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Ababe08
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This is my story...growing up i never had weight issues, although i ate lots of sweets and ice cream..my favorite! my mom always told me it was going to catch up with me one day. And what do you know she was right! I didn't even realize it because i never had a problem with being over weight..that thought never even crossed my mind until senior year of high school. i saw a picture of myself and realized how big i had gotten! i probably weighed around 170 and yes that's not that over weight for my height..5'10..but for me it was! i decided i was going to lose weight!
I started eating healthier and running on the treadmill at home. Then i joined the gym and started going with friends and my mom. Then i started running outside as well. When i started losing weight it became an obsession. i started taking hydroxycut and waking up in the middle of the night just to do sit ups. i got down to around 148 and i looked great! i was completely obsessed with staying thin. I ate around 500 calories a day and always at least ran for 30 min a day.
After a bad break up with a boyfriend along with some health issues i began to become depressed.And alsothe dealth of my father( he died when i was 15) i think really sank in. i stopped working out and ate junk and the weight piled on. i had such a problem i let it affect my whole life. i sat on my moms couch and ate for almost a year.i stopped answering friends phone calls. i didn't want to even live anymore. i had seen many doctors..( i had been dragged to many doctors by my mom) and been on a couple different medications. i realized i couldn't live my life like this i had family who cared about me and i could live a good life if i wanted to. it was just up to me.
I decided to start by getting off the couch and losing some of this weight! i had ballooned up to 175! i had gained 25 pounds in less than a year! i began running..sometimes 8 miles a day and doing the Jillian micheals DVDs within a month or 2 i was back down to about 160-164..not quite sure i didn't like weighing myself(the scale scares me!) i figured if i could see the difference that was good enough. i began going out on dates and hanging with friends again! I got a job..and just tried to live a normal life since i hadn't for so long.
Its been about 2 years and im doing good still..even great i have a great bf who i live with and even just got back into school! i had lost my scholarship and dropped out of school during that depression. but just got my scholarship appealed and am going back in august for nursing! im really excited! my weights 171 today. I want to get to a healthy weight of 135 but for now my goal is to lose 20 lbs before school starts in middle august..that gives me 2 and a half months.
Let the journey begin!
This is my story...growing up i never had weight issues, although i ate lots of sweets and ice cream..my favorite! my mom always told me it was going to catch up with me one day. And what do you know she was right! I didn't even realize it because i never had a problem with being over weight..that thought never even crossed my mind until senior year of high school. i saw a picture of myself and realized how big i had gotten! i probably weighed around 170 and yes that's not that over weight for my height..5'10..but for me it was! i decided i was going to lose weight!
I started eating healthier and running on the treadmill at home. Then i joined the gym and started going with friends and my mom. Then i started running outside as well. When i started losing weight it became an obsession. i started taking hydroxycut and waking up in the middle of the night just to do sit ups. i got down to around 148 and i looked great! i was completely obsessed with staying thin. I ate around 500 calories a day and always at least ran for 30 min a day.
After a bad break up with a boyfriend along with some health issues i began to become depressed.And alsothe dealth of my father( he died when i was 15) i think really sank in. i stopped working out and ate junk and the weight piled on. i had such a problem i let it affect my whole life. i sat on my moms couch and ate for almost a year.i stopped answering friends phone calls. i didn't want to even live anymore. i had seen many doctors..( i had been dragged to many doctors by my mom) and been on a couple different medications. i realized i couldn't live my life like this i had family who cared about me and i could live a good life if i wanted to. it was just up to me.
I decided to start by getting off the couch and losing some of this weight! i had ballooned up to 175! i had gained 25 pounds in less than a year! i began running..sometimes 8 miles a day and doing the Jillian micheals DVDs within a month or 2 i was back down to about 160-164..not quite sure i didn't like weighing myself(the scale scares me!) i figured if i could see the difference that was good enough. i began going out on dates and hanging with friends again! I got a job..and just tried to live a normal life since i hadn't for so long.
Its been about 2 years and im doing good still..even great i have a great bf who i live with and even just got back into school! i had lost my scholarship and dropped out of school during that depression. but just got my scholarship appealed and am going back in august for nursing! im really excited! my weights 171 today. I want to get to a healthy weight of 135 but for now my goal is to lose 20 lbs before school starts in middle august..that gives me 2 and a half months.
Let the journey begin!
Frogged
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Welcome 
I read your story. I'm sorry to hear about your depression I can relate to your feeling of losing a parent. It's an impossible situation to handle when you're just a teenager and the only feelings you think you'll know from then on are anger and sadness.
But if you can find the courage to dig yourself out of that dark place, you will realize that life can offer you so much more and you can achieve anything you want
I'm glad you found the inner strength to overcome those issues and set yourself on a path to a better life! Everyone deserves to be happy
I wish you luck on your journey and be sure to let us know how you're doing (if you want - no pressure!)
I read your story. I'm sorry to hear about your depression
I can relate to your feeling of losing a parent. It's an impossible situation to handle when you're just a teenager and the only feelings you think you'll know from then on are anger and sadness.But if you can find the courage to dig yourself out of that dark place, you will realize that life can offer you so much more and you can achieve anything you want
I'm glad you found the inner strength to overcome those issues and set yourself on a path to a better life! Everyone deserves to be happy
I wish you luck on your journey and be sure to let us know how you're doing (if you want - no pressure!)