Have you ever gotten on the scale expecting the numbers to go down and not up? 

Ya friend, I have been there.

Have you ever kept yourself awake at night worried that your kids would be embarrassed by you one day when they realized that your belly was bigger then most moms’ and you looked different…. 

 Ya, I am raising both my hands to that one. 

 To be honest, I am still working towards NOT being there.  

I was one of those people who thought I could eat and do whatever I wanted and I would magically be fit and perfectly healthy.  

But as Hippocrates, the father of medicine said, “All disease begins in the gut.” And my perfect little bubble I created for myself of eating and doing whatever I wanted was popped after having four kids four years in a row.

 And then, when I didn’t think my weight could get any worse, I got a call from my doctor….. 

I had developed a hypothyroid. 

And the weight just packed on when I would just look at a French fry let alone eat it.

COMPLETE transparency here…..

… I was ASHAMED of myself and how big I had become. I was embarrassed to even go in public. 

Then it happened, I saw it clear as day… 

I had to choose.   

I could choose to be the mommy who huffed and puffed climbing up the bleachers to watch my kids school program, or be that mom who couldn’t ride the rides at Disney World because I couldn’t get the lap belt buckled.

 OR 

I could choose to fight for health for myself, for my family, and for our future. 

I was determined to not stay on medication for the rest of my life or to have the rubber band around my stomach surgery my doctor started talking about.

So I dug both my feet in and I started researching and praying that I could find a better way. 

And man can I say God is good and He never disappoints. 

I am proud to say I have reversed my hypothyroid and I am on a completely new weight loss lifestyle that the fat I packed on is slowly melting off. 

 God is good my friend, and I am here to tell you if I, a mommy of four kids that developed a hypothyroid and got up to a whopping 336 pounds can find victory and start to be proud in the body God blessed me with, then YOU CAN TOO. 

A verse God gave me while going through this process is, Ephesians 6:10 which says, 

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.”

WITH HIM my friend, all things are possible, He wants us to push into Him with every struggle, even something like battling the sugar addiction our body has us stuck in.