The past few years I’ve lived a very BLESSED life, but a very HARD life, too. I’ve juggled like a mad woman and in the process let myself go … and go fast … back to my original weight pre-Xyngular.
Sooo much has been on my plate:
- Single mom of three very active kids with no co-parenting help — educational, activity schedules, medical, home, guidance and emotional needs for my three biggest blessings come down to me alone
- Owner and manager of multiple businesses
- Owner and caretaker of multiple homes/properties, many head of animals/livestock, and a lot of equipment and vehicles
- Sole financial provider of my kids, college educations, our properties and our lifestyle
- Manager/agent to Lib’s growing career as a performer that includes a ton of travel and daily behind-the-scenes
All this has me tapped out. It’s completely drained and exhausted me. I’ve been solely focused on helping my kids and my businesses reach goals. No one can say I’m not a task manager and I definitely have vision.
I’m proud that I HAVE managed it all, but the sacrifice is that I’ve not been focused on my own self. Instead of eating right, meal planning/prepping/cooking, exercising, taking down time or doing hobbies/activities that bring me joy, I’ve lived each day with not enough time in the day and too much on my list of things to do. Taking care of myself has just seemed like one other thing. Eating fast food or convenience store crap and working from sun up to sun down has been reality.
Adding to all this is that I’m in perimenopause, which has been affecting my mood, energy levels, joints, sleep, etc. Hormones are no joke, you all!! What’s real is that I did this to myself. As my blessings grew, it just caused me to fill my bucket with more blessings … probably too much for a single person to manage solely. Doing more and doing it fully is kinda like an addiction. And, if you know me and my family, you know we are never halfway about anything. When a decision is made to do something, we are ALL IN. Balancing is HARD for me, you all!!
In early May, I decided I HAD to do better and worked at making better choices and lost 18 pounds in 2.5 months. Then, in late July, we had a horse get severely injured, maybe even career ending. As weird as this is, caring for the horse and seeing the effects of its injury threw me off track bad. It brought me back to when Lane had cancer and I was his caretaker. I felt guilt, sadness, worry, stress and continually thought back to Lane’s battle. And … I gained back 10 pounds.
A couple weeks ago Xyngular contacted me asking if I’d be part of a beta test group of a different system. I was super nervous as not only have my bad health habits kept me from being consistent, but I’ll be traveling more than a third of the days of the 30-day beta test window. I honestly didn’t know if I could stick with it and knew it would have to be something easy I could fit into all this chaos!!
Well … preliminary results are in, and I’m down almost 9 POUNDS in the 8 days. NINE POUNDS, you all!! In a WEEK!!! And that’s with my nearing-50 body, which responds so much different than it did in my mid-30s — the last time I lost that amount in that little of a window!!! And, it’s without exercising. With being under stress. Without starving myself. I combined The Gut Collective products with some of my fave Xyngular products like our Lean protein shake and our Xyng energy product and followed a healthy meal plan, averaging 1,300-1,400 calories a day. I ate REAL FOOD full of protein and healthy fats! I can already see my face thinning (hallelujah as that is THE thing that makes me the most self-conscience) and yesterday I wore a loose pair of size 9/10 jeans (down from a tight 11/12) that I couldn’t even come close to wearing a week ago!!
This isn’t a pity party. This isn’t an attempt to get you to lose weight with me. This is just me being real and raw and disclosing things that I haven’t been forthcoming with (though I KNOW people could SEE my chunky butt self).
Here is what I know. I NEED to learn to balance. I need to learn to ask for help. I need to learn to say no and stop the addiction to overflowing my bucket even more. I need to stop thinking I can always do MORE and be more. I need to learn to take time for myself and not just tap myself out giving to everyone else. I need to keep going and learn consistency in terms of my own body.
It’s a struggle. It’s a process. I’m sure to be detoured as life happens around here ALL. THE. TIME. But, it’s a start. And for that, I’m proud and feel a sense of relief that I’m on my way again. I have the direction with this new system that is giving me results and hope!
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