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Since April 1, 2018 I’ve been on a journey to get rid of some fat. In 2018 Easter fell on April 1st and in an awful joke there were family pictures, I cried that night. I felt like I looked awful. I was doing my best to cover up and hide what I didn’t like, but reality was I was about to go up a size of jeans. So I cried and then I started research to see what I could do that would last, and not be so restrictive. I’ll talk about programs later.

I did pretty well in 2018 and took of 35 pounds. Then in 2019 I dealt with some health issues and maintained the entire year while working on increasing my fitness later in the year. Now in 2020 my husband, Mike, decided that he was ready to do something with his weight and hope to kick his type 2 diabetes.

As of this post I am down 60lbs and he is down just over 50. He has been taken off of insulin and is still working hard to remove other medications from his daily routine.

April 2018 to August 2020

December 2019 to May 2020

Much of our weekly routine is me getting in the kitchen for a couple of hours and meal prepping on Sunday afternoons. We LOVE soup…so it’s easy to prep a couple of soups and other foods to keep the planning in place and leave easy choices remaining.

We’ve removed most of the “bad” things in the house and try to think with a lifestyle in mind. There’s also a whole lot of substitutions that we’ve found that make it feel like you’re treating yourself while not being so bad to your goals.

So keep visiting often as I post recipes, exercise inspirations and references I use for improving our eating habits.