Everyone has a story that sometimes leads to making excuses and for me the way I coped was Emotional Eating.
For me a near death horse fall in 2003 pulled the carpet out from under my feet. There was lots I didn’t deal (and still don’t deal with) very well as the experience was (and continues to be) traumatic with a severe Traumatic Brain Injury and all the icky stuff that goes with it as an ongoing consequence.
Sweet things were my treat – when all else failed a slab of chocolate or a couple of pieces of cheesecake sent me into a sleeping coma. This helped me avoid the things I really needed to deal with but never fixed anything.
Years of being on my own rearing my two daughters by myself went by and in the end I saw a photo of myself and that’s what made me start looking at myself – really looking at myself…
When I look back I can’t believe I was that person…
😱 the the one that couldn’t see how big she’d gotten – what was wrong with my eyes?!?!?!
😱 completely avoided outings with anyone skinnier than me
😱 had virtually given up on losing weight and lots of other things including every finding a career path in ife
😱 felt so stressed and upset about where I was is life…
Thankfully I found the Putting Health at the Top Program. I made some enquiries and then…I MADE THE CHOICE TO CHANGE and now I am discovering a whole new person who’d been hiding from the world under layers of FAT!!
