Time to actually try

agracebee

I've been kind of apathetic about weight loss the last few years; I had a baby, I lost weight easily in high school (80 pounds over a year), and excuse after excuse. Long story short is, I need a change. I've seen my family suffer too young because of weight. I need to stick with a plan so I can possibly help motivate friends and family that I want to have around for a very long time. It terrifies me sometimes - my dad was fit in his youth and army days, mildly beefy through age fifty, and had a heart attack by sixty in an overweight BMI. The weight/fitness level was a constant yo-yo after that, and he died not too long ago in his seventies from multiple problems that are definitely related to diet, weight, and physical fitness (I work in the science field, though, and fully acknowledge that disease has many factors and that being overweight does not necessarily mean being unhealthy).

Me, though? I was always the sturdy child. I had precocious puberty and had a well developed, slightly plump woman's body by age twelve. I was overweight by high school thanks to a lack of exercise and an abundance of carbs. I got in control of that in late high school with a healthier lifestyle that left out grains, and it all came back and then some through my first years of college. The freedom, the stress, depression, and so much had to do with it. I became pregnant at over 200 pounds, and though I had a very healthy pregnancy and did not gain much weight (right within the 10-25 pounds overweight women are recommended to gain), I vowed to lose 100 pounds from my highest pregnancy weight within two years of my son's birth. It didn't happen. I'm morbidly obese. I lost naturally via nursing, but since we didn't have a completely successful nursing relationship (my son's latch caused low supply that never recovered, and though we nursed for over a year, he was heavily supplemented) I quickly gained as I continued to eat as though I was making 1000 calories worth of milk a day. I'm currently hovering at my highest pregnancy weight. I was higher. I was a few pounds away from a particularly terrifying set of numbers.

I lean towards a primal lifestyle. Vegetables, fruit, meat, eggs, nuts. I might indulge in non-wheat grains occasionally. I do like certain legumes too much to fully give up (fresh peas and favas, edamame, occasional tofu, garbanzos for hummus). I'd love some new friends, particularly if you're in my boat - baby weight, lifelong weight problems, 100+ pounds to lose, or a love for a primal lifestyle - but really I'm up for meeting anybody new