I'm in my late 30s and I've struggled with my weight (and my body in general) since I was a young child. For most of my adult life I have worn XXL t-shirts. There was a time when I hit 320 lbs. about 10 years ago when I would start stretching my shirts out as much as possible and would usually always wear a XXXL hoodie because none of my shirts fit, but a couple of years ago I started losing some weight until eventually I was able to buy some new XXL shirts that fit. Then my shirts started getting a bit looser than I had ever experienced before. I bought some XL t-shirts out of excitement but found that they were still too small, but from that point on I started buying new t-shirts I would like in both XL and XXL so I could have one that fit now and have one that would fit when I lost some more weight.
Eventually I moved and had some big changes with my living situation and I started regaining all of the weight I had lost; then covid struck along with my recurring depression and binge eating and I reached 320 lbs. for a second time in my life. None of my XXL shirts would fit anymore and so I bought some new shirts, this time ordering the same shirt in XL, XXL, and XXXL (which is probably a bit overkill, and definitely 3x more than I should be spending on a new shirt). The last few months I have started to make a habit of getting at least 10,000 steps in every day, doing yoga, going to a few gyms using free trial guest passes to see which gym I like best, worked with a physical therapist to find appropriate exercises for me and she has given me a list of machines to use when I go to the gym. I've also stopped eating candy and vegan junk food and have started eating much healthier cutting out most of the heavily processed foods from my diet and eating a simple whole-foods plant-based diet instead of a vegan junk food diet. I also noticed that my XXXL t-shirts started to get looser as the number on the scale has slowly continued to go down.
This morning I weighed in at 275 lbs. and I tried on one of my XXL t-shirts and it fit! I tried on a few others to make sure it wasn't just the cut of that particular shirt and most of the shirts I tried fit as well (there were a few that were still a bit snug). I have plenty of XXL t-shirts that fit me fine so I filled up a bag with all of my XXXL t-shirts and I am taking them to my local Goodwill to donate them in the morning. It feels so good to be back into XXL clothes, but even more so I feel much healthier eating less processed foods. I still have a lot of work to do to get to my ideal healthy weight, and I'm also trying to learn to love and accept myself and my body where it is now on the journey, but this victory felt really huge and I wanted to share it somewhere.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/oxl6oo/my_tshirt_story/
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