Lea’s story
Food has always featured in my life, when I am happy I eat, when I am sad I eat and for every emotion in between … I eat.
I am now in my 40’s; but since my late teens I have yoyo’d and done every fad weight loss method you can think of (and probably more)
Then we got to the end of February / early March last year, I am only 5ft tall (if that) and was wearing a UK 24/26 which were tight, snug, dug in and incredibly uncomfortable, my son was 2 and daughter 10, I saw a photo on facebook and knew something had to change.
The years of being polypharmacy for mental ill health had taken its toll (although the majority no longer consumed) fibromialgia and chronic fatigue syndrome along side ethromyalgia alongside loosing the majority of my sight due to several eye conditions combined with domestic violence and I was not resembling the person I knew I was internally but presenting externally. I was in a slump, fuelled by temporary highs of elation aided by carbohydrates and convenience food and due to trauma in 2018 which I was and still am healing from my joy of cooking had long since departed.
Seeing that photo was a loaded gun to my soul, the earthquakes after shocks left me reeling, I had a choice, continue as I am and die long before my time or change things NOW!
I raided the freezers found some protein, did an online shop for healthier lower carb veg and set alarms for every hour between 8am and 8pm to have a glass of water, regardless of where I was and what I was doing.
There were times I could easily have handed in the towel and gone back to how I was but my drive was and is there and I am invested in becoming a healthier, more mindful, in touch version of myself.
On a Sunday I raid the freezers see what meat or fish we have, and make a plan for the weeks evening meals, on a Monday I shop in person for the additional bits needed.
I have my love for cooking back, I am slowly not only liking the skin I am living within but loving it too.
It is now August of 2024, I am down just over 70lb (5stone) I have a fair way yet to go but my skin is healthier, my brain is working with more efficiency and clarity, my body is healing as is my soul.
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