Hi,
I am a newcomer, and I am interested in starting a diary, I followed the instructions on the newcomer thread, but I do not see any tabs for a diary..is this a diary? but even if its not, this is a great place to start.
So I've been overweight for must of my life. It started when I was diagnosed with leukemia at a very young age (6), and the chemotherapy, and the fact that I love food, and the eating part led to an overweight childhood. For the longest time I wanted to loose weight, I remember consciously thinking about it and being insecure of my body/weight. For the longest time I wanted to loose weight, and eventually I did. In sophmore year of highschool, I said that enough was enough and I started taking the necessary steps to loose weight. I weighed 230 lbs as a 15 year old but I was also 6'1. Now I am 6'2 and weigh 195. Anyways with the help from my brothers, I was able to kickstart my weight loss journey, and loose almost 50 pounds. I was focused, and very proud of my accomplishment which is why I am including it here.
Furthermore, I want to do the same thing over again but I am sort of having the troubles loosing weight again, my goal is to loose 20 pounds by the end of summer which is august 25th for me, which I think is possible because I am working with my athletic trainer from high school, its summer afterall so I have a lot of time to be productive with my time like work out and hang with friends, and I am especially grateful to have found this forum because it offers great wisdom and advice for me when I am in need of it. Anyways I have had this "issue" with loosing weight, I started slowly gaining weight after I reached a point of 172 lbs, I think its been almost 2 yrs since I was 172. I was happy when I was at 180 lbs but the numbers on the scale kept on going up, and as result of the continual weight gain, I realized what it was..emotional/stressed eating and bored eating.
So I am happy that I have identified a part of the reason why I was gaining weight, I hope from being apart of the supportive forum, I can continue to learn about myself through peoples experience's and experiences of my own.
Thank you for reading this, and if you have any advice on beginning the weight loss journey, I'd love to hear it!!!
I am a newcomer, and I am interested in starting a diary, I followed the instructions on the newcomer thread, but I do not see any tabs for a diary..is this a diary? but even if its not, this is a great place to start.
So I've been overweight for must of my life. It started when I was diagnosed with leukemia at a very young age (6), and the chemotherapy, and the fact that I love food, and the eating part led to an overweight childhood. For the longest time I wanted to loose weight, I remember consciously thinking about it and being insecure of my body/weight. For the longest time I wanted to loose weight, and eventually I did. In sophmore year of highschool, I said that enough was enough and I started taking the necessary steps to loose weight. I weighed 230 lbs as a 15 year old but I was also 6'1. Now I am 6'2 and weigh 195. Anyways with the help from my brothers, I was able to kickstart my weight loss journey, and loose almost 50 pounds. I was focused, and very proud of my accomplishment which is why I am including it here.
Furthermore, I want to do the same thing over again but I am sort of having the troubles loosing weight again, my goal is to loose 20 pounds by the end of summer which is august 25th for me, which I think is possible because I am working with my athletic trainer from high school, its summer afterall so I have a lot of time to be productive with my time like work out and hang with friends, and I am especially grateful to have found this forum because it offers great wisdom and advice for me when I am in need of it. Anyways I have had this "issue" with loosing weight, I started slowly gaining weight after I reached a point of 172 lbs, I think its been almost 2 yrs since I was 172. I was happy when I was at 180 lbs but the numbers on the scale kept on going up, and as result of the continual weight gain, I realized what it was..emotional/stressed eating and bored eating.
So I am happy that I have identified a part of the reason why I was gaining weight, I hope from being apart of the supportive forum, I can continue to learn about myself through peoples experience's and experiences of my own.
Thank you for reading this, and if you have any advice on beginning the weight loss journey, I'd love to hear it!!!