I've lurked around this sub for a while but today I think I finally broke.
A little about me:
I'm 29 (30 in September), starting law school in the fall, and a mom of two via c-section. I marched drum corps for 5 years which is basically marching band on steroids. You eat, sleep, breathe marching band, tour around the country for 4 months, and lose an ungodly amount of weight just from sheer exhaustion and constant movement. When you're 17-21 it's awesome because you're in the best shape of your life but as soon as you become too old to continue you realize you really have no idea what your adult body is supposed to look like. I'll look at photos from my marching days and realize that I was super fit and skinny but that's not realistic anymore.
On top of that I was sexually assaulted in 2013 and gained 30 pounds as a way to "protect" myself from having it happen again. Add two pregnancies on top of it and I'm now 240lbs and absolutely miserable. I'm the largest person in my family and my mother has made it her hobby to project her body issues onto me which is really messing with me.
I guess what I'm looking for is someone else to say that this really is possible, that it's possible to lose the weight (goal is 180 which I don't think is unreasonable), that it's possible to ignore the naysayers in my family, that it's possible to let go of all this weight and shame.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/mn61m9/time_to_stop_messing_around/
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