I'm going on a diet tomorrow!  This time is going to be different, it's going to work!  I swear I have made these statements so many times in my life and really didn't change anything.  There was that one time though.  I ate right and worked out a lot.  I lost 70 lbs and felt amazing.  I had so much self confidence and barely had any anxiety.  I met my husband during this time in my life.  Not long after we met he moved and I soon followed.  I left everything.  I didn't have a job or any friends in my new location.  I ate to cover up the loneliness, I was depressed and getting fat.  Fast forward 9 years, 3 babies, 1 miscarriage, and 90 new pounds.  I could blame it on the baby weight but really the youngest is 7 months and I had lost all the baby weight right after he was born.  Then reality set in, I am a stay at home mom to 3 very energetic little boys.  Enter postpartum depression. 

I believe that health related problems can be caused and solved with food.  If you eat crap food you feel like crap.  If you eat good food you feel good.  So why not put my theory to the test.  What do I have to lose other than weight?  I don't feel like things can get worse I already have crippling anxiety and depression.

I need to change something and know that I will not do it on my own.  To make the overweight matters worse, I'm a nutritionist.  I know how to eat and what to eat, but instead I sip on a chocolate milk shake while typing this.  So I am putting my journey out there, and just like my other projects it can only get better as I go.

So here is the plan, it is really simple.  To start, I will work out for at least 20 minutes a day.  It doesn't matter what it is as long as I am physically active for at least 20 minutes.  Next, I will be trying different "diets" to see what works for me.  First diet, clean eating.  I feel like I need to be accountable to someone so I will be documenting my journey, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Will diet and exercise help cure my PPD and PPA?  Join my journey and see!  Let me know what you have done to change your mood or lose weight.