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I have been working hard at transforming my life for the last few years. I have kept an open mind and been very determined. My determination caused me to do a lot of research for myself. I have found a lot of different things to help me along my journey, affirmations being one of them.

In the last 20 months I have lost 95 pounds to date with only 20 more to go to reach my goal. I did NOT take diet pills, injections, follow any fad diet, have surgery or join a weight loss program. I couldn’t have afforded it even if I had wanted to try that route. I simply made one unhealthy habit change to a healthy habit. Kept it up for 5 weeks then it became a new habit your body craves. So I would move on to the next bad habit I wanted to see gone. This is the first time I have ever had to face the problem of losing weight. I have not gained any of it back even when I hit a 4 month plateau.

I was unemployed during this time and had moved across country in the hopes of a job that fell through when I got here. I had left an abusive marriage 8 years earlier but was still struggling to recover financially and deal with the emotional damage to me and my children. I was so used to being judged and found lacking that I got very ill. I was put on medication that had a side effect of weight gain, my weight DOUBLE in six to eight months. I was told I would need the medicine for life and I was a good girl and followed the plan for a year. I felt worse, I hated being out of breathe all of the time, and I was still tired too much. I told my doctor to try something else. He said no this is working. I said but I am now obese and at risk of diabetes, fine send me to a nutritionist then. He said you can’t lose that weight it’s medication induced. I told him to watch me.

Now while I was losing the weight they had trouble keeping my medication level at a theraputic level and decided to try me off meds. Guess what that medication I needed for life was no longer necessary, my sugar levels dropped back down to perfect levels,I did lose the medication induced weight. Accomplishing this gave me back some of my lost confidance from my marriage. It also got me to questioning my own negative thoughts. I mean if doctors can be wrong maybe other things I believed just because someone I thought knew more about that than me, told me this is so, should be re-examined?

When I hit the plateau all kinds of negative thoughts started to flood back in, so I researched new technologies to try and jump start myself out of the plateau and found a spa treatment called Eurowave, and it worked in twenty days I was getting progress again. The staff thought I was such a happy and inspiring person they asked me to apply for their reception position. I have now been employed for a month at a job I love helping others and working with a great bunch of women. Who would have ever guessed that doctor telling me I couldn’t lose that weight would lead me to the happy, healthy, confident employed person I always wanted to be. Yes I had to cut myself off from all the negative people in my life but it was worth it. Now I even have someone special in my life again and the great part about that he has been with me for 15 of the last 20 months. He saw my potential and my determination and has nutured it along. This is the power of affirmations, and how quickly things really can change. All the best to you and yours. Keep pushing those boundaries!

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