My name is Carly and I am a 33 year old female. For years I suffered from an inflammatory disease called Endometriosis.
The year of 2025 was the worst year for my health all stemming from this horrific monster. In the summer of 2025, I was finally able to have excision surgery and they removed all of it. Eight months into recovery and miraculously, I have been chronic pain free since.
But, what I’ve learned over my journey and health scare is that recovery from a disease like this isn’t done by just removing the problem.
It’s also recovering from the mental health of it as a whole. It’s trying to remember who you were and doing everything you can to get back to that version of yourself; who you were before something sucked the life out of you.
I knew that I had a lot of work to do on my own to get there. Through my recovery before starting this program, I absolutely hated myself. I was depressed for weeks from Christmas into January, mentally drained with how I looked and felt. After surgery, I didn’t take care of my body. While I was free from pain, I didn’t realize how much I continued to contribute to the inflammation, and damage and that was all on me.
My first step was to start taking care of myself better, physically and mentally, and the only way that I knew how was if I had some help. This led me to joining Solera and working with Melanie and the Metabolic Balance Program. This program consists of watching the way I ate, when I ate, how much I ate (by weighing everything), what I ate together, tracked my water intake, fought through the times that I was hungry, rebalanced my priorities to take time and meal prep and having to make difficult choices to disengage in social events that could possibly get me off track.
For me, it was me against me.
The first two weeks, which is the most restrictive I have ever been in my life, were the hardest. There were many tears, and repetitive thoughts of “what am I doing?” And I won’t hide the fact that there has been some mishaps and falling off the guidelines in the later stages; but the reminders of why I was doing it kept me pushing forward and getting back on track. I am so glad that I did and continue to do so, knowing that this program isn’t just about losing weight for me and getting back to loving myself in my own body and fitting into my clothes comfortably again. It’s about gaining confidence, self-love and trust in yourself again, being pushed to your limits knowing that you are much stronger than you realize.
I’ve regained energy that I thought would never return.
Joy has been restored in the small things, and overall, I am a much happier human being; motivated and strong and that’s because I feel better, healthier, renewed.
I give my thanks to this program, to Melanie for being an amazing guide throughout, and most importantly to myself to have the courage and positivity to keep moving forward and bringing life back into myself.