Friday, March 2, 2012

Dontcha hate it when...

I really really hate it when someone says "there's no way you're almost 200 pounds!"

ARE YOU BLEEPING KIDDING ME!?!? Get on the scale with me. Seriously. Call my doctor. My chiropractor even has a record of my weight. Don't you know that black is slimming?

This is not the first time in my life I've been this size. When I was in 8th grade, we'd been moving every few months and the food was never healthy. I actually think I'm a little bigger now than I was then. Freshman year of high school, I was a size 14. By the end of that year, I was a size 10. Freshman year of college, I was a size 5. Stress does awful things to your body. 

I wish, then, that I had the mind to run and work out on a regular basis. Now, I was in the AFROTC, and I weighed 119 pounds, two pounds more than their minimum for my BMI. And I could not do pushups correctly, and I couldn't pound out more than ten situps. I couldn't run. I was out of shape, but I was tiny. I do miss that body, but I never felt good. And I was depressed. 

Funny what good food and happiness will do to your waistline, eh? :) 


September 2006, size 5
This size ON MY OWN TERMS

1 comment:

  1. I feel pain, Woman. I lost 74 lbs and changed all my old habits. I work out 4-6 times a week both aerobic and yoga...I eat healthier and at the age of 50 feel better than I did at 30. You keep it up. I'm rooting for you:-)
    Michelle

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