Woah...dude...it has been FOR-EV-ER!!!
Well here I am, once again starring at a computer screen to share my life or a story with an audience I cannot touch or see. I came to this blog because I am trying to get into my writing professionally part-time to follow this huge passion of mine and in doing so I had to find and share the links to a blog I "used" to write on. In coming back here and exploring a bit I feel great nostalgia for the blogging community that helped me become who I am, helped me lose weight, helped me face fears, changed the very person I am to my CORE so many years ago! Starting in 2009 and up to about 2013, this blog and this community was a giant part of my life.
As life got busy, as it always does, the seasons changed and life took me away from this blog. Not to mention it was died to an AOL account that caused me to have to log out of ALL my gmail accounts just to login to Blogger so that was a pain in a butt so it slowly fell away. But here I am today, with a desire to update you on my life and to maybe...just maybe...begin sharing again in this format.
Back in 2015 I started a YouTube channel to share about our 8 Acre Arizona small farm and my gardening efforts to grow food in the desert. That channel has been with me ever since and I am up to 7,000 subscribers now and it is just a great creative outlet for me to get to share something I love and hope that I can encourage others to grow food. But if you go back further than that, Liz from 2008 was not only NOT into gardening but she wasn't even into EATING veggies, much less caring where they come from, how to grow them, how to save seed, what to do with soil issues, etc. Boy has my life changed a ton!!!
I am so happy with where life has lead me now. That is not to say there haven't been many hurdles along the way because boy there sure have. Granted I went from a single Mom to 2 boys to now a married woman with 6 children but I honestly feel like nothing in my life would have been possible if I hadn't been for that huge step to make the decision to take control and responsibility for my weight back in 2009 by getting the Lapband. I did not enjoy the random moments throwing up on strangers, in public, on the side of the road (I can't even fathom how many times that happened if I were to try to add them all up) or just the days of tears, tears and more tears as I would realize flaws and faults within myself that lead to being almost 300 lbs and in total denial about who I was as a person. And in denial about portion sizes, geez!! But through every hard battle, you grow more and you come out on the other side a bigger (spiritually, we hope) person, a better person.
I have told many and I will preach on for years to come; the journey of self discovery is probably the hardest one you'll do. But the more you begin to learn about yourself, your likes, your dislikes, your flaws, your attributes, mercy, you can write this entire love story of just falling in love with YOURSELF!!! You could fill countless pages romanticizing just how magnificent it is to truly accept and love yourself. And I'm going to tell you right now that if you're going through a weight loss journey and you are NOT on a journey of self discovery and you don't cry thinking how horrible you are or how you're such a flawed person or how much you hate this person or that person for hurting you so much....and you're just counting calories and working out...sista, you're gonna be fat again. Because the only way to true success in weight loss, to lose it and maintain is to have a TOTAL lifestyle change and to do that you have to change the inside. The damage we do to ourselves starts in our heads and our hearts and the fat is merely the result of that. It is not the blame, it is not the burden. But rather, focus on the inside and what hurt you and where you're at spiritually to figure out how to heal it and where to go from here!
I hope to share more in the near future and I would love to show you so many photos of the years gone by, because you know I have them because I'm still 100% obsessed with photography and capturing those life memories!!! But we'll save that for a later date in the future as I try to EASE back into the blogging world one moment of my time...at a time! Bless you, I love you all! I pray your journey is beautiful and ugly all at the same time because that is real life!
Xoxo,
Elizabeth
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As life got busy, as it always does, the seasons changed and life took me away from this blog. Not to mention it was died to an AOL account that caused me to have to log out of ALL my gmail accounts just to login to Blogger so that was a pain in a butt so it slowly fell away. But here I am today, with a desire to update you on my life and to maybe...just maybe...begin sharing again in this format.
Back in 2015 I started a YouTube channel to share about our 8 Acre Arizona small farm and my gardening efforts to grow food in the desert. That channel has been with me ever since and I am up to 7,000 subscribers now and it is just a great creative outlet for me to get to share something I love and hope that I can encourage others to grow food. But if you go back further than that, Liz from 2008 was not only NOT into gardening but she wasn't even into EATING veggies, much less caring where they come from, how to grow them, how to save seed, what to do with soil issues, etc. Boy has my life changed a ton!!!
I am so happy with where life has lead me now. That is not to say there haven't been many hurdles along the way because boy there sure have. Granted I went from a single Mom to 2 boys to now a married woman with 6 children but I honestly feel like nothing in my life would have been possible if I hadn't been for that huge step to make the decision to take control and responsibility for my weight back in 2009 by getting the Lapband. I did not enjoy the random moments throwing up on strangers, in public, on the side of the road (I can't even fathom how many times that happened if I were to try to add them all up) or just the days of tears, tears and more tears as I would realize flaws and faults within myself that lead to being almost 300 lbs and in total denial about who I was as a person. And in denial about portion sizes, geez!! But through every hard battle, you grow more and you come out on the other side a bigger (spiritually, we hope) person, a better person.
I have told many and I will preach on for years to come; the journey of self discovery is probably the hardest one you'll do. But the more you begin to learn about yourself, your likes, your dislikes, your flaws, your attributes, mercy, you can write this entire love story of just falling in love with YOURSELF!!! You could fill countless pages romanticizing just how magnificent it is to truly accept and love yourself. And I'm going to tell you right now that if you're going through a weight loss journey and you are NOT on a journey of self discovery and you don't cry thinking how horrible you are or how you're such a flawed person or how much you hate this person or that person for hurting you so much....and you're just counting calories and working out...sista, you're gonna be fat again. Because the only way to true success in weight loss, to lose it and maintain is to have a TOTAL lifestyle change and to do that you have to change the inside. The damage we do to ourselves starts in our heads and our hearts and the fat is merely the result of that. It is not the blame, it is not the burden. But rather, focus on the inside and what hurt you and where you're at spiritually to figure out how to heal it and where to go from here!
I hope to share more in the near future and I would love to show you so many photos of the years gone by, because you know I have them because I'm still 100% obsessed with photography and capturing those life memories!!! But we'll save that for a later date in the future as I try to EASE back into the blogging world one moment of my time...at a time! Bless you, I love you all! I pray your journey is beautiful and ugly all at the same time because that is real life!
Xoxo,
Elizabeth
#weightloss #weightlossblog #blogging #blogger #lapbandbetty #mineandbettyslapbandjourney #lapbandjourney #lapband #weightlossjourney #selfdiscovery #lovingmyself #newlife #creativewriting #inspiration #loseweight #youcandoit
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