It has been no secret that I an very overweight person. I have been battling my weight for over 20 years. I know that my psychotropic medication causes the appetite and excessive weight gain, and while I have gained over two hundred pounds in the course of time that I have been on those psychotropic medications, I have never taken an honest initiative until this year.

I am ready to make a change because I know that I need to. There is no doubt about that. When it comes to be in fear if you are going to make it through a store without reacting to feeling in extreme pain, then it is time to be concerned. This happened in 2020 during COVID when a good bit of the world was shut down, including my weekly weight loss support group when at this time nearly four years ago it became impossible to walk in the stores in comfort.

But this time when I resumed my going back to my weight loss support group after a hiatus during the past holiday season and winter weather, I had gained a massive amount of weight being the highest that I have ever been on that scale. I had known the week before that I had to make drastic changes because of my inability to be able to stand or walk comfortably.

Change can be hard, especially to the desire to eat and consume food that is all too far comfortable for me. It means that I have had to make drastic changes. It is knowing that the weight has been climbing for some time and more because I have been more consistent on my medication regimen. Earlier this year. I went to my primary doctor looking for help, but they said that I have the tools and can lose weight if I really wanted to.

It can be easy to look for a fix to problems, but it is also knowing that I have the knowledge and tools that it takes to lose weight. I just have to want to make the changes because I am the one that has to do it, no one else. Sometimes people need to have help and there are new ways to help with that, but that is not the way that I want to live. I at least have to try to combat the issue of counteracting the side effects of my psychotropic medication finally by doing what I need to do and not making excuses for doing it.

It is making better choices and changes to ease that process and knowing that there are things that can hinder that process is a big eye-opening thing. It is also seeing the small steps and progress that I have made by making those small steps by making better choices to improve my overall health by seeing the progress on the scale is motivated me to keep making better choices even when it is hard to do so because I know that there are many others that make good choices and I look up to them as role models in the process knowing that I am not alone in the process of making better decisions for my overall health by doing what is right to combat the issues that I am facing.

It isn’t going to be easy, and every day is not going to be perfect, but what is important is that I pick up the pieces and move forward with doing what I have known what I need to do for an exceptionally long time. I can do it if I believe that I can just like anything else that I have ever done.