Victory!

My stomach has decided to digest foods again! I'm not sure if it was the liquid diet or the addition of aloe vera juice, but look at the difference! (Note: I tried to make the poses/setting identical so you could really tell the difference :)

Not only am I right back on track with my weight loss, I feel hopeful again that I CAN BEAT THIS! What a great way to start the week :) 

Last night I was watching Taboo on National Geographic (my new favorite show) & they were doing a special on the taboo of "Fat." Really it was very eye opening. Watching a 650 lb man who hasn't been out of bed for years really would wake any overweight person up, I would think. I don't want to be that person, not because it's taboo to be fat. Not because the world tells me it's not ok, but because of this statement by Professor James Hill, a nutrition specialist (& believe me, this is very loosely quoted...it was taken from a TV show after all, but this is the gist of it) 

The fear is not that our children will not live as long as us, it's that they will live as long but with a multitude of debilitating diseases...because it's more likely that we're all going to become obese than we are to get to a healthy weight

 The illnesses that come along with obesity are absolutely life-altering in a negative way. I can personally attest to that. I don't want it for my children & I certainly don't want it for myself. I am not going to just beat this though. I'm going to beat this so that I can face my future children without shame. I'm going to beat this so that I can be the best mother that I could possibly be in this life. I'm going to beat this to prove at least in my case, Dr. Hill is wrong. I'm going to beat this just to say that I did.

Until later...