My Myrtle Beach Life

Trying to lose weight can feel overwhelming. I’d be lying if I said I was not completely discouraged especially because of the efforts I started making earlier this year. But this journey to lose weight was going to start with small steps.  I decided the best place to start was exercise. In January of this year I started going to the pool to swim laps every day. I was there four to five days a week swimming anywhere from 40-80 laps.  From January to August I did this.  One would expect that getting this kind of exercise I would lose weight. But that was not the case, not even 5 pounds. I even increased my walking distance from 1 mile to 2-3 miles every day.  No matter how much or how little I ate, or how much I exercised, the weight stayed static. I also struggled with inflammation in my body. My joints ached, I felt stiff in the morning, had the old lady shuffle when I got up in the morning. Eight months in I was feeling defeated.  My primary care doctor, when ...

We have all heard the saying "Enough is Enough".   Whether you were aggravating your parents and they were ready to lose it, or your own children were aggravating you, each of us at some time or another has reached our point of no return and said ENOUGH!! This is how I recently felt about my weight. Until my mid 30’s I was a highly active mother of two.  I played competitive softball, and volleyball and spent plenty of time chasing my children. When I moved south to live in a warmer climate little did I know how hard it would be to play some of the sports I loved because it was just too hot and chasing my children now only meant driving them from activity to activity. The weight gain began slowly, 5lbs then 10. Losing it would be a struggle I had not experienced before. It used to be I could just change my diet a little, eat a little less and the pounds would fall off but not anymore.  When I reached my 40’s I had settled into my new weight thinking to myself, "Okay so y...