My Wake Up Call

Most people ignore when things start getting rough, but I'm not one to play around when it comes to my well being.  With losing my mom, I saw life as a gift and treated it as such.  I started living day by day and focusing on myself more.

The results of my blood work showed that I had enzyme levels that were way too high in my liver.  My doctor thought I had fatty liver disease because of my weight.  They started tests and decided that doing a liver biopsy was the best choice to make sure that the elevated levels weren't the start of something more.

Two things came from that biopsy:

1. My liver was fine but just a little fatty
2. If I didn't change my lifestyle, I'd lose my liver

Now, for a 18 year old to hear these words, it is shocking.  I had just become an adult and now I could die? They told me that I either had to lose weight or lose my life.  Which do you think I chose to do?

Now, my family knew nothing of my decision to work on getting myself healthy.  My heaviest "known" weight was 346.4 but I am sure i was heavier than that at some point.  I was already depressed and didn't realize how bad my weight affected my health.  Once I made the choice to lose weight to make sure I was around to see what life had to offer me, my new journey had begun.

This is a picture of my sister and I from late 2009. 

 I am the girl on the right.