Hello all!
About 2 1/2 years ago, I started the greatest journey of my life. I started to lose weight. The summer before my senior year of high school, at 5'4" and weighing 191 lbs was not where I wanted to be. I randomly decided that I wanted to track what I ate, to see if that actually helped to lose weight. Somewhat on accident, I wrote down the calories that I was consuming, and thus began my weight-loss adventure.
I was a vegetarian that did not eat her fruits and vegetables, but once I started to realize that they had few calories and filled you up, that was almost all I ate.
Not even realizing it, I had started my calorie count at about 1200 calories a day. By the time November came around, I was obsessed with what I ate, eating no more then 800 calories most days. It was a really dangerous road for me, and I finally snapped out of that mode by the time Thanksgiving came around and I had my first real meal in a long time.
I started to eat well again, planning a few cheat days for the holidays, mostly because I was going to Germany for the first time and I wanted to enjoy everything that was offered to me.
I did well after I got back from Germany, up until March. I met a guy, who became my first serious boyfriend. By that point I had actually gotten all the way down to 129 lbs. After I met him, I slowly gained another 6 pounds, and would have gained more if it wasn't for the fact that I started to starve myself after I binged. This went along all summer.
I finally went to college, where the food was gross and I hardly ate. I ended back down to about 132, but I went home on weekends, so I constantly gained and lost weight for the entire semester.
I ended up breaking up with my boyfriend before the spring semester started, and when I went back to school, I was in a group of girls who were all trying to keep a good weight. After a few weeks, I met my current boyfriend and his friends, and did good weight wise around them, even though we went on late runs to Walmart and Taco Bell for food.
By the time summer rolled around, I had weighed about 143, which I wasn't too happy about, but I was so busy and put into a position where I couldn't care about what I was eating (worked 40 something hours a week, and the only meal I could eat between two jobs was what one job offered, which nothing they had was actually healthy).
As the summer ended I was weighing about 149, and I was trying my best to lose the weight, but the constant stress of my classes, I was unable to. Over the winter break, I went way too crazy, and ended up in the low 150s. I have been trying to lose that weight on and off. I finally decided that I am done with that. I am going to lose the weight so that I am back down to my slender self at 130, just in time for summer.
I have started to eat more fiber, more fruits, more vegetables. I am working out more (soccer and scuba) and once the summer starts, I am going to try and swim at least 3 times a week. I want to look and feel great, just for myself. I loved what I was like when I was 130 and I want to feel that again.
About 2 1/2 years ago, I started the greatest journey of my life. I started to lose weight. The summer before my senior year of high school, at 5'4" and weighing 191 lbs was not where I wanted to be. I randomly decided that I wanted to track what I ate, to see if that actually helped to lose weight. Somewhat on accident, I wrote down the calories that I was consuming, and thus began my weight-loss adventure.
I was a vegetarian that did not eat her fruits and vegetables, but once I started to realize that they had few calories and filled you up, that was almost all I ate.
Not even realizing it, I had started my calorie count at about 1200 calories a day. By the time November came around, I was obsessed with what I ate, eating no more then 800 calories most days. It was a really dangerous road for me, and I finally snapped out of that mode by the time Thanksgiving came around and I had my first real meal in a long time.
I started to eat well again, planning a few cheat days for the holidays, mostly because I was going to Germany for the first time and I wanted to enjoy everything that was offered to me.
I did well after I got back from Germany, up until March. I met a guy, who became my first serious boyfriend. By that point I had actually gotten all the way down to 129 lbs. After I met him, I slowly gained another 6 pounds, and would have gained more if it wasn't for the fact that I started to starve myself after I binged. This went along all summer.
I finally went to college, where the food was gross and I hardly ate. I ended back down to about 132, but I went home on weekends, so I constantly gained and lost weight for the entire semester.
I ended up breaking up with my boyfriend before the spring semester started, and when I went back to school, I was in a group of girls who were all trying to keep a good weight. After a few weeks, I met my current boyfriend and his friends, and did good weight wise around them, even though we went on late runs to Walmart and Taco Bell for food.
By the time summer rolled around, I had weighed about 143, which I wasn't too happy about, but I was so busy and put into a position where I couldn't care about what I was eating (worked 40 something hours a week, and the only meal I could eat between two jobs was what one job offered, which nothing they had was actually healthy).
As the summer ended I was weighing about 149, and I was trying my best to lose the weight, but the constant stress of my classes, I was unable to. Over the winter break, I went way too crazy, and ended up in the low 150s. I have been trying to lose that weight on and off. I finally decided that I am done with that. I am going to lose the weight so that I am back down to my slender self at 130, just in time for summer.
I have started to eat more fiber, more fruits, more vegetables. I am working out more (soccer and scuba) and once the summer starts, I am going to try and swim at least 3 times a week. I want to look and feel great, just for myself. I loved what I was like when I was 130 and I want to feel that again.
