Wednesday, July 8, 2009

I have lost 25 lbs in 4 weeks, and I am still loosing!

Growing up I have struggled with my weight like most Americans have. My weight problem began at the beginning of my freshman year of high school. And continued to be a problem all during high school. I struggled to maintain a steady weight, my weight would bounce back and forth. I would gain weight and then loose weight, and then gain it right back. I wasn't very active in high school and I did not exercise. Exercising just was not something I was interested in. Hanging out with my friends was the most important thing to me, like any other high school girl or boy. The day I graduated high school I was at the heaviest I had ever been during my high school career, weighing in at 165 pounds. Now I'm only 5 ft. 3 in. tall so 165 pounds was not a good weight for me. At this time I didn't know what the ideal weight for a girl at my height was, and I honestly didn't care.

During college I worked at a Mexican food restaurant, because I worked there on the days I was scheduled to work I could eat for free, and on the days I was off work I could eat for half off. Being a poor college student, I ate there often. Also, during college I was not excising and did not want to or even have the desire to began. I would talk about it of course, but I never did anything about it. I even remember joining a gym thinking that if I paid for it then I would actually go and work out. Little did I know I was wrong, paying for it didn't even change my mind about working out or exercising. I went three days a week for one week, and then I just stopped going. I was eating out at fast food restaurants and just basically living the college life. After two years of college I had gained 30 lbs, and I still had no clue what my ideal weight was. All I knew was I weighed 195 pounds, I was happy, and having fun. I honestly didn't know that my weight was a problem, when I looked in the mirror I didn't see 195 pounds, to myself I didn't look like I was over weight. I had a boyfriend, I just started a job that was fun and rewarding so how could I have a weight problem? At this point in my life I didn't care what I weighed. I continued to gain weight and instead of doing something about it to loose the weight, when my clothes would start getting to small I just went and bought bigger ones. I was 20 years old and weight was the last thing on my mind. The office where I worked bought us lunch everyday and I ate it. Mostly burgers, french fries and the only thing I drank were sodas. I hated water and was not about to drink it.

Two years later when I was 22, my grandmother and father both passed away within two days of each other. I was very depressed and I had no idea of how to deal with that. So I turned to food. I ate all the time, and of course what I was eating was not healthy. I would go to work and the while I was doing my work I would drink a coke and eat something all day. When I wasn't at work I would go home and eat. I didn't leave my house unless I was going to work, so all I was doing was sleeping, eating, and working. At work I sat down all day behind a desk and I always made sure I had something to eat at all times. This was all my life consisted of for a period of two years. So now, 24 years old I had a job, no boyfriend and I was eating junk food all day everyday and would only drink coke or a beer every once in a while. It was summer time in 2006 when I had a doctors appointment, and when I stepped on the scale, I weighed in at 242 pounds. That night when I was getting ready for bed, I was standing naked in front of the mirror and for the first time I saw that I was very obese. It was that moment that I was then ready to change my life, and I knew that loosing weight was going to be my biggest goal. I applied for a new job, and two weeks later had moved and started that new job. The day I started my new job was the day I new my life was going to change.

After getting settled in to my new job, and new apartment I started out by watching what I ate. I would still eat out with friends but would order a salad instead of a burger or grilled chicken instead of a steak. At my new job I wasn't sitting behind a desk all day. I was up walking around climbing stairs and that was the start of my exercising. One thing I changed in my diet is I drank more water than cokes, and I replaced one meal a day with tuna. I started feeling better about myself after only a month of working at my new job. I hadn't really lost any weight but by changing what I ate and getting the little exercise I needed, I was much happier. I met someone and we started dating, he would even encourage me to exercise even after work. A year later I had lost 50 pounds. I now weighed 190 pounds and I was exercising. Mostly at work but I was exercising. It is amazing what just a little exercise and a slight change in your diet will do! After losing the 50 pounds, I kind of started slacking off a bit. I went back to eating burgers, not everyday like I was but I was eating more of them. I started drinking more cokes instead of water again, and was at the point that I was always tired. I didn't feel like myself. I didn't gain any of the weight back, but I just wasn't in the mood to even try to loose more weight.

I have now been at this job for two years! I noticed that one of my co-workers had lost a bunch of weight. I remember thinking how did she do that cause she was not eating healthy, she was still drinking cokes, so how could she lose enough weight that people are noticing. It was one night at work when I heard another co-worker ask her if she had lost weight? She told her she had, and then started telling her that she started taking some diet pills. She explained that they were all natural herbs and all they do is curve your appetite. She told us that she had been taking them for two months and had lost 65 pounds! The pills are called JaDera, they are all natual herbs so they are healthy, and are non addicting.My co-worker told me that she got them from over seas and has started to sell them her self. I thought about it and then started to see other co-workers and noticed they were losing weight too. When asked they said they did it by takeing the pills that my co-worker started selling. I noticed several people and thought hey I can see that it works so I will try them. I bought a bottle from my co-worker for twenty-five dollars. When I started taking them I weighed 188 pounds. I have been taking JaDera now for about 4 weeks and I weigh 162 pounds. All by taking one pill everyday either before or after I eat breakfast. I am also going to a gym 2-3 times a week and walking or jogging on a treadmill. I am 26 years old now and I know that my ideal weight ranges from 127 pounds to 132 pounds for my height!

I have set a goal for myself and am working hard with the help of JaDera to achieve that goal. My goal weight is 128 pounds. I will keep you all updated by posting a note to this blog often. If you are or you know someone who is having trouble losing weight, JaDera works!!