Hello all, my name is Heather i am 40 years old i was diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis about 6 years ago. i had been overweight since having my kids in 1995 but when i got RA things went downhill, there seemed to be a cycle for me in regards to the RA,  first , denial, then i was certain i could fix it with natural methods. well that didn't work out at all so I went the doctors and drugs ruote well the drugs are harsh and they scared me all the warning and side effects , add to that i hate needles ... as in a REALLY hate needles , and also my body seemed to hate every med i took . well things were rocky. i quite taking the meds, the side effects were just as bad as what they were curing... ya as you can guess that went over even better ... not. anyway a couple years later i couldn't walk i couldn't work i couldn't live , so i gave in went to a new doctor. first thing i learned when i went back ? your doctor makes all the difference this new guy was cute , nice and honestly he listened and that was huge.
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but i got ahead of myself see while all this was happening from diagnosis to the end of 2012 i gained weight ... like a lot of weight i was 265 pounds and only 5'3" . i was in a depression so deep i did not care about me at all. i was miserable, sad, tired, and saw no way out. then i gave in when i got to the point i couldn't walk and found a new doctor , boy what a difference , he listened he didn't make me feel like a nut because i hate needles and we started on treatment. i started feeling better physically and then i decided as my new years resolution i was going to lose weight... and even no i had that resolution every year since i turned 15 ... some how that year it took. i realized a lot that year
one , i was totally obsessed with food , i didn't eat to live i lived to eat, i thought about what to eat , when to eat, how to cook it, like at least 50% of my day and when i started watching what i ate , this got soooo worse then it went to every second i thought about can i eat, can i eat. it didn't help i was home all day didn't work and had a disease that made being moble not so easy. but as 2013 went along i found i was on roll i lost between january and october 1st of that year 55 pounds i felt awesome mentally as well as physically.
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then the month of halloween hit ya sugar evidently is my kryptonite i started just digging into the halloween candy once a day , then a few times,  then a bag was gone and so was I . I lost my momentum, i hit a plateau and fell off the diet as of today  i have gained back almost 20 pounds and i am starting back at what feels like step one all over again . I lost that obsessive food thinking a while ago but man is it back with a vengeance now. so i am struggling with getting going on the diet again, the daily issues of a disability, and raising 2 teens on budget you couldn't feed a dog on... thats my life and i am happy to have the chance to get better, to see my kids as they grow.
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why did i start this blog? i guess to give my self accountability , to maybe find people dealing with the same stuff  (being a mom? having a disability? weightloss pick one lol ) .
Well, thats me in a nutshell and before i can proof read this i need to go get my son at school, so talk to you all soon.... Heather