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FitBelleVie
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I just posted this in reply to someone else about being overweight since being a child but I don't want the thread to get buried as I am in real need of more freinds here!
Looking back at pictures of myself, I think I was about 8 years old when my weight really ballooned. I think it was in part to my parents divorcing and the stress that it caused me but more so to my steroid inhalant for my terrible childhood asthma. I was an extremely active child and rarely watched TV and such. We even had a basketball court and lived right on a lake so I was always playing HORSE with my dad and brother and swimming. I was also in swimming lessons, basketball, soccer, baseball, ballet and tap dancing. But still, my weight ballooned. I remember being in fifth grade, I would turn on my radio and I would run circles around my bedroom for 20 minutes to get some cardio in to try and lose weight. I was conscious of my food intake even back then. Now that I have a child that age, I cannot BELIEVE that I was so consumed by my looks and weight at that young of an age. When I was in eighth grade, I was 180 pounds. I've just never been "small." I was in 7th grade working out every day on my mom's NordicTrac. I used that thing more than she did. The summer between my eighth grade and freshman year, I ran a mile every single night. My body shape did change but I didn't really lose weight. BUT, I did feel better about how I looked and the way I felt. I did pretty well keeping my body under control until I became pregnant with my first baby, when I was 20, and I gained 80 pounds. At least 35 of it was water retention and that fell off within three days of giving birth (I had pre-eclampsia). I did get down to almost my pre-pregnancy weight after I had him in about 9 months to a year but then I became pregnant again. Anyway, this has been a life-long struggle for me. Currently, I take blood pressure medication twice daily because after my last baby, whom I had in August 2011, my pregnancy induced high blood pressure never went away. It did with the other two pregnancies but not that one. I feel that I can get off of this medication if I can lower my weight significantly. But it might require that I get below where I was even before I was 12 years old. I am almost 30 years old now and I've never been so dedicated in all of my life to getting my weight down and my body confidence up. If you would like to cheer me on (and have me cheer you on!) would you add me? I am in need of some other really dedicated friends who are on MFP more than Facebook
Looking back at pictures of myself, I think I was about 8 years old when my weight really ballooned. I think it was in part to my parents divorcing and the stress that it caused me but more so to my steroid inhalant for my terrible childhood asthma. I was an extremely active child and rarely watched TV and such. We even had a basketball court and lived right on a lake so I was always playing HORSE with my dad and brother and swimming. I was also in swimming lessons, basketball, soccer, baseball, ballet and tap dancing. But still, my weight ballooned. I remember being in fifth grade, I would turn on my radio and I would run circles around my bedroom for 20 minutes to get some cardio in to try and lose weight. I was conscious of my food intake even back then. Now that I have a child that age, I cannot BELIEVE that I was so consumed by my looks and weight at that young of an age. When I was in eighth grade, I was 180 pounds. I've just never been "small." I was in 7th grade working out every day on my mom's NordicTrac. I used that thing more than she did. The summer between my eighth grade and freshman year, I ran a mile every single night. My body shape did change but I didn't really lose weight. BUT, I did feel better about how I looked and the way I felt. I did pretty well keeping my body under control until I became pregnant with my first baby, when I was 20, and I gained 80 pounds. At least 35 of it was water retention and that fell off within three days of giving birth (I had pre-eclampsia). I did get down to almost my pre-pregnancy weight after I had him in about 9 months to a year but then I became pregnant again. Anyway, this has been a life-long struggle for me. Currently, I take blood pressure medication twice daily because after my last baby, whom I had in August 2011, my pregnancy induced high blood pressure never went away. It did with the other two pregnancies but not that one. I feel that I can get off of this medication if I can lower my weight significantly. But it might require that I get below where I was even before I was 12 years old. I am almost 30 years old now and I've never been so dedicated in all of my life to getting my weight down and my body confidence up. If you would like to cheer me on (and have me cheer you on!) would you add me? I am in need of some other really dedicated friends who are on MFP more than Facebook
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Let's do this. I do log daily and have an open diary. I try to support all of MFP friends. I sent you a friend request. Anyone feel free to add!0
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I have an open diary, feel free to add me0
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I have an open diary and I wanna stay connected to all my mfp friends. Please connect with me anyone if u want to stay active and connected.0
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Keep Going! Looks like you are doing great! I just started an account today myself and the forums here seem to be pretty beneficial to people that are dedicated and motivated to losing some weight.
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