Hi, Everyone!
Wow, I can hardly believe it's been a year ago this month that I'd been in the hospital with dangerously high blood sugar because of my out of control eating and when I got out I started FTS... My blood sugar came down immediately, the swelling in my legs went away immediately, and the weight started dropping off immediately! My A1C dropped from 9.8 to 5.6 in just 3 months. My cholesterol went from 246 to 157. All my inflammatory markers are in the normal range for the first time ever!
Those first few months the weight came off quickly (50 lbs.) but then I hit a plateau that just wouldn't break for some time. I ended up with tons of stress going on in my life which is probably the culprit - some eating slip ups happened but even when I was "doing well" the weight wouldn't budge. My mother-in-law lived with us (94 years old) and her dementia had gotten really bad and I was the one here with her all day and losing sleep because she would talk all night to "the people in the room" who weren't really there. She passed away at the end of May and about that time I developed severe back/leg pain (sciatica) for no apparent reason and was in excruciating pain 24/7 - found out I have 2 herniated discs. Got some relief from a steroid shot but it came back and now I'm undergoing spinal decompression through my chiropractor so that's quite a bit better now too.
Anyway! All that to say my plateau FINALLY broke - of all things - while I was on VACATION at DISNEY!! I just got determined I was NOT going to "mess up" even though I was on vacation (which is usually the time I just do what I want) - but my choice was to keep going because the weight had slowly started coming off again. So now - a year after beginning - I'm down 73 lbs.!! I just had a closet cleaning the other day and had a pile SOOOO high of clothes that are now hanging on me that I was told I need to get rid of lol! So I've gone from 5x down to 2x now!! Finally got under the 260 mark into the 250's - can hardly wait for the next goal of being in the 240's
I also need knee replacements in both knees but my doctor won't do it until I'm out of the morbidly obese category which for me will be when I get down to 232 - which is not so far away any more!
Just wanted to let y'all know how I'm doing and to you new folks - please believe THIS WORKS!!!! You just have to stick with it no matter what and even if you hit a loooonnnnngggg plateau - it WILL eventually break if you just don't give up!
- Jacki
