Hello! My first real post...
Hi everyone! I'm Brit and i'm new to weight control and diets and everything else. I was a ballerina almost my entire life and i've always been tall, slender, and athletic.
I joined the military (army. i'm a grunt) got married, and injured my right leg. A combination of gaining excessive amounts of bulky muscle mass from constant exercise and manual labor, plus a husband (men are proven to be high in calories), and prednisone to help heal a shattered tibia and ruptured achilles tendon resulted in a near 70 pound total weight gain and I am at my wits end. Everyone keeps telling me it's the prednisone and that with a few months time my weight will go back down to normal, but I can't stand this. I feel like i'm in a strangers body!
I've never had to diet or watch what I ate before so i'm completely lost when it comes to that. I don't overeat by any means. I'm that annoying girl that will complain about starving ALL day and then eat two bites of a sandwich, or an apple and be full. I also do a lot of manual labor (heavy lifting, etc) and I do at least 60 minutes of intense cardio or strength training every week day. Fridays we do 12 mile ruck marches with 50 pound rucksacks.
I need to get my current size 10 butt back into my size 2 jeans!
Any tips or advice to get me started?
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