I have been working 7 days a week for the past year and I have become so used to rushing through life because of it. No workouts at all just WORK WORK WORK with hopes of purchasing a home.
I go from one job to another ,one place to another ALWAYS RUSHING and because of that I feel like I am always tired. Until now. Due to corona virus pandemic we are on lockdown. Quarantine to our homes. It’s been 3 weeks and I’m so relaxed I can’t move. I really needed this break. The problem is all I am doing is my household chores then I am just sitting around and eating. I have turned into a typical couch potato. 😵 Just yesterday I stepped on the scale and It read 198 lbs! Holy shit I!!!! I AM ALMOST 200lbs again!!! It’s like I was shocked but why? Why should I be surprised.
Of course I’ve gained weight! I have been inactive for nearly a year and have been mindless eating for a couple of months now. So why I am I upset??
Because I am not scared of gaining weight I am scared of Gaining a life altering disease like heart disease or diabetes. Diabetes prevention was the reason I started this journey to begin with. So taking my health journey back to basics because I can’t take a chance. I need to break these unhealthy cycles!!! The problem with that is this pandemic has us locked in and we can not go anywhere, so I have to do this from home. Which before wasn’t an issue but now that I have been stuck at home for months I want to get out. I NEED TO GET OUT!!
The pandemic put us through so much uncertainty we did not know when things were going to back to normal. All I knew is we were locked up in our house away from the world and it got real old real fast! Not being able to go anywhere was one thing but being locked in the house with someone you didn’t even like was something else. Prior to quarantine I filed for a divorce and while the divorce was in progress, The world shut down and time stood still and we were stuck. The stress of it all put me through a tornado of mixed emotions which triggered my emotional eating issues, I was binge eating almost daily. Which of course made me gain even more weight. when the world reopened we went back to work and everything was different. I was allowed to go back to work but the kids didn’t get to go back to school everything was online. and although one son was thriving the other was going through anxiety and depressions. I didn’t even know he was going through anything until I saw him breakdown. I did not know if it was the pandemic itself, Our divorce, stress of school, or the fact tat we were locked in our house for some time. I wanted to take him out and have some bonding time but due to the spread of COVID Everything was limited capacity and regulations kept us from enjoying anything. It created a stressful work and home environment that lasted a longer time than we all expected. Which needless to say impacted my mental health and of course my constantly triggered my binge eating.
The pandemic created other stress issues in our lives that challenged us. like the fact that our landlord sold the house we were renting and we were forced to leave and had no where to go. We had to live in a motel for a couple of months which became another stress factor for me until we found another place to call home. Things eventually got better for me mentally, once the pandemic became less of a threat. Not so much physically. I have gained a total of 50lbs and up until recently (2.5 years later) I have not been able to get it off!!
So getting my shit together and busting my ass to not only to drop the weight but to recreate myself MIND, BODY, & SPIRIT
ALL OVER AGAIN
MY BODYQUEST TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY 