The beginning of Take Shape for Life, for me

Can I show you a non-scale epiphany and victory? Life has been a little rough the last couple of years and Jan-May of this year was some of the roughest. I knew I was stress eating but it was too hard to think about anything but the things happening at the time. I knew by March I'd hit bottom but couldn't do anything about it at the time, and I knew I didn't want to try anything again that would be a temporary fix for the eating/weight issues. By late April I'd made a decision to look into Dr. A's stuff because of Kara's and Jennifer's success. I knew I couldn't depend on package foods long term and read about Dr. A's thoughts on food. I ordered his "Habit's" book in May and almost immediately began implementing the eating on there, well actually a little before that because of some stuff Kara posted in the files section on another fb page. But as I looked at my own profile picture I realized that I didn't really look like the same person as in Feb and that it wasn't just the new haircut. It caused me to go through some pics that I took of myself and never posted because I could see just how unhealthy I was looking/feeling. I know we are often our own worst critic with pictures and stuff so I decided look a them closer and I can see the healing taking place with the change in diet. I'm only a couple of weeks into the 5&1 but I realized that the results had actually began to show just by following the 9" plate "rule" and eating the kinds of food Dr. A suggested. I think I'm mostly feeling thankful for being introduced to this program and I hope to be able to introduce others to it as well.