“If you want to accomplish anything in life you cant just
sit back and hope it will happen, you’ve got to make it happen.” Chuck Norris
Recently I started trying to lose weight and I wont lie it
is a constant struggle not to eat as much as I used to, and not to eat as many
bad things as I used to. Every day I continue to actually do it but not without
help and support from my boyfriend. Every day he tells me how beautiful I am.
You have to have someone around that can always help you feel good about yourself.
I am not going to go into detail about all the things I do
to lose weight because it works for me and it will not work for everyone. One of the things is cutting out soda and if
I am going to drink it only drinking one can or cup before I switch back to
drinking water. Working helps too because I am always moving around and using
calories.
I am going to go into detail about how much I am wanting to
lose though, not so that people feel sorry for me or for them to make fun of
me. But so that I can show that it is possible if you just have your mind set
to it.
I started out at 224 pounds, or something right around
there. It was while I was at the doctor
that I realized that I needed to lose weight. I am only 5’ 6” so standing there
looking at how much my weight had gotten to I felt bad about myself. Now
granted I don’t look like I weigh that much so when I tell people that they
don’t believe me.
The week after I went to the doctor I actually started
physically thinking about and starting to lose weight. So far I have lost
around 8-10 lbs; that changes a few times due to my family going out and myself
splurging on whatever I feel like eating that day. As of right now when I checked this morning I
am down to 215 lbs.
The biggest problem I was having when I first started this
was that I eat out 90% of the time. I am in two schools so when I leave high
school I go straight through a drive thru and get something and eat it while
driving to my cosmetology school. Then I tend to leave cosmetology and head
straight to work most days. So I either stop and get dinner from a fast food
restaurant or eat fries sometime during the day while I am at work.
Another problem I had is that since I work at Dairy Queen we
have high in sugar artic rush flavoring. Let me tell you Strawberry Kiwi
flavoring in Sierra Mist is probably the best thing I have ever had to drink in
my life. But that combines two things that I am trying to cut out.
People ask me all the time if I am doing it because my
boyfriend says I need to; the answer to that is no. Another thing that I am
asked a lot is if I am loosing weight to please other people; the answer to
that is also no. You should never be losing weight for anyone else, you always
need to be doing it for yourself.
“It takes 4 weeks for YOU to see your body changing. It
takes 8 weeks for your FRIENDS AND FAMILY. It takes 12 weeks for THE REST OF
THE WORLD. Keep going.”
This is something that I have had to live by recently
because sometimes I get discouraged because other people don’t notice how hard
I am trying to be healthier and look better. You will slowly start to realize
sometimes that even if people do notice they don’t want to tell you. People
seem to be pre programed to want to put people down, and telling them they look
like they are losing weight does not help them in their efforts to put you
down.
Now some of you probably want to know why I am choosing to
do this whole weight loss thing and to tell everyone about it; so I guess I
will finally explain that.
I am doing this for myself; to make myself feel better. I am
doing this for my boyfriend in some shape but only because he deserves to have
a healthy women on his arm; not because he tells me I need to lose weight. I am
doing it because I want to be my best me for the last summer I am going to have
before I go off to school. And finally, I am doing it so that when I go off to
school I wont get so discouraged when I am in the gym or at the pool.
I hope this helps those of you that are trying to lose
weight to see that it is possible. Even with the constant struggle to eat
healthy you can lose weight.
~Kaylan
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