How about I start with the short version and I'll do a more detailed one below? Sounds good (I don't really care what anyone else's opinion is on this one).
When did I first become aware of my weight? Grade school. I'm 5'6" (now), have a pretty muscular build (then and now) and was really into running (then, wish I was now). My dad was the Cross Country and Track coach at the local high school, so I spent most of my childhood going to meets and dreaming about being an Olympic runner.
My crush in 5th grade told me that I had big thighs and I was mortified. I started trying to eat healthier, but really had no idea what I was doing. And so the cycle began. Looking back now I realize that I wasn't fat. I wasn't even chubby when I first started thinking I was. However, by 9th grade I was 20 lbs. overweight and going through some pretty rough stuff. How did I handle this? I stopped eating. Lost a ton of weight, ran at least 10 miles/day and was just as self-conscious as I was before. After almost a year of eating lettuce and cucumbers (with a little salt on both), I started eating normal foods again and it has been downhill since then. Or should I say uphill since my weight has done nothing but climb?
By freshmen year in college I was 190. I got really into power lifting my junior year, so I dropped down to the upper 170s, but when my Dad got really sick my Senior year and I had to withdraw from college, the weight piled back on. By the time I returned to school a year later, I was in the 2teens. Add in the Jerry Springer quality relationship I was in and it equals just over 250 by the time I was 25. Miserable break-up, single life and lots of comfort food, 320 by 28. On January 1, 2013 I weighed in at 322.4 lbs. April 15, 2013 I weighed in at 252.2lbs. Enter drama central and lots of emotional eating and I jumped back up to 280 by October of 2013. A bootcamp membership from Nov.-February got me down to 247.4 lbs. And then I decided to try and quit smoking...
So here we are now. I have restarted for the ump-teenth time. I managed to keep off just shy of 40 lbs. when I regained this past year, but I still have quite a ways to go before I'm even close to a healthy weight.
All time highest weight: 322.4
Starting point this time around (hopefully last time): 283.4.
Goal: 170 (I'd love to see 150, but my doctors aren't sure if that's realistic considering my build)
PICTURES!!!
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| 5th Grade: The year I really became conscious of the fact that I was built differently than the girls all the boys seemed to like. |
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| I loved me some hot running tights! |
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| Freshman year (14 y/o in this pic): Roughly 20 lbs. Overweight |
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| End of 10th grade, starting to put weight back on. |
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| In-Between Junior and Senior Year (Far Right). |
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| Senior Prom: ~190 lbs. |
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| Visiting college friends, Spring 2006 (I had withdrawn from college for a year to help my parents as my dad was extremely ill). |
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| 26 y/o: ~270 (2nd from left) |
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| 28 y/o: 320 lbs. |
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