This post is just to get you up to speed on how I changed.
When I was about 7 or 8 I started playing netball with some friends from school. I remember not know the rules and feeling embarrassed when I made mistakes but I still loved it! I didn't care. It didn't bother me because I had my Mum and Dad support and encourage me to continue.
Before netball I loved riding my bike around the neighborhood and bike paths with my brother and sister. I still remember playing it safe because sometimes we didn't tell Mum and my brother would always go further than I deemed "safe" (He's older mind you lol)
I guess the point is I remember always being an active child, we only watch TV at night time with the Simpsons were on, we played outside after school until it got dark, we didn't have video consoles, music devices, I loved P.E in primary school and Secondary school.
At that time of my life I was healthy, but it all changed when family drama sort of smacked our family in the face when I was 14/15 and nothing seemed that easy anymore. I quit netball because everything around it made it difficult, I slowly lost myself in food, school drama, family drama and generally became unhappy and unpleasant for my family to be around me.
There were a few people at school who made me feel like everything was okay and normal. They made school so much better, I love them for it. But it didn't stop me putting weight on, eating crap and not being so active. I just couldn't be bothered caring and to think I wondered why I felt insecure about myself.
So to put figures on it, I was about 55kg when I was 13 years old and when I finished School at 18 years old I was about 73kg. I put on 18kgs in a space of 5 years; (Somehow I don't think puberty can take any responsibility.) (also when some people saw me they said I looked fine weight wise but in my mind didn't feel fine)
I met my current partner when I was half way through year 12 and he is another person who supports and encourages me so I spent a lot of time with him. As happy as I felt with him I knew I wouldn't totally be happy until I felt back to normal and lost the weight I gained.
When I moved in with him, I made changes to my habits which have stuck... the smaller the change the easier it was to slowly start losing weight. I swapped soft drink/sugar drinks for water, take no sugar in my tea and coffee, swapped full milk to skim, got back into having breakfast and tried to avoid deep fried/saturated fatty food.
Oh it is also important to know that all these things worked for me, everybody is different so I expect people will try different things and have different results.After about 6 months I realized I lost some weight from those changes and it just drove me to keep going. I started to learn new healthy habits, added exercise and basically transform back to myself.
But that will do for now I feel like I could keep going but then I run out of ideas for future posts lol.
My future posts will include some goals I made, exercise I like to do, and things which help me stay committed, motivated and happy :)
