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Ready to Start Again

I started this journey, correction RE-started this journey because I was in a serious, awful funk. I had previously done clean eating for approximately 4 years when I was married. I had moved myself and my children into my boyfriend's home with his 3 kids after being separated from my ex-husband for over a year. I had lost weight when I was living on my own with my daughters because I had very little money. We often utilized the local food bank and I shopped the discount bins at the grocery store for meat and other staples. We rarely ate big meals and I always made sure their tummies were full before mine. Once we moved in with Dan (my boyfriend) and his family in July, I started cooking more because I have a nice kitchen to cook in and of course I started overeating! By December I was stuffing my face with Christmas chocolates, chips and everything else and my jeans no longer fit. I had been sick with colds and flus every month and my whole body was hurting. After New