- My ankles not hurting anymore from my weight putting pressure on them.
- Learning healthy eating habits and adopting them for the rest of my life.
- Severing my unhealthy emotional relationship with food.
- Looking better, and feeling better about myself.
- Fitting more comfortably in restaurant booths / airplanes / chairs.
- Not hearing people make snide remarks if I want to order food in a restaurant.
- Being able to shop in the normal sized people section in clothing stores, and finding my style -- other than oversized tshirts and jeans.
I really don't know how I got like this. When I was young, I remember seeing obese people and thinking "Wow. They should just go exercise and eat better." What I've now come to realize is, healthy eating and exercise don't work for everyone. In fact, an interesting statistic: people who are obese have a 2% chance of losing excess weight through eating and diet alone. That means 98% of people fail. Jenny Craig and all those stupid diets stay in business because it fails for us. And now I know that, so I don't judge. But other people do. I've actually lost a friend due to my weight. While it hurt at the time, I now see it as a positive thing: I know who my real friends are. Those who have stuck by me through all this. And I thank you all for your support :) serious.
Long day today, I will post tomorrow about it with lots of photos.
1 comments:
i'm so excited for you. that's a hefty list, but i'm sure you'll do great.
p.s. you mentioned working out in a previous entry, and i've gotten into weight lifting in the last year or so (weird, i know), but i've found it much more effective for weight loss. i have lost weight so many times on a diet only to put more back on. i'm definitely not at my ideal weight/size now, but i wear the same size i did when i was twenty pounds lighter because my body is leaner from gaining muscle mass. check out http://www.thenewrulesoflifting.com/. it's pretty empowering stuff and much easier to stick to than running 30 minutes on the elliptical everyday if you ask me.
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