Hello!

NeverGiveUpStriving

Hi all, I'm new!

I'm Sarah, 28 years old, and a graduate student.

I've never really had weight issues with my weight being too high until recently, kind of struggled with an eating disorder in the past but was maintaining a semi-ok weight.

About 5 months ago, I was ~102lbs (I'm 5'5"), and then was started on 2 medications that both had side effects of dramatically increased appetite (ugh!). I was binging non-stop, every day, it was awful.

I finally realized the meds were just putting me through more hell than they were helping! So I stopped them both.

A few weeks ago, I hit my highest of 140lbs. Gained 38lbs in like 4 months! Ugh.

I'm extremely uncomfortable with and ashamed of my body right now. I know I'm not overweight or anything, but I dunno, in my mind it feels like it!

I don't really feel the need to lose all the weight I gained, I was pretty underweight so I'm aiming for somewhere between now and then!

I think the thing that's bothering me the most is my waist! Apparently when people gain weight rapidly from a kinda low weight, the place it goes the most is the waist. :-\ I measured the other day and it's 34 inches. So that's one thing that I REALLY want to focus on changing!

Anyway, that was kind of long so sorry to anyone who actually read it! But just wanted to get that down!

Look forward to meeting a lot of you guys on here

Sarah