like to mix the two. Or add flavored coffee creamers on occasion.
Regardless of getting sales (I'm just not a salesman at heart), I am staying on this journey probably for the rest of my life. Herbalife has a new DVD fitness set out, and I'm dying to order it and try it out! Maybe with the birthday money this year. Stay tuned, and I'll keep everyone posted on how it's going. Herbalife is the #1 nutrition company in the world, and for a good reason. High quality natural products developed by leaders in their fields--even a Nobel prize winner and a man from the FDA who left there and sought out Herbalife! They are FDA approved and regulated too, although the FDA always posts their usual claim about not supporting any health benefits on these products as they usually do with any supplement or nutritional shakes. In fact, most aren't approved by the FDA at all!
