I have been waiting for this for the last 10 years.
I went from morbidly obese with a BMI of 40.5 to a healthy weight and BMI of 24.5.
I had so much weight to lose that it terrified me and frustrated me and kept me from starting over and over again because I was so overwhelmed.
I lost 107 lbs over the course of 4 years to make this possible.
There have been slip-ups of course along the way and there were definitely times I fell into old patterns and restricting and bad habits, but I have done this 99.9% through healthy eating, exercise, counting calories and dedication. Picking myself up over and over again even after I failed and messed up. It wasn’t an easy or perfect journey.
I lost weight even through Thanksgiving weekend, not depriving myself, eating tofurkey roast with stuffing and mashed potatoes and chocolate brownies. :)
I wasn’t overweight as a child though I was close, because I always played sports. In my teen years when I quit sports, I became obese. I have not been a “normal weight” since 2005, after I lost weight the first time, which was extremely brief because I was suffering from anorexia and when i started eating normally again I gained a lot of weight. I have literally waited an entire decade for this. and I know that the BMI scale is flawed and that with my muscle mass and extra skin I was probably a “normal weight” before now, but now it feels official.
and I’m really fucking proud of it.
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