I started this blog to chronicle my weight loss journey. Here's the sitch: I was a chubby child, then normal weight in high school and thin in young adulthood. I weighed 110 pounds at 23, when I got married. I weighed 117 pounds when I went in for my first prenatal check up with my first child. Through four children, I stayed at low to normal weight.
Then things went haywire. I had a placental abruption during pregnancy 4. Child 5 and 6 were stillborn, in 2000 and 2004. Depression almost killed me. I started taking the antidepressant Paxil which made things worse though I couldn't see it while I was on in. I started early menopause at age 40, I doubled my weight (compare photos, 2012 and 2014 above).In 2011, I began dieting, but truthfully, not very seriously. I explored weight loss and body reshaping. As I learned new things, I put them into practice. Then the weight started coming off in earnest. I have lost 100 pounds, dropped from size 20 to 3 and shaved off 14 BMI points.
How? Several ways: the most important being a total eating makeover. I didn't stop eating or cut out major food groups. That's crash dieting and not healthy. I didn't have surgery or take drugs. Those are temporary band-aids, and don't produce the real changes needed for weight loss.
Literally, I ate my way to thin by swapping less healthy, fat-building foods for healthy alternatives and natural herbal supplements. Here are my top 26 fat burning weight loss food from A to Z. Fat-Burning Foods I Ate to Lose 100 Pounds
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