Just a brief introduction at what we are doing and why.
Number one, I started this journey over 160 lbs overweight. This has not been easy. The food I was eating was terrible--fast food was no. 1--Taco John's, Hardee's etc was sending me into heart attack territory. At age 63, I was getting scared--how much time do I have left? My feet are numb from peripheral neuropathy, my blood work shows me as "borderline diabetic" (that means I'm not diabetic yet but could be soon). My hubby is a great fan of veggies but he has not been able to convert me--I didn't like veggies because I grew up on a produce farm. What's that you ask? It's where most of your vegetables come from, whether bought fresh or in canned or frozen goods. I spent a few summers doing what is called "stoop labor" for my family--walking or in some cases crawling down 90 rod rows of black muck tending to the crop of carrots or lettuce or whatever was being grown. My day started at 7AM, an hour for lunch in the shade (no A/C) and then on again until 5PM, with 7AM-noon on Saturdays. All this for fifty cents an hour. Then I had to eat the same damn things i had been crawling through all day for dinner. They literally made me sick to look at them.
So my hubby has had an uphill battle. Over the years I had lost weight before--most successfully when I did NOT subscribe to a weight loss group like WW or definitely not any food subscription services like JC. I couldn't afford them so I just got fat. That is until I fell on the ice and broke my leg.
After six weeks in a cast, I had to do rehab and the only thing I could do was ride an exercise bike. So I went out and bought one (I'm good at shopping and then turning items into clothes racks) but this one I actually climbed on to. I wanted to be able to walk properly again. While I did not turn into Arnoldetta S., I did get more interested in exercise so I bought a weight set too and a bicycle. When the weather warmed up, I started riding my bike around a local lake, a distance of 13 miles, or at least back and forth to work (3 miles). This helped me lose 45 lbs on my own and I was looking real svelt too!
Then it all fell apart--I just stopped one day, burned out. I couldn't do it anymore. The thought of exercise made me ill and I eventually got rid of the equipment and back I went to eating.
Now here it was fifteen years later and I got married in the meantime. My hubby is a great cook and he uses lots of veggies but I still loved my fast food. My weight came back on plus another 100 lbs or more. I began to wonder what it was about me that made me want to eat all the time.
In the meantime I started to wonder just how fast food was affecting me and also what else out there was damaging my health. I had been okay up almost through the 1980s but then that's when things started to spin out of control. I take most of the blame for it initially but then how was I supposed to get off the fast food? Still I looked down my nose at friends who literally ate at McD's three times a day every day. I knew better, I thought. Still the weight climbed up there.
After marriage, hubby's cooking helped but still there were desserts and now there was more money for more foods. I still hated vegetables and he had to disguise them in other foods often. I would often only eat corn, green beans or peas. That was it.
Finally it just got to be too much and though I Had tried myfitnesspal.com before and lost a few pounds, I had quit but now it appealed to me again. So I started back in March simply journaliing my food on that website. Slowly, the weight started to come down even though I was not exercising. I also began researching how food additives and GMOs can influence a person's health and it started to scare me--everything I ate was either processed beyong recognition or so permeated with chemicals or altered genetically that I began to wonder if there was any food value at all to it.
I am old enough to remember when food was FOOD. But I have never really been without food that was treated in some way--the vegetables my father grew were sprayed with herbicides several times a summer. But we also got a lot of our food from our neighbors who raised things like sweet potatoes, tomatoes and sweet corn that was not genetically altered. Now everything we eat...EVERYTHING...is not meant to nourish us but to help a small number of people in business prosper.
Why?
Why should I be sacrificing my health so that some faceless businessman or woman can put more money in their off-shore accounts? I have worked my whole life until my last job disappeared into the morass of a declining economy and the chain I was working for was eaten up by a larger shark and closed. Yet to those faceless people it seems that now that I took my Social Security early (who will hire a 63 year old with bad knees and back? No one. I tried). that means I am now a leech for taking the benefits that I worked over 40 years to accumulate.
Well I say fuck them! I am going to be posting whatever information I can find on the web that exposes these monsters for what they are: just pathological users and moneygatherers.
On the up side, I have begun looking at the toxicity that their greed has invaded my home as well and I am slowly converting everything I can over to Shaklee, a 50+ year old company which has always been all natural, no GMOs, non-toxic, green and economical. This includes my vitamins and other health supplements, my cleaning supplies, my laundry supplies and I will be converting other products as well. This stuff is safe for YOU, safe for KIDS, safe to use around pets too. I like Shaklee so much, I became an Independent Shaklee Distributor so I can help YOU get free of all this artificial GARBAGE too.
So pardon me if between my rants and expose articles, I post some of my favorite Shaklee items or videos/audios from my Feel Better in 31 Days website (see the links). These are FREE. Then if there is something in them that interests you or pushes a button about a health question in your life, feel free to contact me and I will research your issue and see if i can make some suggestions for supplementation that can help you. I'm not a medical expert by any means BUT I do have access to a huge network of people I can ASK and see about coming up with some helpful suggestions (ALWAYS CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR).
So that's my initial rant for this blog...<sigh!> If you liked what you read...or if you hate it, I don't care...leave a comment and I will respond if you need a response. Remember, check the links on the sidebar to do some research for yourself and the contact form at the bottom right to send me a private note. I promise I will answer.
And so it goes...
Have a safe and wonderful whatever it is going on in your life.
Katie
P.S. I forgot that since I started back on myfitnesspal in March, I have lost 34 lbs. I have a long way to go but am still going strong, even getting through the usual roadblocks of weekend trips and special events without gaining the weight back. Exercise is still a problem though because I am also a writer of fantastic fiction and I spend all my spare time on my ass, writing! What's wrong with me? :) You can see a link to my book The Metatronic Chronicles on the side bar and you can download a free copy from
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