Checking In

Today, I started my 5mg Mounjaro and I weighed and I'm so excited to say I'm down another 5 pounds. I weighed in at 283, and I tried something new today and I can't wait to find more at the supermarket. I know you want to know what it is? 

It is FairLife Protein Shakes. 

I was gifted a chocolate flavored one and OH My Goodness...I love it!!!!

I will not weigh in again until this series of the 5mg Mounjaro is over so I will catch you next time...

Winning Life 2K22 

Check Up Time

I shared in my earlier post that I had an appointment today and although I was skeptical about Mounjaro I can say I'm a believer. I was 302 and today I am down 14 pounds and I'm getting stronger. I set a goal of 5,000 steps in August and I surpassed the goal and I'm walking about 10,000 steps a day. I am having some nausea and I'm working on my reflux. Overall I feel great and my doctor was very pleased. I will be going up to 5mg of Mounjaro and I go back and see the doctor in another month. I will keep you posted and I'm working on me ... The winning life 2k22 and beyond!!!

How I'm doing

Disclaimer....I'm NOT doctor...just sharing my journey with you!! 

If this is something you want to try please go and seek medical advice...

I started taking Mounjaro August 26, 2022 and after much research and speaking with my physician we thought this would be a great way outside of surgery to help me get the weight off. Post COVID and for the betterment of my health. What is Mounjaro is a new weight loss drug that helps your pancreas to break down your food better and it also makes you feel full with also working on your mind not to over eat...I was taught by my physician how it works because I have to give myself a shot in the recommended areas on my body. I'm on my third shot at a dose of 2.5mg and I must admit I'm not eating as much and I also try and eat as much protein as I can because once you are full you are full and you can't eat anymore for the day. I'm drinking lots of water because I'm thirsty but not overly. I am eating lots of fruit because it helps to sustain me when I'm hungry but can only eat a bit or two...recently I have fallen in love with pudding because it is only 100 calories and it is healthy for me when I can't eat solid foods. I truly feel as if I have gotten a gastric bypass or sleeve surgery. I only have a small window where I can eat and if I over eat my stomach will let me know or I will get nauseous, so I watch it.

I have a doctors appointment coming up September 13. I know I'm already losing weight those that know what's going on can see small changes. lastly, I heard from the doctor and she told me I had already loss 4 pounds and that was in the first week. I'm working on me...

The winning life 2022...

Fat Face Photo taken July 2022...

Working On Me 2022

In several months with God's blessing I will be celebrating 50 years of life. No it hasn't been easy and I've had some health concerns and challenges along the way but God has been good to me!!!

I have been on many weight loss journey's and have done very well to loss over 100 pounds. We have had what has been call a dreadful virus called COVID that has taken so many people from this world to the next. I'm thanking God that I wasn't one that wasn't taken and I have another opportunity for life.

That being said I want to be better. I want to be healthier once again. I want to feel good when I wake up and I want to have lots of energy and I had that before the Virus came and now I'm doing something about it ...

Follow me once again to the winning life 2022 into 2023 and let's see where we will be in the end....I'm still working on me ...

The winning life 2022...

August 2022

I have heard of Mounjaro and I see how many are doing well on this new weight loss journey. I had the opportunity to start during the ending of May of 2022 but I didn't think it would be the best thing for me. 

First, I thought it would be expensive and I knew with the cost of inflation that it wouldn't be the right thing for me or my family. Second, I hadn't done my research and I wasn't sure if this was something that was good for my body. Yes, had I heard about in the News...Yes!! Had I read about it in media last journal's  ... Yes but not in great detail. I thought it would be best if I just waited my turn and see what I could do.

Thirdly, after waiting and seeing so many different results I have decided to try it!!!

In the next post I will talk about what it is and the affects I'm experiencing if any!!!

I'm working on me....

The Winning Life Continues....

Slight Difference

  There is a slight change... 

First of all I will admit that I didn't think I had it in me and my mind had to change. 

I didn't want to do this again and I really thought it was useless. The question come 

back up as I would call them "The Doubting Statements!" 

This is going to be hard work, This is going to be harder than the first time, do you 

really have what it takes to be successful this time around. People are going to be 

talking about you again if you get to small and I had to put all those negative 

statements out of my head because it didn't gain me nothing but more time on the 

couch, rocking chair or bed and never moving this body. 

It is going to be a little harder but I have the skills inside of me to get moving and 

changing the way I have eaten since the pandemic. I'm determine and I have seen 

some noticeable changes in how much I eat. 

I have to be a healthier me for me and no one else. 

This is not for fame or glory, nor is it for my spouse nor my children but this is for 

me and this is how I can show them that I care about myself and that I love me 

and that is to get moving and not hanging out with the bad things in my life. 

I have to LIVE and I can't give up... I might fall but I will get up and try again 

tomorrow and the next day!!! 

Keep walking with me as I keep walking for myself!!!

Six Months and Counting

 Six Months and Counting 

There comes and time in a person's life that they realized the true definition of weight loss and the journey you will take all your life unless you have weight loss surgery and even with the surgery your life style has to change or it will be for nothing. 

I have decided to go on another adventure through my weight loss process. I realized today that my other blog winninglife2017.blogspot is still fully able to access so if you want to see the younger version and what I did. 

Look for me over on that page. 

Nevertheless, I'm coming on another milestone in my life and I want to ensure that my body, mind and spirit is ready for this next chapter of my life so here are somethings I have realized about myself. 

I was at the peak of my weight loss and several things changed: 

1. I let what others thought of me change the way I looked at weight loss - I forgot it was about me. 

2. The covid-19 virus came to the USA and I stopped doing any exercise in fear that I would get sick and I succumb to staying home and eating whatever I could find. 

Basically, all of the bad habits I had just came back and I went back to being an emotional eater. 

Sometimes life comes in and sucker punches you in the face and some things in life you can't just shake off but I kept fighting. 

I knew I was in trouble when the following things started happening: 

1. I wanted and smoke a few cigarettes.         2. I wanted fountain drinks.  

3. No real food in my diet ...                       

4.  I was eating out more than eating a proper cooked meal at home...

5. I wasn't enjoying life; life was handling me! 

My life changed when I could honestly ask myself the questions Why? and the reasons were in my face. I literally got nausea and sick at my stomach and life became evident. Where had all of the 154 pounds I had lost go and why was life handling me so rough. 

I had to take control of what is most important to me and that is MY HEALTH. 

My Journey has begun and I'm down 5lbs as of today and I can't wait to see how far I can go... 

60 pounds and counting continues... 

January 2021 HNY

Here I am once again...telling my story about my weight loss and I'm more determined now to keep it off because of my health.

Let me say if you're reading this is my journey and if you see yourself wanted to do what I'm doing please consult your doctor, your medical professionals!

Now let's go! At the end of 2020, my stress once again had to overwhelm me that which caused my blood pressure to elevate 161/101 I was immediately taken off work and I have been on medication which if you know me I DO NOT like to be on medication. I decided that this year is going to be better and I was going to start right. I decided to get on the treadmill that was given to me by my mother which is not all that good but it is better than what I had which is nothing! 

I'm walking every day for 15 minutes my time is from 6:30 to 7:30 pm is the time I have allocated for myself. I started on January 1, 2021, and I must admit that I'm sleeping better and I noticed that my breathing is much better as well. 266 pounds is too much for my body to handle and it has to go right now so I'm saying goodbye to 66 pounds I will not stop now until I'm 200 pounds and keep it off. I have done well to keep my weight off from 380. I believe now that I have been 260 for so long that I know it is time for me once and for all!

The winning life continues God give me the strength the courage that I need to finish the project that you have given me!

December 2020

December 2020 

I am aware that 2020 has made a precedent mark in history and it has changed that way we do life as usual. First, we have a Pandemic called COVID-19 or the Coronavirus and it has taken the lives of over 300,000 plus and as of the end of this year the number is still rising... Although, we have two approved vaccines that has just been approved by the CDC & approved by the FDA. 

People has become tired of not masking up and it has become were people thinks and their behaviors has caused a big riff because it has been politicized by our current president Donald Trump and his followers that would be the Republican Party. He lost to President Elect Joe Biden in the November Election but has refused to give it up but on last week the Electoral College made it official that he would be the 47th President of the United States. 

I have plans to take the vaccine when it becomes available to educators, I'm ready to go back to work without being cautious about contracting the virus. I have been blessed along with my family not to have contracted it as far as we are aware of. 

I'm pinning this in my blog because it is important to me because my health is in need of a upgrade because we have been inside so much and I haven't exercised like I should have because of the unknowns about the virus. 

My job and the risk-factors of young children and teenagers giving it to me and I bring it home to my family that have a lot of the risk factors has caused my stress levels to raise my blood pressure and now I must get it down. I have to make sure the stress in my life stay extremely low. 

I'm off work until January 2021 so I pray that I maintain and keep everything under physician care until I can get back to some sense of normalcy...I will continue to pray and believe God for the Miracles in my life that are to come forth. 

I'm encouraged that I have "The Winning Life!"  

ROLLER-COASTER RIDE

         Roller-Coaster Ride

 Why haven't I lost any weight this year in 2020, I know one reason is because in January when I thought I was going to get back on track, I had a death that was close to me. The man that I was married to and gave two children died and I went into a depression stage while trying to play a role that I was strong. I was upset, sad, because I was suppose to be celebrating my wedding anniversary, an accomplishment award from my job and last but not least my birthday all of it ended, canceled with one phone call. I went into mother mode to protect my young adult children and making sure they were alright that I immediately put me on the back burner instead making sure we all went through the death process together so when they all left and went back home that I was alright too, but again that didn't happen. 

I began emotionally eating, not caring about what I ate and when I ate it. All of my goals throughout the years where out the window and you know what I didn't even care. Some of you would say, "You were grieving, You were doing the best you could!" I do understand but I should have been able to shake it off faster but I thank God for my husband because he could see that I was having issues and he help me through it and saying good bye to my past freed me and I can say "I'm FREE!" 

MARCH came in 2020 as a MARCH 

A Virus that came in and many say that it was in the United States way back in January but it was in many cities it was killing their love ones. We shut down mostly everything and I was home. I can't believe we are home and I hadn't been feeling well at all and I went to the doctor to find out that I had a sinus infection and it put me in the bed for about three months and I wasn't able to do basic function because my allergies were so horrible. I couldn't hold my head up without my head swimming, my ears hurt, my throat was almost raw. Most of my coworkers had the flu and we had shut down for that prior to the COVID19 action that was taken by our governor. I went to the doctor almost two time in a month, sometimes every week...I even went to specialist to receive a pill that was suppose to be for migraines but that wasn't what was wrong with me ...I took one pill and my brain felt like a blooming onion and I immediately stop taking it and began to Pray to my heavenly Father asking him to heal me and he did and by May 2020, I was healed. I had four rounds of antibiotics and four rounds of steroids and I gained thirty pounds although the doctor was pleased to see that I didn't gain more and I couldn't be more pleased. 

I know you have heard, "April Showers brings May Flowers" and it does do that but my allergies from outside wasn't going to let me out my house. I went for a walk around the block in my neighborhood and the next day I my eyes were pink so now I'm putting allergy eye drops in my eyes and I wasn't able to go outside and walk and enjoy the good outdoors. I began trying to figure out what kind of exercises I could do indoors but none of them was something that I really wanted to do because I love being outside but outside wasn't loving me back. I just tried to walk around in the house and if we went out of town I made sure that I could walk long distances from my vehicle to the building I was going too. 

May came and I finally went outside but I was limited to just my home and no where else unless I was driving and I was so happy to be driving that I was some of everywhere for several months. 

June & July was still the same ole same o' thing because now we are wearing mask and I have been making them since March and I found myself enjoying making mask. I got comfortable about being home and sewing. I've made more than 1000 and just giving them away to people young and old. The end of July, I was alerted to the knowing that I will be going back to work in August. I can't believe it when we don't have a vaccine and I'm around people that everyone will be telling everyone to put their mask on over their nose and mouth most of the day. I kinda laugh about it when a friend-girl sent me a cartoon article, how we would look after the first few months of being back. 

I have so many mask to make now and get ready for every little person I see and especially on the big yellow. 

August 2020 comes in with a BANG! 

I wasn't ready for what I was going to have to deal with and not really understanding or not knowing if I would return but unfortunately I did! I don't live in "FEAR" but I do have knowledge of how viruses operate and it's important to have your mask on and do all of the precautions that have been given as directives. I don't feel that were I'm working is doing its best to keep things sanitized properly. I do believe that if we had more people sanitizing that I would be more comfortable about my time on my job... Can you say STRESSFUL! 

This is some of the reason why my weight wasn't doing well, but I'm getting back on it!

 Do you think I can let me know, what you think? 

Thanks for hanging out with me today! 

The Winning Life 2k2k 

How to Explain

THIS BLOG STARTED IN APRIL! 

I DID HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY IN THIS

 APRIL POST BUT FOR SOME REASON 

I WASN'T ABLE TO FINISH THIS POST BUT 

I WILL EXPLAIN KEEP WATCHING!