If you are like most
girls then you are very concerned about one of these things; your skin, your
hair, your weight, your nails, and overall your appearance. I happen to fall in
all of the categories listed above. My hair is sort of puffy so I have to always
heat style it in order for it to be worthy of going out. My skin is decent with
an occasional break out here and there, nothing major. My nails tend to chip
really easily which is so not fun. But the main concern and topic to be
discussed in this blog post would be my weight issue. I have a pear shaped
body. For those who are not familiar with that, it's a body shape that is small
on top and slightly heavier on the bottom (in my case, way heavier on bottom
than on top which equal un proportional body shape). I have always wrestled
with my body image and self esteem due to that. When I was a pre-teen I was
quite heavy but around the age of 14 I lost almost all of my baby fat because I
had a slight eating disorder. I started gaining weight again around the age of
17 and now I'm in the "unwanted zone". I have reached the level where
I feel very uncomfortable with myself and have started annoying those people
around me with my self-esteem issues. I have decided to resolve them though
because I am tired of fighting with myself. Yes, I enjoy food and that will
never change, but I have to do something about it before I end up weighing more
than an elephant. I have been keeping a food diary which is an awesome thing to
do because that way I am more aware of what I put in my mouth which in turn
makes me eat less because I am constantly debating whether I want to write down
a certain food that I ate. I'm not an athletic person at all so when I find
those YouTube gurus that talk about losing weight I get somewhat discouraged as
soon as they start talking about all the exercise involved in losing weight. I
would rather starve than run a mile, but I know from experience that depriving
yourself from food makes you gain weight even faster as soon as you put
something fattening in your mouth. I am striving each and every day to achieve
a goal and I have learned that cutting out a LOT (majority) of the foods I eat
or at least resizing the portions has helped me lose at least 5 pounds in 2
months. I didn't work out much, because like I already said before I'm not
athletic, but did stop eating fast food and drinking soda. This small change
has been evident. I will be back with more of my losing weight updates next
month. Wish me luck!
Stats:
Current Weight: 134.4 lbs
Goal: 125 lbs
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