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moeisreal
moeisreal Posts: 42
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Any young dudes/chicks out there tryna accomplish their dream body? what made you do it? what was rock-bottom for you? how do you feel now compared to then? lets talk haha.
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  • MysteriousMerlin
    MysteriousMerlin Posts: 2,270 Member
    I'm too old for this crud. Imma take my cane and leave!
  • phostose
    phostose Posts: 56
    I started trying to get healthy after I found out the I had a Pulmonary Embolism (blood clot in my lung)
  • EHisCDN
    EHisCDN Posts: 480 Member
    22 here. I just want to be healthy and happy :). I'm feeling a lot better since I stopped overeating and started exercising.
  • DeterminedToLoseIt02
    DeterminedToLoseIt02 Posts: 113 Member
    I started because my teen years were spent hating myself and my weight and my rock bottom was kinda seeing that I was wasting my youth sitting inside wishing I had more confidence and knowing my lack of confidence was due to my poor body image. So I started using MFP to count my calories and I set up a deficit. Thank god I found MFP because if I hadn't I would be eating only diet foods and eventually falling back into bad habits. I'm new to this so I haven't lost more than a couple pounds but it's enough to keep going.
  • moeisreal
    moeisreal Posts: 42
    I'm too old for this crud. Imma take my cane and leave!
    HAHA you can stay, I learned the majority of my life lessons from wise old people (:
  • babsyboo10
    babsyboo10 Posts: 7
    24 here. And I just want to feel good in my body. Its hard, but im still trying.
  • moeisreal
    moeisreal Posts: 42
    I agree, having a good body does wonders with confidence. Its not even about the image though, its just like the lifestyle of eating healthy and exercising that gives me such a good positive feeling. Rock bottom for me was drug addiction and living like a savage. lol that life was crazy. overeating and not exercising is very comparable to the life of a drug addict.
  • GoBucks34
    GoBucks34 Posts: 75 Member
    @phostose dude are those shields from Zelda? I ****in love LOZ. ha
  • moeisreal
    moeisreal Posts: 42
    24 here. And I just want to feel good in my body. Its hard, but im still trying.
    Some days are unbelievably hard. I just wanna lay around and stuff my face sometimes. I wish those urges never came. how to get rid of them?
  • cannibaldoll
    cannibaldoll Posts: 50 Member
    22, joined when I was 19 (this site). I haven't met my UGW, but I have maintained at a lower weight. What made me want to lose weight was when I thought I'd try out C25K, I jogged for ONE MINUTE, and was OUT OF BREATH for ONE HOUR. I knew I was totally out of shape and needed to make a change, because there was no reason for someone like myself- no health problems- that at 19 couldn't at least JOG for one minute.
  • GoBucks34
    GoBucks34 Posts: 75 Member
    Anyways, I am 21 and just trying to get a great body. Im sick of my belly fat.
  • jessgumkowski88
    jessgumkowski88 Posts: 189 Member
    20 and just looking to be more active, healthy and confident! Plus im in the health care field, and so I'd like to look healthy so as not to be hypocritical haha xD
  • jessgumkowski88
    jessgumkowski88 Posts: 189 Member
    Oh and I love the motivation on this site! :D

    Because of my MFP friends, I ran my first 5k in this past august! Yay for Run4YourLives!
  • moeisreal
    moeisreal Posts: 42
    We are young lettss goooo. @jessgum my doctor is fat as hell and when I was younger used to always bug me about losing weight, oh the hypocrisy.

    P.S. good on you for running 5k! I need to try one of those marathons
  • babsyboo10
    babsyboo10 Posts: 7
    24 here. And I just want to feel good in my body. Its hard, but im still trying.
    Some days are unbelievably hard. I just wanna lay around and stuff my face sometimes. I wish those urges never came. how to get rid of them?

    I have such a hard time getting rid of them, im such an emotional eater. Its not even funny
  • jessgumkowski88
    jessgumkowski88 Posts: 189 Member
    Try Run4YourLives! It was the most fun I've ever had! haha everyone there was soo nice and it wasn't overly competitive. It's really you against the zombies. (It's a Zombie infested 5k Mud obstacle course!)
  • hotmomma0612
    hotmomma0612 Posts: 651 Member
    I'm 18, but I have a son and am pregnant, so we probably can't relate.
  • moeisreal
    moeisreal Posts: 42
    24 here. And I just want to feel good in my body. Its hard, but im still trying.
    Some days are unbelievably hard. I just wanna lay around and stuff my face sometimes. I wish those urges never came. how to get rid of them?

    I have such a hard time getting rid of them, im such an emotional eater. Its not even funny
    Yeah me too, if im not feeling good/having a bad day, I want to binge the fk out on some of the worst foods, just so I can feel worse after eating haha smh. its a vicious cycle. Its all about willpower when there is a bad day.
  • jessgumkowski88
    jessgumkowski88 Posts: 189 Member
    @hotmomma

    We can definitely still relate <3 You're doing this not only for yourself but for someone you love, and there's nothing un-relateable about that. You go Girlie!
  • moeisreal
    moeisreal Posts: 42
    Try Run4YourLives! It was the most fun I've ever had! haha everyone there was soo nice and it wasn't overly competitive. It's really you against the zombies. (It's a Zombie infested 5k Mud obstacle course!)
    I Saw that event in downtown phx! around Halloween time. I didn't know it was fitness related tho, Im gonna do some marathon researching. I bet there's a whole bunch of them that go unnoticed.
  • jessgumkowski88
    jessgumkowski88 Posts: 189 Member
    Omg haha talk about binging! I'm craving bad right now and this tea's just not hitting it. Maybe I'll go for a walk...
  • Howdoyoufeeltoday
    Howdoyoufeeltoday Posts: 481 Member
    I'm female and 23. Just have about 6 pounds left to lose and trying to get in better shape overall. I love food, music and anything geeky... :tongue:
  • hollyanne572
    hollyanne572 Posts: 55 Member
    21 yrs and was tired of just existing day to day, my fiance and I have been together coming up 5 years and we have never once been to the hotpools!!! Ready to get back into a bikini and start enjoying life again.
  • angelzprophecy
    angelzprophecy Posts: 130
    im 21 y/o. There was no rock bottom for me and there was nothing that made me want to do it other than just wanting aesthetics. I've always wanted that sexy body and was willing to work for it but was too scared to go to a gym.

    then i started lifting with my friend 2 summers ago and just never stopped. Getting over the gym fear was very important because i didnt want to look like an idiot in the gym but my friend showed me the ropes around a gym and now lifting is just very important for me to feel right in the world. whenever i got for more than 1 week without lifting then i start up again, i always feel better or more, i feel right

    the diet was easy enough since i've dieted before and was used to making my own food already.

    i was driven by the progress, when i hit a plateau then i would do more research or get more involved with the diet.

    i wasnt overweight when i started so i dont feel thaaaat much more different than i did then other than the obvious things - much stronger, more endurance, more self confidence , higher self-esteem.
  • hollyanne572
    hollyanne572 Posts: 55 Member
    I completely agree about over eating being like a drug habbit, food was my coccaine.
  • jessgumkowski88
    jessgumkowski88 Posts: 189 Member
    I completely agree about over eating being like a drug habbit, food was my coccaine.

    god yes haha so rough sometimes. I'm an emotional eater. Bad day? lets go stop at McDonald's because i don't feel like cooking. Super happy? Let's go get something horrible for us to celebrate! haha
  • Sarahnade42x
    Sarahnade42x Posts: 308 Member
    19 here- I always knew I was out of shape (I was exhausted after WALKING a 5k in May 2012), but I always just ignored the problem because it seemed so impossible to fix. I got a major reality check when I checked the scale one day and it said I was a pound away from 250...man, was that bad. I've been losing weight ever since, and now I loveloveLOVE living healthy and giving my body new challenges every day. At 250 every single day was full of physical limitations and things I felt I could never do because of my weight. That doesn't exist anymore - even if I can't do it today, I can keep working my *kitten* off and do it tomorrow.
  • moeisreal
    moeisreal Posts: 42
    I completely agree about over eating being like a drug habbit, food was my coccaine.
    I know right its the same concept, a temporary feeling of euphoria followed by; feeling like ****, and then you want more and more. America has got us slaved into the food industry, im telling you I've watched these food documentaries, its mind-boggling to see what they do to processed food!
  • HollyRobertz
    HollyRobertz Posts: 11 Member
    22 here. I come from a dominantly overweight family and that just isn't the future I saw for myself. I saw a picture and couldn't believe how big I looked in it. I've always been the "pretty face, funny girl" but never the one who got dates. I lost my first 20 lbs and then I started dating, and fell in love with someone who made me feel terrible about myself. He knew the issues I had with weight yet he told me I had big thighs, talked about how disgusting fat people were (he never thought I was fat but I still made it clear that I don't believe in putting down people for their weight), and use to smack at my arm fat, then he broke up with me and I blamed myself for everything that went wrong and then I decided that I am a lot stronger than feeling that useless and if I have issues with my body, it is up to me to change them. Good luck with getting into shape, anyone feel free to add me, I am trying to utilize this website more and could use some friends! :)
  • moeisreal
    moeisreal Posts: 42
    19 here- I always knew I was out of shape (I was exhausted after WALKING a 5k in May 2012), but I always just ignored the problem because it seemed so impossible to fix. I got a major reality check when I checked the scale one day and it said I was a pound away from 250...man, was that bad. I've been losing weight ever since, and now I loveloveLOVE living healthy and giving my body new challenges every day. At 250 every single day was full of physical limitations and things I felt I could never do because of my weight. That doesn't exist anymore - even if I can't do it today, I can keep working my *kitten* off and do it tomorrow.
    wow girl look at you! 76 pounds lost is amazing, that must've been a long, rough, tough journey :O Props for your dedication, I need more of that.

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