Relapse and progress

I haven’t shared this, but it’s time.

For reasons I never would have believed, my work life faced serious challenges for just over the past two years. I learned who my “friends” sure were and were NOT!

As a lifelong stress eater, these work challenges caused me to eat … a lot. You can say it is an excuse that these work issues added massive stress to me, and people want to blame someone else for their problems. Go ahead. Feel free, I’m used to being critiqued. I know this though: for a decade I was on the right path. Work changes happened which were outrageous (and illegal) and spiraled me downward.

I didn’t lose my job, and there are other forums to describe what was done to me so I won’t get into it here, but workplace retaliation is real. And the impact of that can be profoundly hurtful mentally and physically.

But the comeback can be greater than the setback. I’m on my way towards my comeback.

Thanks to help I’ve found and my family, my mindset has shifted. I’m on the right path and have been for a few months now. One of the ways I show that I’m on the right path is to focus on physical changes and one way to show that is on the scale.

Thankfully it’s 120 lbs away from that horrible day in June of 2013 when I started this adventure and 18 lbs down from where I was in the summer of 2025. By June my goal is to be back in the 150-154 range. I’m on my way.

It’s diet and exercise. Not just one of those. My message to readers is simple: you are going to have setbacks. They may not be your fault but they are your problem. Get the help you need and get back at it. Looking forward to posting these numbers weekly till I get back to where I need to be.

Don’t give up on yourself. And I won’t give up on me either! And if you have a crisis, get help. As much as you may think you can handle it all, and maybe you can, we are all occupying space on this giant sphere called Earth. Let’s try to be nice to each other.