Good evening! Finally, I am getting some writing done today. I am doing a quick post before bed because I really want to commit to this blog, and to my health. Below are my ‘before’ photos. Note that my start weight is 235. I will do a weigh in each week. I don’t really have a ‘goal weight’ in mind. My main goal is to develop a healthier relationship with food, healthier eating habits, and to get stronger, and faster.
I am not training for anything in particular, I just want to take good care of my health and be strong! 🙂
I will get a measuring tape and take those measurements as well. I will try and get that posted by tomorrow. As you can see, I am quite, flabby. I am all for body positivity, which is exactly why I am starting this journey. To take better care of my body and myself. I see a lot of ‘fat’ people who talk about how they think they are disgusting, etc. I won’t do that. I am not here to put myself down, or to be negative about my body. If there is anything I have learned in being all different sizes, yes, I was even bigger than this before, it’s that you have to love yourself on your journey. Love yourself DURING, and BEFORE, or you will never love yourself AFTER.
Therefore, I won’t say anything negative about my body. My body has taken me this far, and will take me even farther if I do what I can do take better care of it. I hope that in me doing this I can encourage others to do the same. I want this to be a place of encouragement for all! Thank you, and have a wonderful evening.
Another coffee, Please. 
All the best on beginning this journey! I love love love your body positivity here. It’s something I’ve always struggled with and fought to work on so I’m inspired reading this post. I like the commitment to not say negative things about your body at any stage, I think we all need a bit more of that.
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Thank you! I have found it to be much more helpful to treat yourself better. Loving your body at every stage is a process but it’s important if we are to be happy once our body looks however it is we want it to look. 🙂
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I love that post – it`s so honest, brave and positive. I, too, used to suffer from Binge Eating Disorder, and I can reassure you that you CAN recover. I tried all kind of approaches, but the one which helped me was cognitive behaviour therapy – it really started in the head.
Weeks of food diaries confirmed that, with all my starving and bingeing, altogether, I was consuming too many calories overall. Because of the bingeing, I was first incredibly scared to stop starving, but my therapist convinced me to give it a try, and, *every single day* I savoured one (one!) bar of chocolate, saying to myself that I could have another one tomorrow. My bingeing did not stop over night, but it decreased. My calorie intake did not change for quite a while, but it became more balanced – my eating became normal. It wasn`t till a few years later that I lost weight (through low carbing at night only), but I was happier, not starving or bingeing and therefore not anxious at all.
With the actual weight loss, measuring helped enormously. I found that for every kg of weight, I lost a centimeter all over in average, and on weeks where I didnt lose any weight, I lost centimeters and vice versa. Glad I measured both, as there was always a success in one of the two which kept me going…
Kelly, you`re beautiful already, and I`m really looking forward to following your journey… x
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Awww thank you so much for your support. It’s so nice to hear that recovery is possible, with enough hard work and effort. I completely agree with you that it is largely mental. I had to be in the right mindset to be able to start doing this, I figured I may never get there unless I at least tried to document it. I think it will help me tremendously to be accountable for what I am doing. 🙂 You are beautiful as well x!
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