Suddenly, my once slim body grew and became a magnet for bulges in all of the wrong places.

It seemed my metabolism had slowed to a crawl.

Even my health was going down hill, and I had very little energy throughout the day.

Some nights I’d even sleep 10 hours, and still be dragging the next day.

I had gotten to the place where I did not want to do much of anything except stay inside. I had even become concerned about my relationship with my husband. Our relationship had started to suffer and he just did not seem to want to touch me. It really hurt me since we have always had a fantastic love life. 😢

I didn’t realize how BAD it had gotten at the time.

That is, until my husband and I rented a house in the mountains for our summer vacation with the family.

When I took my bath that night I saw there was one of those high-tech digital scales right in the bathroom. I had not been on a scale in years. We did not have one at our house.

I thought about it for a minute and then decided to just go ahead and step on it.
201….What? Surely, it was off.

That hit me like a ton of bricks.

I looked at myself in the mirror, and was ashamed of the reflection. It was like I did not recognize myself.

I looked so tired and bloated and…”round”.

Honestly, I had not really looked at myself this closely in a long time. I guess I did not want to see.

I had even been dressing in the dark closet to avoid looking at myself.

How did it come to this? I realized how depressed I had been because I did not feel like myself.

The next morning my husband and the grandkids wanted to go hiking, of course…it’s what we do when we go to the mountains.

I really did not have the energy, but I did not want let my family down. We gathered up the grandkids and took off.

I could not even last thirty minutes into that hike. I felt totally defeated. I could see the look of worry in my husbands eyes. I felt like I had let my family and especially the grandkids down. They had been so excited to go on the hike with grandma.

I thought about it the rest of the day as I stayed alone in the rental. And that night I decided things were going to change.

As soon as I got home from the mountains, I started going to gym and walking.
I realized quickly how out of shape I was and my joints were killing me.

After that, I tried being a vegetarian and elimination programs and different meal programs that I ordered online.

I had some small success, but I was would always end up so hungry that I would start overeating and ruin any progress I had made up until then.

The next thing I tried was Paleo then Keto. I even tried the vegan plan for a while but I was not losing anything! The scale did not budge.

I even went to the extent of trying strange concoctions that a woman at my local health food store told me about–like, various recipes with apple cider vinegar, ginger root, lemons, and more.

I don’t know what I was thinking!! I must have been desperate!

I began to worry that something was wrong with me medically.

Could something be going on?

So, I made an appointment with my doctor to get his opinion.