52 lbs & 40+ inches w/pics...33lbs to go

First---I did not get here from overeating---not all fat people eat too much aznd I can say fat people because I WAS one!! You never know what someone might be dealing with so don't judge!!

I am over half way to my goal weight. I was injured in an accident 8 years ago. When it was all said and done I had to learn to walk again, feel pain 24/7 and take tons of medications. I have continued to have to take tons of meds, pain meds and so on due to nerve damage and RSD in one leg and chronic pain in my back as well as a thyroid that would not work even with medications. Most meds had a weight gain side effect plus I still had pain and could not workout and top it off with the thyroid and 85lbs just attached to me. I had come to terms with forever being overweight because I could not even workout from pain. I cannot feel from my hip to ankle on my right leg, my brain was retrained to trust it is there but there was horrbile pain even if I can't feel the limb completely.

I had our first child 9mo ago and lost the baby water weight in 6 weeks so these pics start at the exact weight I was when we found out we were expecting---so NO this loss is not baby weight.

In Oct I began this journey and not intended either---I had given up. I was given a vitamin supplement sample because I was tired and little did I know what it was going to do to me. It is a powder so full of my dailies, antioxidents, anti inflamatories and so much more it changed my life. Within a month my pain was GONE and I did not need any of the list of medicaitons I was on, weight started to come off (8lbs-1st month)--holly molly my thyroid was working again and the meds I was on for it couldn't do that. That gave me hope to just give it one more shot and see if I could workout with no pain and I could and have continued to do so since!!

Long story short, 5 months in and I am still pain free for the 1st time in 8 yrs by taking this vitamin supplement (the anti inflamatories play a major role in this--Tumeric is AMAZING), off ALL medications for pain, anxiety, sleep and thyroid and have lost 52 of the 85 lbs. I can workout again and not spend 10 days recovering from it and in so much pain I can't move.

Those of you that just don't want to workout---don't take it for granted becuase some people truly can't without a pain not even comparable to child birth!! Having my son was a walk in the park compared to the pain I felt 24/7 !!

Fibro, RSD, RA and nerve damage are terrible things to have to live with and very hard to explain to others because on the outside we look fine but inside were not.

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