Welcome Friends
So glad you came to visit me here at my website. I created it just with you in mind and I hope that here you will find all the wonderful things I have created here to share with you.
Most anyone who knows me already knows that I am a YouTuber once and still on occasion a crafter though who gave up making videos and uploading them to my craft channel to spend more time on my weight-loss channel once I decided to change my life and my eating habits. I have now been on a weight-loss journey since October 2nd, 2011, and in only 4 months I was able to achieve a successful and at the time what I thought was a healthy loss of 80 LBS, by limiting my fats and eating lots of veggies.
I moved in June 2012 and started to get back to my old ways and bad habits. Little but slowly I started to regain some of the weight I had lost though I kept up the struggle as I do to date, like most other people on this journey I struggle with the food monster! Today I try and keep up a mostly Carnivore way of eating.
I am un-diagnosed or treated by anyone in the medical field, self-diagnosed if you will as its been clear to me for many years now that I am most certainly a food addict, an occasional binge eater, a person who eats to stuff down emotions or even when bored and one who would think I am constantly hungry even when I should be full. I can be eating a meal and thinking about what to have for the next.
I work days and nights as the main supporter of my family and caregiver to my elderly mother in her 80's.
I seldom would make time to exercise and drinking water for me seemed hard because I hardly felt thirsty enough to bother remembering to swig down even a convenient 16.9oz bottle let alone 64+ ounces as recommended I drink daily. For me It was like, "why don't you just shove a hose up my@&&", ....Yeah I said that!
April 23rd, 2018 I had my gallbladder removed. Just a 1.5cm stone in the neck of my otherwise healthy gallbladder but they convinced me into allowing them to laparoscopically remove it. Seems starving myself of fat for so long with a low fat to fat free if at all possible diet had created kidney stones which caused me great pain. In the wee early morning hours of a Sunday, ("why does things always happen on the weekend?") I had severe pain which pushed me to have the desperation to allow my husband to drive me to the nearest hospital, which where we live then was a townwide-known mistake long before this medical emergency. BUT I was in pain and desperate!
In short I will just say the hospital stay was not like anything I've ever experienced with anyone I had ever stayed with during their hospital stays and maybe it's because I stayed with them and cared for them while they were staying. (rolling eyes) This place had nurses who didn't care to work! Either their caseloads were overloaded or they were just plain lazy! Don't ring for a nurse expecting to get any assistance especially if you have to use the bathroom...no no no! If I waited for them to come I would have wet myself in my bed! A bed they did not care to clean for me when I asked them to anyway. It's way in the past now, so I digress!
If you continue to read from here on my site you will find I have one heck of a sense of humor among other fine qualities (smirking)!!!
Most anyone who knows me already knows that I am a YouTuber once and still on occasion a crafter though who gave up making videos and uploading them to my craft channel to spend more time on my weight-loss channel once I decided to change my life and my eating habits. I have now been on a weight-loss journey since October 2nd, 2011, and in only 4 months I was able to achieve a successful and at the time what I thought was a healthy loss of 80 LBS, by limiting my fats and eating lots of veggies.
I moved in June 2012 and started to get back to my old ways and bad habits. Little but slowly I started to regain some of the weight I had lost though I kept up the struggle as I do to date, like most other people on this journey I struggle with the food monster! Today I try and keep up a mostly Carnivore way of eating.
I am un-diagnosed or treated by anyone in the medical field, self-diagnosed if you will as its been clear to me for many years now that I am most certainly a food addict, an occasional binge eater, a person who eats to stuff down emotions or even when bored and one who would think I am constantly hungry even when I should be full. I can be eating a meal and thinking about what to have for the next.
I work days and nights as the main supporter of my family and caregiver to my elderly mother in her 80's.
I seldom would make time to exercise and drinking water for me seemed hard because I hardly felt thirsty enough to bother remembering to swig down even a convenient 16.9oz bottle let alone 64+ ounces as recommended I drink daily. For me It was like, "why don't you just shove a hose up my@&&", ....Yeah I said that!
April 23rd, 2018 I had my gallbladder removed. Just a 1.5cm stone in the neck of my otherwise healthy gallbladder but they convinced me into allowing them to laparoscopically remove it. Seems starving myself of fat for so long with a low fat to fat free if at all possible diet had created kidney stones which caused me great pain. In the wee early morning hours of a Sunday, ("why does things always happen on the weekend?") I had severe pain which pushed me to have the desperation to allow my husband to drive me to the nearest hospital, which where we live then was a townwide-known mistake long before this medical emergency. BUT I was in pain and desperate!
In short I will just say the hospital stay was not like anything I've ever experienced with anyone I had ever stayed with during their hospital stays and maybe it's because I stayed with them and cared for them while they were staying. (rolling eyes) This place had nurses who didn't care to work! Either their caseloads were overloaded or they were just plain lazy! Don't ring for a nurse expecting to get any assistance especially if you have to use the bathroom...no no no! If I waited for them to come I would have wet myself in my bed! A bed they did not care to clean for me when I asked them to anyway. It's way in the past now, so I digress!
If you continue to read from here on my site you will find I have one heck of a sense of humor among other fine qualities (smirking)!!!
The Old and New Me
Here I am at roughly 300+lbs! October 2nd, 2011 I decided enough was enough. Joined SparkPeople.com FREE, and was asked to put in my current height and weight. Wait, I don't know my weight??? I had not wanted to step anywhere near a scale for years fearing the worse! I quit smoking cigarettes nearly 16 years before and I knew I had packed on the poundage! Now if I wanted to do something about it I had to go step on my mom's scale and see what damage I had done to myself...299.8lbs! Oh NOOOooooo This is not fun, I could not believe my eyes! I already can't see from the years of being on the computer more hours than I know what sleep is, but really? Really?? Really??? No Way!!! So here I was, the decision already made...I am gonna do this!!!! So I hoped on YouTube, October 3rd of 2011, made my 1st video and I have kept up with my plans to lose 1/2 of me. Now my initial goal was to lose at least 100 lbs by October of this year 2012. I did not reach that goal but I am happy with the 77.8lbs I have lost thus far and I am not giving up the fight!
See My Inspiration
Watch the video from "LosingJess" on YouTube that I saw that gave me the inspiration and motivation to change my life forever!
Jess Today
Here is that beautiful girl in an image I snagged off her Facebook Page (Hope She Doesn't Mind) Its late and I don't think she would...after-all I am so very proud of her I am only bragging who helped me thanks to the video she posted on YouTube! She deserves the credit in my eyes and mind!
Image was posted January 2012 but she has maintained this wonderful loss of hers. She posts what she eats daily on Facebook and though she has not had a recent updated video I take it that she really has nothing more to share since nothing has changed since her last one where she achieved her goal! I ♥ this girl! Thanks Jess for giving me another chance at living life. I don't know that I would have ever found the inspiration to even try without having seen your video! October 19th, 2016 Tragedy Strikes!While I should have been celebrating my 5th year on YouTube making videos for my weight loss I was involved in a pretty serious car accident. Its believed the person who hit us from behind was texting while driving and never even made an attempt to try and stop. My car was totaled!
This caused some difficult issues both mentally and physically and as stressful as it all seemed to be I began to eat though my pain and emotions and quickly the weight I had lost in September found me again!! This made things even worse. The pain caused me issues with sleep, and I began to make excuses with the holidays on the way that I needed to bake and cook as its always been my way to deal stress or my feelings, only I wasn't just giving what I was baking and making away I was eating more than my share as I knew not to do and got way out of control and though I didn't want to do what I was again doing I was in full-blown addiction finding it very difficult to stop myself. I had to find a way to change, I saw a video on YouTube with Dr. Eric Westman who was conducting clinical studies for the Ketogenic Diet. I heard from him what it was and wasn't and the more I listened to him the more I felt this was something I could do. Thus January 8th, 2017 began day #1 of my trying Keto. |
Me In 2012 At One of My Lowest Weights
Here I am above 222 lbs and though the still large clothes I wear is not doing my much smaller body any justice for the sake of taking this picture with my crappy old cell phone cam I am happy to say that I went from a 4XL to a a 1 XL though the blouse I am wearing above is a 2XL and has those ruffles which if your trying to show how slim and trim you have gotten from the amount of weight I have lost you might want to stay away from ruffles!
WOW
My Weight Before and My NOW today March 3th, 2013 though the pic was taken end of February.
Yeah I know I was thinking the exact same thing! WoW!!! From here I wasn't able to lose another pound! The low Fat restricting of calories was no longer sustainable and I was getting frustrated and depressed!
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