I was so happy to meet some folks from the Get Healthy Harlem at the District Five Science and Math Expo at the Amory in Harlem.  I was telling the ladies about my journey back to good health.  I had four children gained weight with all my children and now I am on medication for Hypertension and I found out that I was on borderline of getting diabetes.  That was when I decided to make a committment to my personal health.  I am successful in so many things but losing weight has been such a struggle.  My husband ask me one time "What are you Afaird of in losing the weight".  That was a profound question because he was right what was holding me back.  A successful woman, loved by so many people but can't seem to stick to changing my diet and keeping my weight down.

So after looking into my doctors eyes and seeing how frustrated he was with my case, I knew that he cared  to get frustrated I knew that if I didn't really take my health seriously I was going to be in a lot of trouble.  So what I started doing was doubling up on vegetables and fruit, eatting less starches and more green stuff.  No fried foods at all (maybe once per month), then a couple of weeks ago I joing a gym, I haven't exervise since god knows when.  The first couple of times, I went I thought I was going to die.  I crawd to the bathroom, thing and parts hurt that I didn't know I had, but now I feel bad if I don't go to the gym.  When I don't go, I walk, I walk and I walk, I make myself go out now and take a lunch walk and walk, this has helped me with my energy I don't kno yet if I've lost any weight, but I am on my personal journey to getting off medicationa and getting my life together.  I will post my journey from time to time.  It is not easy, some days I want popeyes so bad, I think I could kill someone, but fast food is killing us slowly and my girlfriend of 15 years just lost her baby sister 26 to diabetes, she lost her leg and then her will to live, she died so young, she had so much life ahead of her and now she's gone.  I don't want to die like that. 

Sincerly,

Miss Mae