Growing up, I was the fat kid, but for some reason I never noticed it. So to me, it was a great surprise that, one day in the summer before 8th grade, my mom forced me onto a salad diet. I’m talking literally just dry cabbage and shredded carrots for three meals a day for two weeks. After the first week I cried so hard that she added these overboiled dry ass pieces of cardboard pork. She also got me to start walking on the treadmill every day. Looking back I was grateful because I was almost 160 pounds as a 12 year old girl.
I guess puberty energy kicked in because I started to love running on the treadmill. I started a routine, I started eating less. From there started my annual cycle where each summer, I would watch what I eat and exercise religiously and then fall back to my normal eating and sedentary habits during the school year. To say my weight yo-yoed is an understatement. I was fluctuating 20 pounds every year!
Finally, fast forward to the end of college and thanks to depression, alcohol and anxiety, I was back to almost 160 pounds. I then entered a CNA program, which made me lose my appetite and over 27 pounds in one summer month again. Around this time I rekindled my love for exercise and started powerlifting. It’s a strenuous sport which requires calorie counting; I loved it so much that I decided to try bulking so I could build muscle. I thought it would be easy because I love eating but the resulting weight gain - however expected - made me so upset and depressed (that’s a different story though).
I am now on my cutting journey and for the first time in my life, I am losing weight at a healthy pace because of a healthy lifestyle! It’s the slowest weight loss I’ve ever had but I still feel great, I don’t feel guilty or stressed, and I still manage to eat what I want within my calories and macros :) I still gym when I can (hard because of covid) but even just counting calories is helping me so much. My goal is to make this a healthy lifestyle for me and not just another quick summer-time only success story! Thanks for reading my experience :)
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