Losing weight should not be a dreaded experience. If you give some thought to it you will realize that it’s a matter of living a normal lifestyle – not living to eat but eating to live. This is what Emily Emerson did to lose 138 pounds of unnecessary weight. . .
A fateful doctor’s appointment on July 1, 2015, provided Emily Amerson with the necessary nudge she needed to finally ditch excuses and lose some weight for good. At 301 pounds, Emily was struggling with lupus and thyroid autoimmunity, and she was having gallbladder attacks every week. “My body hurt constantly, the medications weren’t working, my blood tests were getting worse, and my weight was out of control,” she told POPSUGAR.
After reviewing test results with her doctor, Emily asked her what the next steps should be to get back on track with her health. Emily’s doctor was honestly at a loss for words. “She literally looked at me, shrugged her shoulders, and shook her head. She had no idea what else to do,” Emily recalled.
While driving home from the appointment, Emily tearfully thought about how she would care for her then-2-year-old daughter by the time she got to kindergarten. And that’s when she was struck with a divine inspiration of sorts. “It sounds crazy, but right then, with tears on my face, I felt so strongly my God, or my higher power, tell me, ‘I intended you to be well – let me show you how,'” she told us. “I don’t know how to explain it except that it was so real, so powerful, and so undeniable, I dried my face right then, put down my self-pity, and immediately walked into this process.”
The first step of Emily’s incredible 138-pound weight-loss journey? Completely revamping her dietary habits. The mother of one started by eating “real, whole, local food” instead of processed goods. “If there was something processed and packaged that I wanted, I figured out how to make the real food version of it,” she told POPSUGAR before explaining how she once made homemade, organic corn tortilla chips from scratch when a sudden Mexican food craving struck. She later completely cut out processed sugar because “it had an extremely addictive response in [her] body.”
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