12/03/2020
Know YOUR WORTH then + TAX 💸 | Vulnerable Post 👉🏾🥺👈🏾
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I started on my health journey back in 2017 to lose my postpartum weight. I was prescribed Adipex by my doctor, started exercising 4x a week, and cleaned up my diet.
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After 3 months of living a healthier lifestyle I almost hit my goal weight of 180 lbs 👏🏾 I was the happiest and healthiest I’d ever been...
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Then, I decided to attach myself to wrong man and EVERYTHING went to hell
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He would cheat on me. Lie to me. Stay out all night with his friends & come strolling in at 5 AM like it was nothing. He’d tell me not to wear make up or paint my nails. He didn’t like me wearing wigs, so I wore my natural hair.
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When we moved in together I cleaned, cooked, took care of HIS kids, catered to HIS needs and forgot all about myself and what made me happy. In hindsight, that is probably exactly what he wanted, but I didn’t know it at the time. I loved him & wanted us to work so I did what made him happy.
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After living with him for a few months I fell into a DEEP depression. All I did was go to work (I was a teacher at the time), take care of my baby girl (& his kids), cook, and clean a little here & there just to keep him happy, but mostly I laid in bed all day because I was mentally & emotionally drained.
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I was completely neglecting myself. Sometimes I wouldn’t even get outta bed to shower for DAYS at a time because I just didn’t have anything left in me. I was just so empty that cleaning myself wasn’t even a priority.
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As A WOMAN I was at the LOWEST of LOW
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Worst of all, I wasn’t keeping up with my health routine so the weight slowly starting coming back until I was right back where I started after alllll that hard work 😓
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When I told my so-called ‘boyfriend’ at the time I wanted to lose the weight again, he LAUGHED and said ‘you’re never going to lose weight. All you do is lay around.’ I was CRUSHED. That was IT for me. I knew I had to get away from him.
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He came home on night & I laid it on him with no warning ‘I can’t do this anymore...it’s OVER’...you can imagine how that went. Not so well.
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