Growing Into Health with Kirsten

Growing Into Health with Kirsten

I am a 30 year old, married woman with 2 kids & am pretty good looking. But I wasn't always so wonderful. I grew up having no idea about healthy food. We ate what my dad cooked, and with 5 kids at the table, you ate it all or someone would take it from you. There were no leftovers.

I was bigger than the other kids in my class and bigger than my siblings, but I kept hearing, well she'll grow out of it. Once, while I was in 8th grade I tried on some jeans & they didn't fit, they were 18s. I realized then that I had a problem, but I had no idea what to do about it.
For the rest of my school days I was the funny one. I had smart comments, a huge smile & I would do anything people dared, or asked me to. I got used by boys, I got in trouble for listening to mean girls & I didn't tell anybody how bad I felt about myself. I was looking for acceptance.
When I met my husband he too was overweight. We got together & got bigger, together. Looking back we had the worst diet ever! We would go through McDonalds on the way to his parents’ house for dinner. I had no idea that drinks had calories in them, I mean really how terrible is that, to DRINK your calories! That just seems wrong on so many levels. I enjoy food way to much to drink away my calories, but I was. I was consuming over 4000 calories a day without realizing it.

Once we got engaged, we got on track to losing weight, but the weight was our only focus, so I took the easy way out & decided diet pills would be the cure. I did lose weight, but learned nothing about eating healthy. I exercised because I simply had so much energy I didn't know what to do with it. We did lose weight for our goal, the wedding. Of course 2 years later, we were just as big as we had been before.
It is only in the last year that we have learned how to eat healthy and what exercise really is. We now have 2 children that we are training to avoid obesity & stay fit. Our kids will know what healthy food is. We enjoy your store, the options are great & we shop there often. Our largest weights were, 314 for me, a 5'7" woman and my husband 395 6'3" man. Currently we are 165 and 270.

We eat at home, mostly south beach diet type foods, we lift weights and get 30-45 minutes of cardio a day. Our children love to run and bike! My story really is simply about the "you can do it!" kinda attitude. It is hard and you have to retrain your palette, but everyone can do it!