I'm your average girl, or so I'd like to think. I'm a 22-year-old student living in the UK. I have a loving family, loving friends and a pretty good life. Yet there's always something which I feel is holding me back. I'm overweight. There, I said it. I rarely say those words out loud. Call it whatever you want; fat, overweight, bigger than what's healthy, incapable of enjoying myself and my life to the fullest. The fact remains the same, I'm not happy with myself.
Like many other girls I'm the sort of person who like to think I can get healthy whenever I'd like. I've thought this for somewhere between five to eight years, yet here I am, still not living to my full potential. I have often told myself "I'm going to start tomorrow", yet when tomorrow comes I'm still doing the same old mistakes I've been doing for years. Sometimes I start with an intense workout session which leaves me so stiff and tired the next day that I quit because I'm unable to keep going. Other times I go cold turkey on all the things I love to eat, like chocolate. When it becomes too intense I crack and eat all the chocolate I missed out on when I was 'fasting' from it.
This time I want to do it differently, which is why I'm writing this blog. I have lost weight in the past, last time I lost about 15 kg, but put it all back on within a year. Why? Because I was unable to see the change. I'm hoping that by writing about the things I'm doing will help me see the changes I've made and encourage me to go further. The first thing I'm going to do is cut out sugar. More specifically - chocolate. I know I just said this was one of my mistakes in the previous paragraph, however I'm hoping that by documenting it here I'll be more likely to not crack.
I'll check in tomorrow.
- Anna
