Where things start, not finish...The Beginning
I've just recently turned 19 years old (5 days ago) and though my life has some really great aspects about it, I still feel very unsatisfied with my life, and I can pretty much link it to my weight. I am over weight, there is no denying it, and as much as my mum tells me I'm not, I am. I've been over weight for most my life, I starting to put on weight around the age of 7, and when I say put on I mean in excess! This continued right through primary school and the beginning of high school. I used to play sport, netball being my most favourite, and there was a time when I was around 14-15 that I did start to slim down, I was being placed in the highest grades of netball and I trained a lot harder to keep that position, so that really helped, but like all good things, they come to an end. I got a job when I turned 15 and unfortunately my shifts were placed at the same time as netball, so I quit and didn't take another sport up (very silly mistake!)
In years 11 and 12 at high school I started putting weight back on, and fast. Those years were very stressful for me, and looking back at it, I just worried about every little thing and just stress ate a lot, which wasn't helpful. All my friends were in bikinis and so was I, though it was covered by a singlet and boardies. I looked shocking in my formal photos and struggled to fit in my dress, which was very embarrassing to me. When I graduated from High School I told myself that in the 3 months before I started University, I would be skinny and lose all the weight, but me the procrastinator I am, I was all talk and put it off again and again and didn't do anything about it.
So now I have finished my first year of University, turned 19 and I'm ready to do something about it. I feel that If I document my 'journey' I'll be obliged and pressured to post and stick to my diet. Even if no one reads this, even if someone does, I know I'm not alone in this, and hopefully I can share with the wide world of the Internet my experiences, my worries, my aspirations, my triumphs and downfalls, but the most important thing is, I am changing my life today, which the me of tomorrow, the me of next year, will thank me for.