Ok, so my story is................ (was that really a drum roll? Wow Nicole you did this site up right!) I am in the perimenopausal stages closer to menopause. AND I totally screwed up my body about 15 yrs ago with the NO FAT thing. I lost a ton of weight! WHat I did not know at that time is my body detected that I was starving it. SOOOOO as I started to eat the fat again, the body said OH HELL YEAH and stored it for future use, but the future is mid life and menopause and the metabolism is screwed up anyway. So OK I gained a bunch of weight and I can not get it off. I joined a gym about 5 yrs ago, and somehow messed up my right shoulder,I have no rotation there, I have a problem with my right foot, callous and bunions etc and walking is painful, both knees hurt, left hip BURNS when I walk any length of time. I have scoliosis, so back pain is a normal everyday thing, taking care of Mom, somehow in Sept., I pulled something in my right arm near my elbow and OMG it hurts if I twist the wrong way. So you see I am falling completely and utterly apart! There is nothing that does not hurt on me at some point during the day so my excercise dwindled to nothing. Now my calorie intake has sky rocketed! but it is not from food, I like wine. I like wine alot. I like 4 or more glasses of wine each night. EMPTY CALORIES. So I need all of ya'alls help to get me into a program!! Don't forget I am getting old too. LOL This is s depressing. But it is the truth. I have been a "big boned" girl all of my life, but this is pretty sad.
