Yay for a healthy lifestyle

I'm happy to say that I am finding it extremely easier to reach my goal of 125 pounds than I originally thought it would be.  I tried to whole starvation thing at the age of 17 and I ended up getting down to 115 pounds up until I was 18.  It took me about a year to realize that I was sick of the way my body felt.  Not eating is the most dreadful feeling in the world.  I would sit and watch food commercials just wishing that those dripping with grease chicken wings would just magically appear in my mouth, but not make me fat.  It got so bad that I would sit all day long and think about nothing but food.  I had my mind set that food was the devil and if I did, in fact eat, I would look fat.  I hated the feeling of food in my stomach, I hated eating because I thought I was fat, and yet I was always thinking about food.  It was incredibly stupid of me to lose weight that way, but it took me 20 years to figure that out.  I began my healthy weight loss crusade about 3 months ago.  It was off and on to begin with.  I would work out, then go home and eat 4 pieces of pizza (with Ranch might I add).  It wasn't until I stepped on that dreadful scale about one month ago that I realized I was VERY unhappy with my weight.  I started out at about 142 pounds and am now down to 135. I'm extremely proud of myself and feel as though I have the right to congratulate myself because I did it the HEALTHY way this time.  Although I have about 10 more pounds to go, I am actually excited to do it.  Working out has become just as important to me as college and working.  My days usually consist of work, school and always the Gym (the gym being the most important lately Ü)

I do sympathize with those who starve themselves because I was there once.  I think it comes with age.  One day those girls will realize, just as I did, that it may work for a year MAX, but it will catch up to you one day.

 

Anyway, yay me for being healthy :)

I had to share it somehow, even if it is to a computer screen because the boyfriend is getting sick of my "YAY's" every time I step on the scale.

One more glass of wine (healthy right? haha) and off to bed.

Good luck everyone.

congratulations!! for doing it the healthy way this time.

Thanks! If you couldn't tell by all my "Yay's" up there, I'm pretty proud of myself

i dont think you know how helpful this post was. i'm currently trying to gain weight by eating healthy. unfortunately i will admit i am going about it the wrong way by like binging, but im really underweight *like 14-15 bmi* so i guess the binging isnt so bad as long as i can stop when i get to a healthy weight. but back to why your post was helpful lol. i was so worrying that i would never be able to be "normal" again and the fact that you made it and can eat healthy to lose weight is amazing! so i actually can look forward to that and not having a screwed up interpretation of food for the rest of my life.

 

congradulations on the weight loss! and to mix it up a bit, yell "boo-yaa!" to your boyfriend next time you step on the scale ;)