{"id":698,"date":"2018-03-05T06:57:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T12:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2018-03-09T18:00:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T00:00:48","slug":"had-a-goal-stayed-the-course-made-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Had a goal! Stayed the Course! Made it Happen!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"699\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/?attachment_id=699\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.becominglisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tri-finish.jpg?fit=480%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;KODAK EASYSHARE Z915 DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1347192219&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;8.8&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"tri finish\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.becominglisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tri-finish.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.becominglisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tri-finish.jpg?fit=480%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-699\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.becominglisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tri-finish.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.becominglisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tri-finish.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.becominglisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tri-finish.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Over the past 3 years of helping people get healthier and happier with Plexus &#8211; the biggest questions I get asked are When will I lose weight? and How long does it take?<\/p>\n<p>I answer honestly &#8211; I have NO IDEA! That&#8217;s right &#8211; I don&#8217;t have a clue! I don&#8217;t know what your body needs most. I don&#8217;t know what your body needs to heal first. What I can tell you is that if you use the products consistently, drink your water, and we work together for troubleshooting and tweaking &#8211; IT WILL WORK! I have seen too much success and too much life change for anyone to convince me otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>I also know that these are plant based supplements which means they take time &#8211; 1 month for every year of &#8220;issue&#8221;! Are you willing to go the distance to have a life you never imagined? I was! I was desperate for something to work when I started on Plexus at the suggestion of my neurologist. He had seen it work for others and I was a tough case and traditional medicine wasn&#8217;t doing diddly-squat to relieve my symptoms!<\/p>\n<p>I had been sick and had health issues my entire life &#8211; starting with pneumonia at 6 weeks old and migraines at 6 years old &#8211; over 40 years of sickness! Then throw in all kinds of fun from genetic auto-immune yuck and bizarre allergy issues and life was one big blur of doctor visits!<\/p>\n<p>2012 I thought I had finally gotten my health under control! Over a 10 year window through diet and exercise &#8211; I lost 100 pounds and found out triathlons were actually fun! I got a PR for an olympic distance triathlon (that&#8217;s me in my victory pose after the race) and was tweaking nutrition to be ready for my next race then BAM! I got taken completely out by my neurological issues &#8211; as in ICU taken out. The medications and treatments that saved my life also caused me to gain close to 30 pounds within a month AND they didn\u2019t alleviate the pain or help with any of the symptoms I was having.<\/p>\n<p>It was awful &#8211; 5 different doctors over 2 years and none of them had a clue on how to help me because none of them could specifically say what was wrong or what had caused the sudden implosion my body was fighting through. I was having difficulty walking, talking, swallowing, moving all with a deep daily head pain. So I really was desperate for anything to work.<\/p>\n<p>My Plexus HEALTH Victories:<br \/>\nMonth 1 &#8211; my puffiness improved and I went from a tight 16 to a comfortable 14<br \/>\nMonth 2 &#8211; my daily pain was consistently less<br \/>\nMonth 4 &#8211; I had my first pain free day in over 2 years<br \/>\nMonth 9 &#8211; my BP was normal again<br \/>\nMonth 13 &#8211; my bloodwork started to change<br \/>\nMonth 15 &#8211; I was off all medications<br \/>\nMonth 21 &#8211; another pants size down to a snug 12<br \/>\nMonth 29 &#8211; hit 5 pounds of weight loss<br \/>\nMonth 35 &#8211; only 1 number out of normal range on the blood work but my cholesterol ratio is fully normal<br \/>\nMonth 38 &#8211; 10 pounds weight lost<br \/>\nMonth 39 &#8211; 15 pounds down<br \/>\nMonth 40 &#8211; TODAY I hit my triathlon weight<\/p>\n<p>So yes <strong>40 months in and I finally hit my first weight loss goal!<\/strong> Was it worth the wait? Absolutely! Have I reached my optimum health? I don\u2019t think so! I don\u2019t believe my body ever had a healthy gut so there is no way for me to know what total health looks or feels like \u2026 the journey isn\u2019t over and I can\u2019t wait to see what happens next!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharinghealthandhappiness.com\">Sharing Health and Happiness<\/a> is what I am all about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 3 years of helping people get healthier and happier with Plexus &#8211; the biggest questions I get asked are When will I lose weight? and How long does it take? I answer honestly &#8211; I have NO IDEA! That&#8217;s right &#8211; I don&#8217;t have a clue! 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