My Weight/Fat Loss Journey with Bios Life Slim

I started this website because I'm fat. According to medical terminology, I'm morbidly obese. No matter how you shake it, it comes to layers of fat that are unhealthy. I've known for a long time that fat is bad for your health... the hard part is knowing what to do about it.

I have multiple sclerosis and was diagnosed with the disease in 1984. I have used a wheelchair/power chair for mobility for the last 25 years. I cannot stand or bear weight, I cannot walk. My legs won't support me - they are totally numb.  Given my inability to move my legs, that limits the amount of options that I have in terms of exercise. Walking used to be the way that I controlled my weight but that is not an option for me anymore. Over the last 25 years, I have continued to put on weight, a little every year. Now, I am uncomfortably fat. I have a large Buddha belly that constricts my breathing. When I have to go up in straps in my overhead lift, my whole body gets scrunched making it even more difficult to breathe. I don't like lying on my back in bed because the fact sits on my lungs.  Losing weight and putting my journey up on the Internet is a very personal decision.  I don't want people judging me "she just doesn't have any self-control."  That's not true.  I'm a very disciplined and self-controlled person; I've been the president and owner of two businesses for the last 30 years.  I am not lazy.   I work very hard every day and do not view myself as a lazy person.

It's not that I want to be fat. I have tried diets. I have tried Weight Watchers, Nutrisystem and Fit for Life. I can stay with the diet for two or three months but I always feel hungry. I always feel deprived. After working and struggling at the diet for a few months, I have lost a few pounds. In the process, I'm grouchy because I'm hungry. I get even more tired easily -- and that's not fun because fatigue is already a symptom of MS. It just perpetuates the cycle. Eventually, I give up and go off the diet. And the yo-yo cycle begins again.  Slowly the pounds creep up until I weigh even more.

Ten years ago I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. A few years later, I was diagnosed with high blood pressure and high cholesterol. They all have a tendency to be associated with each other. Of course, the solution for all of them is diet and exercise. So now I have a dilemma: I have failed miserably at diets and I can't exercise very well. What can I do to lose weight?

This website is dedicated to my fat loss journey. It is a way for me to keep focused on my ultimate goal... to lose 80-100 pounds of fat.  I don't want to just lose weight, I want to lose fat.  Because I can't stand, I have not been able to weigh myself prior to starting the diet; I have had to order meat scales to hook my overhead lift to actually weigh myself. I will update the website as soon as I have an actual weight.

Keep up with my journey through my journal.

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