I am no stranger to weight loss. Once upon a time I lost 100 lbs. I was not heavy my whole life; a combination of the aftereffects of serious illness, food intolerance, and college eating skills made me gain seventy-five of those pounds. I spent the entire year after college losing the weight by eating right, watching portions, and learning how to eat.
That sounds strange, doesn't it? Learning how to eat. Shouldn't that be intuitive? ^_~ It isn't though! We live in a culture that eats all kinds of junk and calls it food, we're so detached from what we put in our bodies that people laugh at the idea of not eating dead animal flesh and yet go out and campaign against animal cruelty. There's no logic in that, same as there's no logic in eating stuff that has ingredients you can't pronounce, a ton of sugar and corn syrup, and don't get me started on fried food!
Keeping the weight off was easy...until the following happened:
1) I went inactive. I stopped working out, and hence shut down the lovely high metabolism I had worked so hard to gain.
2) A great deal of personal stress and trauma. I am still clearing out the toxic waste put into my system from so many months of going back and forth between healing and sliding backwards. I am now on a pathway to healing! And I am determined not to let the past win over me.
3) I stopped being as careful as I had been before as to what I put into my body.
It all adds up! And it's never fun. So now I'm seeking to reverse my personal trend, and let me tell you...it is EMPOWERING. I'm not doing this to be a supermodel, date hot guys, or impress my family and friends--I'm doing it for me. And frankly that's the best person to do it for!
Say it with me, loud and clear: you can do anything you want as long as you put your mind to it!
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