Stop the Madness

This Slate article is basically my 80pg thesis in a nutshell.  Not a popular opinion, but my health (including my mental health) is more important to me than most people’s opinion about weight, so I’m sharing it, regardless.  

I have always been my own experiment; throw in a metabolic issue like PCOS and I beat the odds for as long as I was willing to put all other parts of my life on the back burner.  For 6 years…not 6 hours, not 6 days, not 6 weeks, not 6 months…for 6 YEARS losing weight, counting calories/carbs/fats, and counting exercise hours was my #1 priority…more important than spending time with my friends & family, more important than fully experiencing vacations & adventures with my husband, more important than taking a moment to look around, breathe, and just live life.  Did I lose weight?  Yep, almost 100lbs…but I can tell you with absolute truth that I never felt happiness about it for long…fleetingly, literally for seconds at a time, but then my immediate thought was what I had to do next to lose more.  

Not many people are willing to put 6 years worth of effort into anything, let alone a diet.  I can promise you that if you are willing to do what I did you’ll likely lose weight; but are you willing to sentence yourself to that life?  To let weight consume you for every waking moment of your day?  To put your family and friends on the back burner to achieve some random number on the scale?  To beat yourself up when you feel you’ve failed?

Stop the madness…it’s science, friends.  If diets worked, there wouldn’t be a billion dollar diet industry.  There wouldn’t be hundreds of different diets out there trying to entice you to try another one.

Instead of dieting, try listening to your body when it tells you that it’s hungry/full/wants pizza/wants vegetables/is tired/is energized.

If you’re wondering how/where to begin, send me a note, I’m happy to help you get started; to walk this journey with you.