lauraine07
New member
hello!
i've just spent the last couple minutes staring at this screen, wondering what to begin with. it feels as though some of the biggest trials of my life are rushing through my head at ultimate speed.
i suppose i'll start with generic information, but i'd rather not get into the specifics. i'm 20 years old, currently studying music education in colorado. it's actually finals week, and i should be studying...but at the moment i'm not. this website came completely at random but weight loss is a huge goal of mine for the summer--as well as a healthy lifestyle for the future--and i think this forum might just be the trick. it's something i haven't tried after all...
i'm going to start from the beginning. obviously, weight wasn't something i was aware of when i was very little, but it's been a common issue in my life since i was about 6 years old. i've always been bigger, but i don't consider my weight at the time to have been abnormal because i was taller as a child and i think my proportions carried differently from other children. however, this is something children at a young age don't seem to understand and i was teased. i also cannot recall a time in my life when i wasn't fascinated with food. at one point i remember eating my grandpa's radishes mistaking them for candy (yeah, it wasn't fun) out of our fridge. i wasn't supposed to eat them--they were my grandpa's after all, but i wanted them SO bad. this inability to resist food has been a common theme often throughout my life, and maybe that's common for many people, but i've been ashamed to admit it.
i believe my parents did a great job in raising my sister and i in a healthy environment. i was often jealous of my friend's school lunches--oreos, capri suns and other goodies all over the place, and i would get the same old balanced meal every day. i'm thankful for it now but i didn't understand it when i was younger. my sister and i were also involved in sports, something else i'm thankful for now.
i feel this is something worth mentioning--when my sister was 6 years old, she was diagnosed with celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder of the small intestine. she's gluten intolerant, so things with wheat were somewhat uncommon in our house, and essentially eliminated many junk foods.
i'm cutting this short for studying, but plan to finish in the near future!
i've just spent the last couple minutes staring at this screen, wondering what to begin with. it feels as though some of the biggest trials of my life are rushing through my head at ultimate speed.
i suppose i'll start with generic information, but i'd rather not get into the specifics. i'm 20 years old, currently studying music education in colorado. it's actually finals week, and i should be studying...but at the moment i'm not. this website came completely at random but weight loss is a huge goal of mine for the summer--as well as a healthy lifestyle for the future--and i think this forum might just be the trick. it's something i haven't tried after all...
i'm going to start from the beginning. obviously, weight wasn't something i was aware of when i was very little, but it's been a common issue in my life since i was about 6 years old. i've always been bigger, but i don't consider my weight at the time to have been abnormal because i was taller as a child and i think my proportions carried differently from other children. however, this is something children at a young age don't seem to understand and i was teased. i also cannot recall a time in my life when i wasn't fascinated with food. at one point i remember eating my grandpa's radishes mistaking them for candy (yeah, it wasn't fun) out of our fridge. i wasn't supposed to eat them--they were my grandpa's after all, but i wanted them SO bad. this inability to resist food has been a common theme often throughout my life, and maybe that's common for many people, but i've been ashamed to admit it.
i believe my parents did a great job in raising my sister and i in a healthy environment. i was often jealous of my friend's school lunches--oreos, capri suns and other goodies all over the place, and i would get the same old balanced meal every day. i'm thankful for it now but i didn't understand it when i was younger. my sister and i were also involved in sports, something else i'm thankful for now.
i feel this is something worth mentioning--when my sister was 6 years old, she was diagnosed with celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder of the small intestine. she's gluten intolerant, so things with wheat were somewhat uncommon in our house, and essentially eliminated many junk foods.
i'm cutting this short for studying, but plan to finish in the near future!
