I follow this Instagram mom who swears the secret to losing nearly 25 pounds was simply being more disciplined. She watched what she ate and cut out soda and fancy coffees. She stopped snacking on her children’s leftovers. She got her hormones checked and they gave her some supplements. She started doing pushup in her living room every morning and gradually got stronger. She went for walks every day.

So she’s got me pretty much convinced. Before the wedding I’d lost nearly 10 pounds simply by living the summer life and drinking more lemon water. That’s all I did and I found myself there. You start to notice little mobility things that are different. Climbing up on a barstool, I hesitated and decided not to, there wasn’t the same confidence and stability. When getting up from the floor using only my legs because my arms were supporting a 93-year old woman, everyone had to wait on me before we could move.

It was a goal of mine to work on things once school was over. Goal isn’t the right word because goals have objectives and things you are doing to work toward them. So it was an idea in my head of something I wanted to do later. My sister called and said her father-in-law was giving up and refusing medical care. Later she called and said his son had talked to him and after that decided instead he was going to choose life.