Well, I guess it's time to FINALLY do an introductory post. I'm not TOO great that these, but it needs to be done so I'm going to give a shot at it.(NOTE: I put this about 10 years ahead of time so that it'll ALWAYS be the first post. To read new blogs, please scroll down! :) )
My name is Steph. I'm nineteen and I'm from a small town. However, I'm not exactly small myself...yet. In fact, I can't really remember a time when I was an average weight for my height and age. I was actually underweight up until I started Kindergarten, then things began to go down hill from there. I went through a string of diets starting around the age of ten. When I was twelve, I came across the Atkins diet and tried that out. Of course, when you are twelve and not educated in food, you want to be JUST LIKE everyone else and you want to eat the foods that your friends are eating. In the end, that diet became a failure for me.
By the time I was 15 and a freshman in high school (photo on the left with the red letters), I was 321 pounds. I was miserable. I still wasn't very educated in food and wanted to cry each time I stepped on the scale and it would just go higher and higher. I was made fun of quite a bit and felt so uncomfortable in my own skin. In that photo, I have on a shirt that is a XXL and my jeans were a size 26. I was on a school trip in that photo and I remember feeling so miserable knowing that I couldn't go shopping like the rest of my friends could. I felt miserable knowing that when I went into a gift shop, I couldn't just buy pretty much ANY souvenir shirt that I liked. I'd either have to go to the men's shirts or just pray that I'd find a decent looking one in my size.
It wasn't long after that trip that I knew I needed to change. I talked to my mom and she took me to a doctor who has supported me the whole way. I've been a little stuck in my weight loss for about a year, but I'll admit that I slacked off due to graduating high school and starting college. I'm not letting ANYTHING get in my way now, though. I keep my list from my other blog post in my pocket and I read over it each day. I love seeing that there are actually REASONS for me to look better and I KNOW I want to FEEL better.
In the second photo, (blue this time), I am 262 pounds. My shirt is a Large and my jeans are a 22 (I can't seem to lose the hips). I feel more happy and confident than I did before, so I can only imagine what this will bring me when I lose all 171 pounds. :)
If anyone who is reading this is losing weight and want to become buddies, please let me know! I would LOVE to get to know other people that are going through this as well.
WE CAN AND WILL BEAT OBESITY!!!
