15 pounds - broke the 200 lb barrier :)
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 3:59 pm
I always remember being chubby. In middle school one of my friends lost weight over the summer and kept encouraging me to go on a diet. I never cared enough. I liked eating and I didn't see what the problem was. I'm pretty tall for a woman (5'8") and I have a body type that hides the weight well, so I don't look fat, but I always felt sort of guilty.
Throughout high school and college I slowly kept gaining weight and by 2007 I weighed over 200 pounds.
In Fall 2007 I went to Japan for a semester studying abroad. While I was there, my attitude about food was very very different, and much more similar to no-s. I biked and walked everywhere, I ate when I was hungry and only when I was hungry, I ate 3 regular meals a day, and I cut back on my sweets significantly. In the four months I was there, I lost about 25 pounds to my all-time low of 175.
Within six months I was back up to 190, and over the next year my weight crept up to over 200. I was pretty resigned to it until Fall 2011 when I finally weighed 215 - my all-time high, the fattest I'd ever been.
I decided it was finally time to do something about it.
I came up with a variant of no-s on my own (no sweets, no snacks for a week before having a cheat day). I googled "no sweets no snacks" online and found the website. I tried it for a few weeks before the holidays and ended up falling off the bandwagon during November and December. In January I decided that I would jump back on and try again.
Since then, I've been weighing myself daily and I have lost 15 pounds in 5 months. A couple of weeks ago I got the perfect birthday present - the day before my birthday, I saw the number "199.6" for the first time in years. My weight loss has slowed down a bit but I've been keeping track of the trend and it's still definitely a downward slope.
The thing I love most about this is that it feels effortless. And my opinion of food has started to turn into that healthy way I felt when I was in Japan. I still love food. I just have separated it from eating. I don't want to eat, just to eat. I want to enjoy the food and not the act of eating. I've been walking more and feeling more energy and last week, when I went shopping for jeans, discovered that I'd gone down a size.
The first time around was really hard. But now my mental state has finally adjusted and eating sanely is becoming a habit, and saying no to friends offering treats is acceptable. I used to always give in to temptation, and now I truly have a choice.
I know this is sort of long and rambling, but I finally wanted to stop and say thank you! I'm so glad I stuck with it.
Throughout high school and college I slowly kept gaining weight and by 2007 I weighed over 200 pounds.
In Fall 2007 I went to Japan for a semester studying abroad. While I was there, my attitude about food was very very different, and much more similar to no-s. I biked and walked everywhere, I ate when I was hungry and only when I was hungry, I ate 3 regular meals a day, and I cut back on my sweets significantly. In the four months I was there, I lost about 25 pounds to my all-time low of 175.
Within six months I was back up to 190, and over the next year my weight crept up to over 200. I was pretty resigned to it until Fall 2011 when I finally weighed 215 - my all-time high, the fattest I'd ever been.
I decided it was finally time to do something about it.
I came up with a variant of no-s on my own (no sweets, no snacks for a week before having a cheat day). I googled "no sweets no snacks" online and found the website. I tried it for a few weeks before the holidays and ended up falling off the bandwagon during November and December. In January I decided that I would jump back on and try again.
Since then, I've been weighing myself daily and I have lost 15 pounds in 5 months. A couple of weeks ago I got the perfect birthday present - the day before my birthday, I saw the number "199.6" for the first time in years. My weight loss has slowed down a bit but I've been keeping track of the trend and it's still definitely a downward slope.
The thing I love most about this is that it feels effortless. And my opinion of food has started to turn into that healthy way I felt when I was in Japan. I still love food. I just have separated it from eating. I don't want to eat, just to eat. I want to enjoy the food and not the act of eating. I've been walking more and feeling more energy and last week, when I went shopping for jeans, discovered that I'd gone down a size.
The first time around was really hard. But now my mental state has finally adjusted and eating sanely is becoming a habit, and saying no to friends offering treats is acceptable. I used to always give in to temptation, and now I truly have a choice.
I know this is sort of long and rambling, but I finally wanted to stop and say thank you! I'm so glad I stuck with it.
