Down 45 pounds and counting after struggling with even the concept of losing weight for years.
I’ve been slowly gaining weight since college, much more rapidly in the last year however. Every year my doctor would tell me I should lose some weight and I would agree with the best of intentions and every year come in a little heavier. I’ve always struggled with fickle knee joints so finding workouts I could do without pain was difficult and disheartening. I also never found any joy in working out. I felt no endorphin rush and I just hated how I felt afterwards. If I did find anything I could stick with for any amount of time, I would never see or feel a change. The heavier I got, the more my knees hurt. I also love food. All kinds of food and hated the idea of calculating what I ate to track calories. Last year was a lot of take out. I maxed out around 265lbs and decided if I’m stuck home with nothing else to do I might as well try to get healthy.
My sister finally convinced me to try a fitness app for streaming workouts last October. She did the same workouts with me from the other side of the country, which helped me to stay accountable and keep going. in February I gave my diet an overhaul, not with tracking or measuring, but just removing or limiting things that are not healthy and eating more things that are, but still allowing treats and exceptions on occasion.
Today for the first time in ten years I broke below 220lbs. I haven’t had a goal weight since I’ve never put too much stock in the scale, I am fairly tall and large framed so I just want to find a place where I’m content in my skin and healthy. I am just now starting to feel like it could actually be reasonably possible for me to break 200lbs and I am pretty excited at the idea and just wanted to share.
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