Celebrating Non-Scale Victories! Members share your NSVs here!

TerezaToledo

Repost from @justsayinisall

"Just plugging along here. Slow but steady.

I really wish I could do vacation without a weight gain but, alas, I can't. Usually gain about 5-7 pounds. Though this last vacation was a cruise lol. I didn't FEEL like I overate too much but the numbers don't lie. I was prepared for it though. I did start cutting early to lose the pounds I KNEW I would gain on the cruise. So I was prepared, I didn't freak out, just jumped right back in to the cut.

The biggest thing this journey has taught me is how to eat. I've been on this earth 47 years and I didn't know how to eat *hangs head in shame*. I was an expert at the game; "how little can I eat to still function". And I was really good at not counting calories at all because; "F it, I'm going to gain weight anyway may as well eat whatever I want". I had zero clue on how much I needed to eat to fuel my body properly.

They REALLY need to teach this stuff in school. I know they teach a little bit about eating healthy and eating everything in moderation but if someone, anyone, would have told me that because I was built bigger than my peers I would need to eat a little more than they did, it could have saved years of heartache and frustration. I just didn't know. I'm a smart person too and I just didn't know. How crazy is that?? Everyone, doctors included, all said that if you are overweight you are eating too much and I believed them. No one bothered to ask me how much I was eating (hello I was eating under 800 calories a day for 10 years and still gained weight). Even when I started MFP, the main board, someone told me that it was impossible to gain weight eating one meal a day, pretty much called me a liar. One person put a link to this part of MFP and here we are. Thank you random internet stranger.

And thank you guys for talking sense. The minute I read things here, I swear, tears came to my eyes. The answers were in these pages. I just had to read them and follow the advice. You have all helped me break the cycle that could never be won. No matter how hard I tried and how low my calories went, I would never win the weight battle. Now? I've got this. I will win. I KNOW that with ever fiber of my being I will win this...hell I HAVE won this, it's just a work in progress..."

Tereza
Team EM2WL