Empowering Women to Take Control: A Journey to Fulfillment

Let’s talk about snacking🍫🍟🍕🍭🥧🧁 Snacking is a time when you aren’t too hungry but you would like something to chew or just something in your stomach for that particular moment in time. I use to snack heavy, big time, my snacking would consist of candy 🍬 chips, cookies 🍪 pies 🥧 cake 🍰 which are all sugar filled.  Now I’m not going to tell you how addictive sugar is because I’m pretty sure you already know that and have heard it a million times,  it I am going to tell you how hard it is for your stomach and your overall body to be be able to break those processed foods down😩 So as I continue in my journey I began to snack healthier, I knew that I only wanted sugar and I craved for sugar so bad, I had to think 🤔 what could give me a satisfying feeling and help my cravings, for me it was fruit 🍉 🍓🍇🍊🍌 and as time went on I learned how to incorporate other healthy snacks that would make me happy 😃  Like Hummus, cheese 🧀, homemade baked pita chips, granola, nuts 🥜

Sometimes I think my journey is in vain, and then there are other times when I feel my Journey is great, but overall it is am amazing journey to travel. There will always be ups and down as you embark on your health and fitness journey. I remember there were times where I would just cry my eyes out because I was just too fat and the weight seemed to not want to go away, there were days when I knew without a shadow of a doubt that I was sabotaging my own journey, It seem to be harder and harder to keep the weight off, my reality was it was hard keeping the weight off and that was because I had a weakness for sweets, or fatty foods, especially cake, cake was my favorite snack, you give me a piece of chocolate cake and I was good to go. I would eat that cake and be just as happy and content as I was eating, but once the cake was gone, my self respect was at its lowest. my emotions would get the best of me, I would feel so bad and defeated and along came all the self doubt and my emotion