Hey all~
So, Im guessing my story is no different then any of yours. I've been a constant yo-yo dieter ever since I can remember. I remember being 5 and on the beach feeling fat...Seriously 5 years old! I dont want that for my 2 girls (ages 4 and 7). I want them to have a positive and healhty body image. Fast forward to now. Still feel fat and uncomfortable and skin. I have had WAY TOO MANY ups and downs and hate that embarrassing feeling I get when the downs lead back to the ups. After I delivered my second daughter I rejoined weight watchers (for about the 6th time in my life) but guess what I did it! I lost roughly 50 pounds and felt better then ever. I was at one of my smallest sizes that I had been and thought I finally got it. I finally have this whole weight thing under control, and I did for about 5 more months of 'this is easy' and 'feels so great' I wish I knew what made it so easy for me, and what kept me motivated. Never inmy life had loosing weight been easy and even dare I say enjoyable. Not sure what changed, but slow and steady pound by pound my weight started to creep up again. I remember that 5 lb up and thinking ok get it together, then it just kept escalating from there. Every monday/month I would recommit and say this is the time Im going to stick to it again and get back to where I was. In that recommiting I managed to gain weight at a rather quick rate, and this is why. Each time I would say tommorow, monday, beg of the month I would eat like it was my last meal forever binging on any and everything I could. Also, here is the sad truth I love adult beverages, my choice of drink is beer. Not just any old beer, but the heavy micro brew stuff which has about a thousand calories per bottle and I drink them in excess...Not proud of this, just being honest. And truth be told, thats my biggest challenge, reducing that. So, while gaining all of the 50 lbs back plus 5 more I am here to change. I am done buying clothes to get me by till I fit in my 'skinny' clothes to just grow out of my 'get me by clothes.
I know that there is so much more to my story and what got me here in the first place. I need to not just work on the outside appearance, but the inside as to what makes me want to fill myself with all the 'junk' when all it does is make me feel worse. I welcome you all to join me on this jouney and pray that we can do it together and encourage one another!
P.S. I was trying to find a current pic, but couldnt. This is when I was at my smaller size so I guess I going to post this and use it as some motivation.