Journey to a Smaller Me
Current Weight: 166.2 lbs
I am 23 years old, 5'4 and I've had problems with my weight all my life. Being from an Asian family, they never once let me forget it. At my heaviest, I was 184 lbs.
About 3 years ago, I started my first weight loss journey. I cut calories but refused to really exercise. I managed to get down to 135 lbs before I stopped extreme dieting.
The last year was uncharacteristically stressful. The result of which being, I gained a majority of the weight back. And boy did it come back quickly.
Recently, I've decided to kick the bad habits and start shedding those pounds once again. This blog is how I will keep motivated through the tough times, share victories in the good times and, hopefully, find some people to take the journey with as well.
- Aunt: Do you have a boyfriend?
- Me: No
- Aunt: You have all the boys looking at you huh? *laugh*.....*hits my shoulder*. So you gained weight.
- Me: .......
- Aunt: Do you remember in college when you were skinnier? That was better.
- Me: ..........
Lipton’s green tea with red goji berry and raspberry is so delicious. It is my new daily staple. And I usually hate tea, craziness.
(via thatsjustneat)
easier said than done but it is a good thing to try to tell yourself anytime someone makes you feel bad about yourself. It’s especially tough when it comes from people closest to you.
In my case it is almost always my family. They don’t see how wrong it is to tell someone if they lost weight they’d be beautiful. Or constantly telling them they need to exercise or reminding them how fat they are. Commenting on imperfect body areas and laughing in your face as they say it. Oh but they don’t ‘mean to be hurtful.’
There are times that I am sad about moving away from home but then there are times I’m glad I did. Clearly I’m a little aggravated with my family at the moment and I don’t mean to make it seem like they are cruel people and I do love them dearly. They just don’t have enough common sense to realize that these little comments throughout one’s lifetime eats away at someone. Little by little.
had a meal at McDonald’s and now I’m feeling bleh.
Full and round….here’s to remembering this awful feeling and having a better day tomorrow!
I know it’s bad but with no place to put my own food from home, I’m afraid I’m at their mercy.
Not sure what this week’s weigh in will be…I’ll be making a trip back home on Thursday which has a scale.
Do I even want to know?
I was eating a large croissant every morning with a can of soda (I know!!).
Have since replaced it with icy water and oatmeal. Though I haven’t found a way of vamping up the oatmeal that I’ve really liked. Not into adding a ton of sugar. I tried adding strawberries but that was just bleh…I eventually just kinda gave up and just made due with eating it plain.
The best thing about this new routine is that a cup of oatmeal will sustain me through to lunch pretty easily. I get into work a 7am and right about 11:30 is when I start to feeling the rumblings of hunger which I find awesome!
forgot to add in the update (or even write it down….) but I do remember having made some progress when I weight myself a few days ago. Bleh, again the pitfall of no scale.
I will say that I’ve noticed a few of my work pants feeling a little looser, hopefully this isn’t just a bias towards seeing what I want to see lol.
Because I really want to see if I’ve made any progress this week in and if my food decisions are paying off with weight loss…..
