"Everyone kept telling me to lose the weight. I was already trying."
Hey, I'm Liya.
Two years ago I was 230 pounds and couldn't walk five minutes without looking
for somewhere to sit.
Every doctor said the same four words.
Just lose the weight.
I was trying.
That was the part nobody heard.
I'd start walking, my back would give out
around minute six, and I'd be on the
couch for two days.
Eventually I did lose it — the hard way, on a diet so strict I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
It took two years.
And here's what nobody warned me about:
my back hurt the whole way through.
Every pound I lost, I was still standing
on a spine that had been carrying too much for too long.
Losing weight is slow.
My back needed help that now!
So I found a chiropractor who actually listened, and we built Elva