Hi guys! First post here! It’s nice to meet you!
As of last year March 14, 2019, I was at my highest weight of 268 pounds. (I’m female, 5’4”) and I was having mild health issues that doctors predicted weren’t going to get any better if I kept gaining. Now I weigh 239 pounds and it feels great!
Last year, I was totally hopeless. My relationship with food was terrible. I ate out of pure boredom, which was often, and I had very little self-control. I didn’t exercise. I hated exercise and it seemed like it hated me. I always felt exhausted and achy even just climbing the stairs.
My waning health prompted me to start Weight Watchers and I wish I could tell you the journey was easy, but it wasn’t. Weight Watchers did not make me feel proud for losing weight. I felt like I was in a competition and every week I compared myself to the other people in the room. I restricted calories and changed the way I ate, and incorporated more walking into my weekly activities, but each time the scale told me I hadn’t lost a single pound, I felt like a huge failure.
Eventually, I decided enough was enough and that if losing the weight this way was going to be at a cost to my mental health, then it wasn’t worth it and in June of 2019 I walked away from WW.
I was lost again. In three months I had only lost 5 pounds and yet, the journey to goal felt like it had lengthened in that time.
(No hate to WW, but it just wasn’t for me)
Fast forward to now and I have a job that demands I be very active. I went from getting about 100-500 steps a day, to 3500-11000 steps a day in counting.
I have learned that food doesn’t have to all be eaten at once and I can pace myself and stop when I’m full. I’ve learned to trust my gut!
I’ve noticed now that I look much better in my clothes, my waist has become a little more defined and my butt has been more rounded out. I still have a long way to go, but the changes so far are quite encouraging.
I also get a lot more attention from guys now, as it seems the more confident I am, the more they notice me. (It doesn’t really matter, but now I like that I have options)
My goal weight is 190/200 pounds, and I have a strong feeling by next March I would have reached it.
I don’t really have any advice or words of wisdom except, that most of the time, it feels like I’m just winging this and I used to feel bad that I was winging this and not following a hard regimen or diet or something, but I realize my body doesn’t like to feel intimidated or like it’s failing and to be honest, I love my body. It has survived so much! So I don’t care if I’m doing this whole living and losing weight unorthodox, as long as I’m being healthy and safe then who cares?
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