I first started working with Betsy in 2020. At that point, I had two children and was hoping to get back to my pre-baby weight before trying for our third. She was awesome! The weight came off, and I was on a great path moving forward. I had taken what I had learned from her and applied it to my everyday life, which allowed me to keep the weight off. However, sometimes life throws unexpected challenges your way. As I mentioned before, I wanted to lose weight before trying for our third baby. We quickly became pregnant in June 2020, but several months into the pregnancy, I lost our first child. It was devastating. We tried again several months later and got pregnant with twins. Sadly, several months into that pregnancy, I lost our twins. My heart was broken, and I couldn’t imagine anything worse happening. I was wrong. Just ten days after the miscarriage of the twins, my mom went into the hospital. We were told she had COVID, and just 18 days later, I held her hand as she took her last breath. During her time in the hospital, we talked about my miscarriages, and I asked her if I should try one last time. She said, “Yes, I think God has a special little one He is sending your way.” Several months after my mother’s passing, we got pregnant with a baby boy. Up to this point, I had only been pregnant with girls. Our sweet boy was born on November 19, 2022!
After all of that, I was at the heaviest I had ever been. Six months after the arrival of my baby, I decided to reach back out to Betsy. We have been working together since last summer, and slowly but surely, the weight has come off. One thing I remember Betsy specifically telling me was that when everything else in my life felt out of control, I could control one thing: my weight. Betsy was motivating, uplifting, and kept me accountable. I am certainly still on my weight loss journey as well as my emotional one, but I am thankful to have Betsy there cheering me on.
