It's been a while
 

Hi All! :)

It's been quite some time since I last used this forum and a lot has changed for me. Last year I ran a 1/2 marathon, I got in the mid 120's and was feeling really strong! My Fiance at the time broke up with me the night before my 30th birthday, I was absolutely devastated, we had been together for 7 years, but now looking back I wasn't so much devastated about not being with him, but just everything I had known for the last 7 years would be no more, I had to move, I moved too far from my job so I had to quit....tons of stuff changed and quite frankly it was so overwhelming. For 2 weeks I had no appetite at all, I lived on coffee and alcohol~ it was a rough 2 weeks with a lot of hangovers! I dropped all the way down to 121 without even trying. I woke up one day and told myself that I had to move on and pull myself together and stop feeling sorry for myself. Soon after I met someone wonderful, it was very unexpected, but I embraced it and now we have been together for 7.5 months and I am tremendously happy with him! While with my new guy I went back up to 130'ish, I gained that happy in a new relationship weight, but I still felt good, he makes me feel amazing and compliments me is the most beautiful ways. My boyfriend is deployed and I vowed to start and complete p90x, I'm on my 2nd week and it's going great, I already feel stronger and I'm proud of myself because those workouts are no joke. My goal is to get to 115 by the time he returns late in year and I would also like to complete another 1/2 marathon this Sept. I noticed that since my ex and I parted ways that I no longer binge eat and I very seldom crave junk food, I think I was unhappy in the relationship for a long time, but never even realized that was such a big source of unhappiness. I couldn't tell you the last time I ate fast food, I almost never eat sweets and I haven't binge ate once since we broke up. I think I was subconsciously filling the void in my relationship with food, I felt very unfulfilled and unappreciated. Everything happens for a reason though, or so I believe and I'm happier than ever.

I'm glad to be back, I found this forum very helpful in the past! I just wanted to reintroduce myself. :carrot:

Hope you all have a happy day!

Welcome back bananapancakes!

I'm relatively new here, only about 5-6 weeks but finding the forum so helpful for staying on track.

Glad to hear you have come through that breakup ok (actually better!) Good luck on your weight loss journey!

Good for you on taking back your life and having a fitness goal in mind!

:welcome: BACK!!

Welcome back! I'm sorry that you had to go through so much, but it seems like everything is working out really well for you now. :D

That sounds that a rough time period but I'm glad things are doing so much better now. You seem very strong. Welcome back!

I remember you! I was here the same time as you and left for a while because I was pregnant. Now that I am finally losing the baby weight I feel like I can show my face again. I don't like to come here unless I can move my ticker down!

Sorry you went through such a bad time, but it seems that you came through a stronger, better person!