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alisonmwright7176

Hi, I’ve had a major health scare about 4 weeks ago which has made me reevaluate my life. Sounds dramatic, I know, but I had never seriously given any thought to my health or mortality, I always thought about it as something far off in the distant future. The crazy thing is, I’m around sick and dying people all the time, so I realistically know this will happen! I’m 52, mother of 4 young adults living at home, wife and senior crit care nurse, I’ve been obese for the majority of my adult life and was a smoker (until 4 weeks ago) and basically treated my body like I was still 14yo.
I have gained and lost 100s of kgs over my lifetime and I do kind of feel that the light has finally come on, and that now my primary motivation for weight loss has changed- it’s something I have to do now if I want to prolong my life. And the recent health issue has finally shown me that I am important to more people than I realised. It’s a funny thing to realise- I love and care about so many people around me and would be shocked and upset if anything happened to them, but it was realising how many people feel the same way about me, that turned my mindset.
So here I am, starting again. I was 106kg on Monday, today (Friday) I’m 104.4kg, just by being more mindful with my diet, tracking everything and moving a little bit more. I’m excited but I do know that this is a familiar feeling when I start this journey- the difficulty is maintaining the motivating, and that’s where all my people around me (hopefully including you, too) will come in to support me.
Cheers,
Alison