Life turned upside down

One year ago tomorrow my season of the Biggest Loser premiered.  WOW…what a year it has been.  I sort of fell off the face of the earth for a while.  I was not posting blogs as often, not logging on to Facebook as frequently and I have been getting many questions about how I am doing.  I figured there was no better way to answer that question then in blog.

Life has pretty much been turned upside down.  As many of you may know, my Husband Nick and I received the amazing news that we were expecting our first child.  We were over come with joy.  Everything in life changes when you are expecting a child.    Things you once desired are no longer a priority and you start looking at life with a realistic perspective.

A little over two weeks after finding out we had our first child on the way my husband worked his last day of work.  The company he worked for the last 11+ years decided to close down their Appleton, WI facility.  Unfortunately this is an all too common occurrence in todays economy.  The only problem is Nick carried our health insurance and with me being self employed I do not have the option of taking over that responsibility.  So we figured…OK…we will have to take advantage of COBRA until Nick finds another job.  Well, when the paperwork came in and I took a look at the COBRA payment my jaw hit the floor.  I cannot believe how expensive it is.  That combined with the fact that it is not very easy to find a good job today has added a lot of stress.

As if being pregnant and my husband losing his job was not enough my business partners sat down with me on a Monday and pretty much told me that they felt it would be best for all of us if I dissolved my ownership in the business on the first of the year (which just happened to be that Friday). Although since I have returned from the show we have talked about this situation, I just did not expect the timing.  I felt blind sided and hurt yet there is a small part of me that understands their side.  Being on the show has put a huge toll on the business.  I was gone for 5 months while filming the show and I was borderline useless for about 3 months following that (this was the time between coming home from the show but before finale).  I could go on about this forever.

I am hopeful that everything will work out.  Nick and I are both diligently working to make sure we can bring our child into a stable and secure environment.  In terms of health, fitness and weight loss…that is an entirely different blog for another day.

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