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[quote=Anonymous]Over the last year, I gained about 40-50 pounds.  It had to do with my DC going away to college and my DH getting cancer. Anyways, I was using food to self-soothe and I could not break this, every night I would swear to do better the next day but..just could not.  My body has no upper limit of weight, so I was watching the scale go up and up.  Nothing worked and it got so bad I had very little options in my closet; I wore the same few things (washed of course) over and over.

Someone posted on DCUM that one of the national parks was releasing hotel rooms for NEXT YEAR that night.

I had always wanted to go there, and when the kids were little we had a whole plan to go there, but had to cancel because we had to move to DC for DH's job.

So I stayed up and got the hotel room.  It will be DH and my first empty-nester trip; reminds me of hikes we did before the kids.

Suddenly, my willpower came back!  I'm super-excited to go, and know I have to drop the weight in order to do the long hikes. But I'm not discouraged because I have enough time to lose weight slowly and not make my daily life too hard.  I now have the willpower to intermittent fasting (I just eat dinner) and am not eating bread/pasta, not snacking, and the weight is slowly coming off.  Most importantly, even when I'm stuck a bit on a plateau, I can tell I'm not going to lose my resolve.

I'm so grateful to that OP.   Thank you, mystery OP![/quote]

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