22 years ago...
I was a brand new nurse,
picking up my set of scrubs from the hospital laundry.
I asked for a medium...

It All Started With the Free Food...

    When I started working as a nurse,
I never brought my own food.

There was lots of free food at the hospital.
     Biscuits and donuts were always laid out
 on the table every morning.

I started having breakfast at work,
and ate one sausage-n-biscuit every morning.
Then a couple hours later,
I would snack on a donut.

I didn't feel bad eating it,
because this food was going to be thrown out anyhow.

The first year, when I picked up my new scrubs, I went up a size.
No biggie, it's only one size, I thought.

I can get back into a medium easily.
I will start eating healthy next week.

Over the next couple of years, however,
I noticed I ate more and more of the donuts...
and sausage-n-biscuits...instead of one, I ate two.

Until one day...
I was handed XL scrubs.
1X scrubs hurt.

3 years later, they gave me 2X.

One day, we did another gastric sleeve surgery,
for which I did the anesthesia...
I realized, I was bigger than the patient on the table.

So, I KNEW, I had to do something...

I wasn't ready to overhaul everything...
So, I started by swapping out my snacks...

I started by ditching the donuts
and bringing my own snacks...

That worked so well, that after one year,
I went down a size...

I created a Snack Swap Guide