Monday, February 25, 2013

TO DIE...et ...AGAIN!

 
 
Cooking healthy!
 
I wish I could tell you that after I had lost my weight after that grapefruit diet I had stayed nice and slim and had maintained or adopted healthy habits.  I didn't.  School ended so that meant my running and weight training class ended too.  Of course without a motivator I was hardly running and I mentioned that the grapefruit eating was out the window? Actually any kind of healthy eating was not happening.  When summer came, another major change came.  I decided not to go home, so I got a job that was temporary.  Then I picked up a job at Burger King! Which was one of the many bad habits I already had and working there wasn't going to help my new views.  See one of the things that did permanently change in me was the knowledge that I looked better when I wasn't my "average" self.  
After a while the only exercise I was getting was walking to and from the bus stop which thankfully were good brisk walks atleast.  I'm sure you've guessed that I returned pretty quickly to my average  size which of course bothered me.  However, after awhile even staying average was getting difficult. I wasn't physically active with real sport activity and I was eating plenty of junk.  I have a friend who has always eaten healthy.  Veggies are her main course most times or healthy portions of veggies are always encouraged by her.  I was just living like a typical college kid and American.  Fast pace, fast food and slow metabolism.  This went on with my body while my life continued to move forward.  I was dating and very inlove so I was expecting to be married soon, but I must admit that I had a twinge of fear that perhaps my boyfriend didn't love me THAT much.  For that season I wasn't too preoccupied with my size and weight.  Or mostly I ignored it since my boyfriend liked me just the way I was. :) I hoped....
Then it happened! my love asked me to marry him and I was rejoicing! I rejoiced so much that when he went on "West Pac" I celebrated with all kinds of good food and desserts all the while putting on the pounds! I was at that moment a bit oblivious to it, but my good friend shocked me back into reality. I had better get busy with planning and stop eating so much!  Then,  all those things that happen to a "bride to be" happened me! Nerves, stresses, emotional breakdowns, wedding planning nightmares, fatigue, fear and on and on the list can go.  Pretty soon, in the last days before my wedding day I was that "thinner average" that I had seen before.  I had lost 2 sizes and 25lbs.  It was great!  And this time I hadn't gone on a diet again.  Unfortunately I didn't realize that the weight hadn't just magically come off, the stress of wedding planning had squeezed it off!  At that point I was just liking this place again.

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