The Beginning of the New Me

     As 2021 was ending, I was looking forward to the new year. It always seems like it will be a fresh start and you have a new outlook on things. What I didn’t expect was to get some news that would change the way I need to look at my life. 

     This month I was diagnosed with a fatty liver. Although that’s not what we were looking for, I was sick with some stomach issue, I got the news any way. I found out it wasn’t the cause of the symptoms I was experiencing but was told if I didn’t make some big changes my fatty liver would turn into liver disease. 

     I knew for a while I wasn’t taking the best care of myself. I was choosing fast and easy things to eat and do as I had a lot of things on my plate and felt like nothing else could be done. Unhealthy eating and not exercising like I know I should, caused me to be the heaviest I had been in my life. 220 POUNDS!!! 

     The doctor told me the way to improve my liver is to give up flour and simple sugars. Flour?!? You must not know how much I love fresh baked bread!! 

     This new journey is not going to be easy. The temptations are going to be strong. All I know is I have to do better. I need to do better. I want to do better. Here I go!