The 1st Semester
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 2:37 AM filed under Diet & Nutrition postings
There were many things on my mind this year, but since this is a diet management site, I'll only address my weight. I weighed 197 pounds upon high school graduation. I now weigh 166 pounds. Victory? I really don't think so. It's nice fitting into my old clothes and yes, sometimes I look at myself in the mirror before taking a shower and think "damn...I like", but in all honesty, I don't think my weight loss was from diligence and taking care of myself.
As a byproduct of a few blood tests I found out that while I was massively overweight, I was healthy but needed to go outside more because damn were my vitamin D levels depressing. My diet was balanced.
I don't want to say much, all I can say is that over the summer I was taking care of a problem and things were going well until I realized it was almost time to head off to college, with this problem still hanging over me. I was engulfed by this fear, this worry. I stopped eating. My appetite plummeted and I lost 20 pounds.
In college I realized the steps I'd been taking for my problem had worked. Suddenly things were fine, and I gained 4 pounds...initially. then I dropped 16 pounds. See, in college, suddenly there were times when I just didn't have food. The grocery stores were half an hour's walk away and I just never had time...or money. I started using serving sizes to stretch food (eating half the ramen block for breakfast, the other half for tomorrow...throw out the flavoring cause it tastes like celery...add a rotting mushroom and some hot sauce).
I'd been using fitclick initially because I wanted to lose weight. My goal is 150. But after a few weeks I started using it to make sure I was getting enough iron, or protein...I feel that since my calorie intake has been handling itself, perhaps I shouldn't worry so much about weight and just focus on keeping a balanced diet. Also, I discovered soy yogurt.
