NSV about stress

MeganSWoods

A little background on me: I tipped the scales at over 300 lbs in Feb 2010 when I decided to give up fast food and pop for Lent. I quickly decided to take it further and wanted to get healthy because around that time my grandfather passed away (not from being unhealthy, but it was a wake up call for me that I was shaving years off of my life because I WAS unhealthy). Anyway, in about 5 months, I lost 43 lbs and was feeling great! I got a lot of compliments and thought I had a handle on the eating and had even exercised a little over the summer. But when school started up in the fall, I was completely caught off guard at how much harder grad school was than undergrad and I slipped into my old habits of stress eating fast food and desserts pretty much every day. I had also not gotten into a rhythm with the exercise and I thought it took too much time away from my homework, so that was one of the first things to go. Needless to say, I regained some of the weight I had lost and lost a lot of the confidence I had gained! So after the semester from hell, I rededicated myself to watching what I was eating and decided to get a trainer at the start of the new year (2011). Through the semester, I lost about 20 lbs with the trainer and watching what I was eating, but still hadn't really committed to any of it-- if I got stressed out, I was still slipping into bad habits. Until I found MFP and c25k. I started c25k in May and MFP June 1st and I honestly feel like a whole new person. I've realized that instead of going to food to treat stress, I can exercise and feel SO MUCH BETTER! I am now exercising 5ish days a week and am going to finish c25k this week-- all while still taking summer classes! I am so glad I have found a new, healthy way to deal with stress and I honestly don't feel like I'll slip back into the unhealthy ways again when it gets hard. Even if I do slip up, I feel like my new, healthy habits can help me find the way again very quickly. I know this was rambling, but I feel like I have really had that mental "click" and have found a healthy lifestyle that will stick with me forever and needed to share in my victory! :-)

beccarockslife

Fantastic, well done !

OURLADYPAULINE

Keep believin' in yourself each day, you will get far

See_Jenn_Run

That's awesome, way to go! I'm also a stress eater and looking to go back to school full time so I'm going to take your advice and pray for "the click" before I get back to school! Things are kind of clicking now but they're still a little out of joint if you know what I mean.

You have a great smile too! Keep up the good work and best of luck in grad school!

MeganSWoods

That's awesome, way to go! I'm also a stress eater and looking to go back to school full time so I'm going to take your advice and pray for "the click" before I get back to school! Things are kind of clicking now but they're still a little out of joint if you know what I mean.

You have a great smile too! Keep up the good work and best of luck in grad school!

Thanks-- good luck to you in school as well! :-D