musicalgirl
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Hey everyone on the internet!!!
I'm Musicalgirl and I finally decided to post all of this.
My story is a lot like many people here. Growing up, I was always the chubby kid who ate their feelings. My dad would praise me for eating and look down on healthy eating as "weak" in way.
After my parent's divorce, I lived with my mom and she became very ill. At 13 I was responsible for the grocery shopping and feeding myself. Everyone knows that if you give a 13 year old free reign on their food, they wont eat anything but pizza, ha ha. Because of this, I got bigger and bigger. When I was sad, I would eat, happy; eat, bored, eat. Everything ended with a cheeseburger and it took its toll.
By 22 I was 280 pounds at 5' 6" and knew I needed a change. I changed my diet and started exercising.
This is me around 260, I hid from the camera when I was at my heaviest, 280, so I don't think I have any pics of that.
During: In these pictures, I am at 215-220
Nothing says weight loss like an extreme tree-lean, amiright??
I still have a long way to go, but I'm showing progress. I look a side/front/back underwear picture at 255 and then again at 220, but I am having trouble with the computer they are on, so I will post them ASAP.
For exercise, I did the couch-to-5k program and found out that I actually realllly love to run. All this time I thought I hated it. Sometimes you can really surprise yourself.
I've been lifting weights, running and taking a variety of classes offered at my gym; yoga, zumba, step, etc. I found out that the gym can be fun, as long as you don't care what people think of you, ha ha. The first step was the hardest, then I realized that I really don't care if someone thinks I'm out of shape, or too big, because I'm on my way and I don't need to listen to their crap, ha ha ha!
My nutrition has changed dramatically as well. I've always had digestive issues, but instead of avoiding the foods that I know I can't eat, I would just eat more of them and get sick......makes sense, RIGHT!? *shakes head*
I've cut out dairy and wheat (which I am allergic too) as well as processed sugar, alcohol, fried food and red meat. I don't follow any specific diet plan, I just look at what I'm about to eat and say "now is this REALLLYYY something I should be eating?" I always know the answer (whether I like it or not).
I fell off the horse for a few months and gained back 10 pounds, and before it can get any worse, I'm jumping back in the game. I will NOT let myself go back.
Now that I am posting here, I plan on having picture updates (the scary underwear kind) once a month to track my progress better, as well as post my measurements.
Highest weight - 280, measurements unknown.
Start weight - 255, measurements 47-44-53 (May 2011)
Current weight - 215, measurments 41-37-48 (January 2012)
I'm Musicalgirl and I finally decided to post all of this.
My story is a lot like many people here. Growing up, I was always the chubby kid who ate their feelings. My dad would praise me for eating and look down on healthy eating as "weak" in way.
After my parent's divorce, I lived with my mom and she became very ill. At 13 I was responsible for the grocery shopping and feeding myself. Everyone knows that if you give a 13 year old free reign on their food, they wont eat anything but pizza, ha ha. Because of this, I got bigger and bigger. When I was sad, I would eat, happy; eat, bored, eat. Everything ended with a cheeseburger and it took its toll.
By 22 I was 280 pounds at 5' 6" and knew I needed a change. I changed my diet and started exercising.
This is me around 260, I hid from the camera when I was at my heaviest, 280, so I don't think I have any pics of that.
During: In these pictures, I am at 215-220
Nothing says weight loss like an extreme tree-lean, amiright??
I still have a long way to go, but I'm showing progress. I look a side/front/back underwear picture at 255 and then again at 220, but I am having trouble with the computer they are on, so I will post them ASAP.
For exercise, I did the couch-to-5k program and found out that I actually realllly love to run. All this time I thought I hated it. Sometimes you can really surprise yourself.
I've been lifting weights, running and taking a variety of classes offered at my gym; yoga, zumba, step, etc. I found out that the gym can be fun, as long as you don't care what people think of you, ha ha. The first step was the hardest, then I realized that I really don't care if someone thinks I'm out of shape, or too big, because I'm on my way and I don't need to listen to their crap, ha ha ha!
My nutrition has changed dramatically as well. I've always had digestive issues, but instead of avoiding the foods that I know I can't eat, I would just eat more of them and get sick......makes sense, RIGHT!? *shakes head*
I've cut out dairy and wheat (which I am allergic too) as well as processed sugar, alcohol, fried food and red meat. I don't follow any specific diet plan, I just look at what I'm about to eat and say "now is this REALLLYYY something I should be eating?" I always know the answer (whether I like it or not).
I fell off the horse for a few months and gained back 10 pounds, and before it can get any worse, I'm jumping back in the game. I will NOT let myself go back.
Now that I am posting here, I plan on having picture updates (the scary underwear kind) once a month to track my progress better, as well as post my measurements.
Highest weight - 280, measurements unknown.
Start weight - 255, measurements 47-44-53 (May 2011)
Current weight - 215, measurments 41-37-48 (January 2012)
