This may sound strange....

theblsckcatjane
theblsckcatjane Posts: 4 Member
in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
I, like many people going through a life change like a death, divorce, orkike myself, a very difficult break up. Over a two month period I somehow lost over 35 pounds...not even trying noticing the pounds gone until a friend hugged me and made a comment I'll never forget "you feel like a bag of bones.." These were not the most encouraging of words. Definitely not something at the time I had taken any thought to either. I quickly ran into the bathroom, took off all my clothes and weighed myself. I had dropped 30 pounds! I was happy and frustrated all at the sametime. I had been trying to lose weight for over a year. I had always been kinda over weight. Nothing bad, 20 pounds over for my short height of five three. I was always active until a knee injury I got while I was a roller derby player put me down for that year.
I began to notice small things about my weight loss like my strength. It was non existent. That incredibly discouraged me. I had always been a very strong person physically and mentally. I was also having bouts of back numbness and loss of stamina in my arms. Im a hair stylist so my core and arm strength is very important.
Now that all this weight is gone I decided to get strong again. Being that I hardly ate anything during those two months it was difficult to eat as frequently as I needed to, to GAIN weight. Two words I never thought would exit my mouth. But I'm doing it and I'm slowly watching the scale move up. And it's ok. I'm getting healthy and strong again. I'm gaining my confidence back and no more being boney.

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  • hekla90
    hekla90 Posts: 595 Member
    I'm the same way with stress- if it persists consider seeing a counselor. I went through a break up and assault and somehow ended up at 88 lbs over a month or so and possibly looking at impatient for refeeding because I did not have the 15 lbs or so to lose. Fortunately my job is very active and I didn't notice any strength losses though I did stop lifting for now but I'm still able to run and lift huge patients without problems. And so far no inpatient hooray! Hope you get to feeling better!
  • MelaniaTrump
    MelaniaTrump Posts: 2,694 Member
    DD - Divorce diet. Nature's way of telling you to go out on dates and eat dinners.

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