I dropped 43 in less than a year!

I tried food regimens that just yo-yo’d and made me feel like a failure.  The miracle injections just made me sick.  I tried walking 10,000 steps a day, but my knees gave out before I saw any losses.  If walking was too much, how could I ever work out hard enough to reverse the gain?  I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong!

I dreaded everything in life, from invitations to a party (would I be the biggest person there, could I even get a piece of cake without seeing the sideways glances…) to my doctor visits where I had to hear the same exact lecture.  I could have written his notes for him…”People are at risk of heart attack or stroke when blood pressure is too high…Probably time to drop 30-40ish…” 

It was very serious to me, I wanted to be healthier so I could be a more active participant in my families’ lives, and know that I would be around a lot longer to live and laugh with them, but nothing was working.

The worst feeling was when my granddaughter would ask me to play with her at the park.  Just walking from the parking lot up a small hill to the playground would leave me breathless and dizzy.  I could barely make it to the benches, where I would sit and watch her play.  It was heartbreaking.