Kim Reker 2.0....The Re-Build, from dust to muscle

 

About two years ago I embarked on a weighloss journey, to become fit, and have fun, to hike, and sing with the birds, and become one with myself, ok the birds may be over the top, but the squirells really do throw things at your from the trees! Prior to doing this weightloss Journey, my husband and I moved straight across Canada from Ontario to the West. Ontario a place where I frequented exercise, running races including a 1/2 marathon, and playing co-ed soccer.....I was a regular go get'em spry twenty year old female.

Getting Healthy..... this did not happen....I began my jouney by losing 60 pounds in a very healthy manner, but then pain began, not related to my recent health and weight loss, it was an underlying issue since my early twenties. My husband began to need to drive me to the emergency department 40 minutes away, 2-3 times a week with unbearable pain in my colon, which we now know was a massive fissue. We tried many things to relax the muscle to return blood flow for healing, from creams and nitrogen gel...which really really burns...to bow tox injections to relax the sphincter muscle, not my scrunched up face, & to return blood flow to the areas. We also tried scoring the muscles and trying to create the skin to re grow, and heal, cutting one of the sphinctor muscles to relax the area, but I just was not healing.

At one point my stitches ripped out given the nature of the area, and we thought, this is never going to work. I was on many medications, many of which made me tired, some were narcotics that didn't make me myself anymore, and added to my inactivity, some of which caused me to gain weight, alot of weight infact all my weight back and then some......and two years later I am back again with my story of how I didn't lose weight.

This is a story of how I gained my weight back, and became very sick. I know this illness is a life long battle to deal with, and all though non life threatening, it's a series of the ways that my body works and functions that contributes to my colon/rectal centre just not wanting to work properly all the time. We now know through trial and error things that went wrong and didn't work, in the end I wasn't healing because of an undiagnosed episode of C.Difficile that I likely caught at one of many appointments to doctors, surgeons, and emergency room trips. I most likely had it from 10 months to a year before diagnosed. The doctors were amazing, and this was not their fault.

I consider myself one of the lucky ones, I am blessed to not have a life threatening illness, or a disease that would take from my life anymore than this has. I have now been able to ween off all pain medications, and am to the point of beginning exercsie again! Many people suffer with worse diseases such as colitis, chrones disease, chronic bowel impactment, an aray of bowel issues, stomach ulcers, colon cancer, and I could go on.

What have I learned from this journey? It really is true how the old saying goes..."What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." I believe that with my whole heart. My husband and I have a new trust and relationship for the amount of times I needed to lean on him for everything I needed done, and to my amazing friends and family who did the same for Curtis in his stead. God will not give us more than we can handle, it seemed he came very close a few times, but we came through. 

Now it is my turn to make it right, to let others lean on me, and give back to them in the way I know how. Your body is the only one that God made you, your are unique, you are your own mold, and you are one of a kind. Exercise, eat right, and treat your body how you would treat your children, or our ever aging/changing planet, and this is how you should treat yourself. We are not garbage disposales made to eat fake food with plastics, MSG's, hamburgers should not cost $1.99, what filler did they add to that to make it $1.99, if its left over kiddie meal parts, I do not want to know....but you might!

I want to inspire, and teach people to believe in themselves and what they can become. It is not just about weight loss, but this is about living a healthy life, and leaving behind your imprint for the next generation. In the words of a famous You Tuber-Roman Atwood, "You are Beautiful, You are one of a Kind....Smile More." and in the words of this You Tuber, E.A, Piano Teacher, Wife, Daughter, Aunt and Friend, join me on a journey of taking care of your body, your life, eating cleaner and exercise is all it takes, leave the excuses for the garbage can, because you only have one you, and you can do anything!

Sincerly,

Kim Reker

Ready to lose weight and take names.....