I’ve really let myself go. I was at my ideal weight when I was a teen I was 160, and I am big bone, so 145 to 160 is ideal. I loved eating healthy and exercising, and I did all forms such as pilates, yoga, weight lifting, and cardio. I also had the teen metabolism, so I could a whole medium pizza from Domino’s once in a while and still run all over the place. I was lacto oavo vegetarian too, so again I ate these weird but healthy foods such soy milk, or sea weed. Not only I was I thin, but apparently I was attractive, or I thought I was.
But I didn’t feel happy, deep down I felt worthless, so I threw it all away.
Years later. I weigh over 250 pounds. Yes, it take years to weigh this much. Took eating out and gulping downing X-large drinks of Mountain Dew. Found out that one of those has 550 calories. Isn’t that equal to a burger and fries? Now that I’m not doing anything anymore. I’m starting to exercise again. Never realize that I was that good at exercise back then. Today, I did pilates and for some reason doing different types of leg lifts hurt my hip flexors, and back then these exercises were easy. I can’t do regular push ups anymore, let alone the lady push ups. Ad work-out kills me, but I think my body is slimming down slowly. I need to barely touch soda, and eating out. I need to add pilates more into my workout. A reason I started exercise is because my weight keeps going up, and my blood pressure is sometimes 120/90 which isn’t good. I’m working muscles that I haven’t worked in so long. I just keep expecting someone to ruin it for me though.
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Good job. Keep up the good work!
Interesting, lately I’ve been watching “Fat Doctor,” a British telly series about these morbidly obese people getting gastric bypass surgery by this surgeon. The first day I didn’t want to eat anything. But then after a few days of constantly seeing all the chips, fries, pizza, and breads, the show made me CRAVE all those junky bad things. Oy…
It will become easier the more you do it. Proud of you!
Binge eating is something I do when I’m really sad or trying to stop myself from progressing in life. It’s self-destructive. Glad you’re back into exercising. That inspires me even more. I’ll be struggling at first, but it really does get easier. I’ve done this time and time again…Just kinda pissed I stopped working out for a few months and have to start all over again.
Keep us updated. 🙂
If your goal is slimming, strength training is really helpful with that, because it raises your metabolism. Things like CrossFit are super, because you do heavy lifts and compound movements, and you do it in a supportive atmosphere. So you improve both your health and your social life.