I love what you say about how you started really small and just gradually worked up, like adding

one minute on the elliptical every day and walking first three days a week and then going a little bit farther.

And with the meals too, not trying to do everything all at once because I think so many times

maybe people get we get inspiration to make a change and we try to do everything all at once and take on too much and then we crash and burn.

And so I think just hearing your strategy, it sounds like a very healthy way to approach this.

Yeah, and I wasn't perfect the whole time.

Like I remember, I felt like the first like 50 pounds came off,

I feel like the easiest, but I didn't, when I look at like some people's

weight lost stories and they lose like a whole bunch of weight really quickly that was never my story.

It took over a year to lose the big bulk of my weight which was at the time about 90 pounds and it was just

in to my way.

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