Time to love myself and my body!

healthyskinnystrong

Hi, I've had myfitnesspal for a while now but I've never introduced myself. I guess that's what I'm doing now!
I'm Hannah and I'm a teenager. I suppose I should start my story from the very very start. I was never one of those kids who could eat everything and still stay stick thin, I was one of the chubby ones and I knew it. I hated the way I looked and so from a very young age (seven/eight years old) I began to diet and starve myself. I thought that I could achieve the body of one of my stick thin friends. My eating habits worsened as I reached my teens. In November 2011, I reached the worst point of my life. I had got tickets to a concert and I wanted to look good at it. I began to eat a lot less than I had before and got caught in an awful cycle of starving and binging. I became absolutely miserable and self harmed. The concert came and went but still I wanted to lose weight. My ideas of nutrition and health were distorted beyond belief. I had dry skin, I was constantly weak and dizzy, my nails went purple, I lost my period for over a year and my hair began to fall out. My body couldn't deal with the pressure of what I was putting it under and I started to binge horrendously. I gained a lot of weight and felt disgusting. After reaching my lowest weight in March of 2012, I gained over 2 stone and ended up nearly overweight by May. I decided that after years of tormenting myself it was time to change, and so I began to research about real nutrition and health. It was hard, but I began to slowly up my calorie intake and stop my binges. I began to exercise and eat healthy foods. I continued to gain weight as I had an awfully low metabolism, but soon my normal metabolism came back.
That's my story up until now. Looking back I guess I starved myself because I felt like I wasn't good enough. But guess what? EVERYONE is good enough and EVERYONE deserves to eat. I'm so much happier now than I ever was and I love food, I don't fear it like I used to.
I love running, yoga, pilates (especially blogilates), cooking and learning about health. My dream is to become a dietician and help other people learn about nutrition. I have learned so much in these past few months about my body.
I started off this journey at 140lbs and now I'm just under 130lbs. My goal is 118lbs, but I would rather reach my goal measurements than my goal weight. Being strong and healthy means much more to me than a number on the scales. My daily calorie goal right now is 1400 calories and I refuse to go under 1200.
So, I guess that's everything. Please add me, and if you have any other questions, just message me! c: x