I eventually moved to Chile ( a story on its own and thus the reason this blog was born way back when) and lost within the first year 20 pounds, just due to the change in lifestyle. People actually walk here and my food wasn't packed with chemicals. My second year I lost 50 pounds, but mostly due to starvation and stress, therefore gaining immediately 35 pounds while at home for the holidays.This obviously made me realize starvation was not the way to go ( if I was given the choice). Third year I started dating, new school, busier schedule...and it all went out the window. I lost no pounds,despite doing cardio and strength videos every other day and attempting to cut red meat from my life.My body did reshape due to the exercises but I was still left with that shapeless huge belly.When 2013 started , I was tired of it all. I was tired of being told my entire life to stop eating potato chips and soda.Two things that are rarely in my diet ( I can only sip soda...it get boring after a couple sips and I want my water again). I was tired of being asked " Well you should probably exercise." I was going to beat my slow metabolism and diabetic obstacles. A month before coming back to Chile Melanie and I made a deal, we were going to compete to see who could lose more weight by December. Both of out goals being to reach 180 pounds(which for me is a size 10-12). To headstart our mission, we did the slimfast diet along with the videos I had already been using. With Melanie losing faster than myself, though we were doing the exact same thing, I began to do my research. I began using SparkPeople.Com and adding the elliptical to the videos. By mi-February, I had lost 8 pounds.
February 21, 2013, I was ready. I was in Santiago .It was Beautiful. And I was only blocks from Parque Bustamante. The year before I had not taken advantage of this but I wasn't going to let it go by me.So to put it short, I began, and still am, jogging. I try to go for 6 days a week, but slipped during May since my mother and sister was here. I now weight 220 pounds. I know it's still "fat" but here is where my rant begins.
Not everyone is born skinny. Not everyone is born with the same metabolism. Not everyone is born in the same culture. With this said, and you now knowing my struggle with weight loss story ( which is only the major part,I'm not going into me doing 100 crunches every night when I was 15 and not seeing one bit of results) I want to claim that I'm sick and tired of already thin people being praised for losing even more weight. Ok,you gained some birthing fat,it's a part of life and its a thing all on its own.You're a size 10 and now a size 8?Good for you.I'm not criticizing them. Being healthy is obviously the more important issue, but the fact that society praises them yet is eager to "give advice" to the fat girls out there that are trying baffles me.
Not all "fat"girls are victims,per-say. There are various whom sit around eating all the time and hate the idea of exercise.Lazy bums. But if they're happy with their bodies, then let them eat that cake! I'm not going to tell them how to live.What gets me upset is that there are many of us "fat" girls trying to change our bodies, yet mother nature is against us. One of the Pictures below shows how I was in 2009 in comparison to now.I'm still being told every day by some kind of person assuming to know everything that I need to " change my habits". I'm practically vegetarian and jog/lift weights rather often. I'm sorry Mr. Self AcclaimDietician...but I'm ok with my habits.
What I'm getting at is that perhaps we should think before we judge.( cliche...yes..I know..stay with me...) I know it's an idea we've been taught since infants, but honestly, in the world we've created, nothing is how it should.We've allowed so many things to get into our minds that ethics and perception have taken a back seat.
Acknowledge the chubby girl who was once fat.She may not post her "before" and "after" pics all over facebook, but she's woking hard at it, perhaps she still feels too "fat" to post her accomplishments.
I know this blog was horribly written, but I can't figure out a good way to express this frustration I've had.I needed to just write it as it is. There are other things going on in my life that I needed to at least get one thing off my chest.
tienes razon, la gente juzga a la velocidad de la luz, no les importa realmente lo que te suceda, les importa sentirse con la altura moral de corregirte.
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