My little Hello with a bit of background
Hello, my name is Jaime, I recently turned 24 and currently weigh about 160. I know it doesn't sound that bad, but considering I'm just barely 5'4" and at one point was just under 200 pounds. I'm currently healthy, but just not comfortable with myself.
Lets just take a bit of a step back. As active as I was, I always seemed to be a little heavier than most people. This thought was definitely driven home when I was about 14 visiting family. While getting ready to hop into the pool, my grandmother took one look at me and told me I was getting fat. At the time, I didn't know what to do about the 'fluffy midsection', so I just tried to ignore it.
As I got older, I got bigger. In high school I was around 140, though I looked bigger. I blamed it on everything, poor diet, bad genes, to not being active enough. It was around that time that I tried to lose that weight by spending hours at the gym. After 6 months of going to the gym almost every day for up to two hours a day, I hadn't lost a single pound (still puzzled as to why).
I put on the freshman 15, but lost 5 shortly after the first semester ended. That didn't last long. I ended up moving to another state, but didn't have a job, so I sat around 24/7 watching tv. I cried the day I stepped onto the scale and it read 198. I couldn't believe that I had let myself get so heavy and didn't know where to start 'fixing the problem'.
Right around the same time, I got a job working for a deli in a local grocery chain. I honestly thought I was going to put on more weight because we were always sampling and snacking on extra product. Amazingly I actually lost about 25 pounds in the first 3 months. I thought it was great, but the weight loss stopped there.
I recently lost another 15 pounds, bringing me down to 157ish, which is where I am now. I actually had tried one of the green tea capsules which I found actually did what it claimed. I feel that if I could get some emotional support that I could get back on track and well on my toward my weight-loss goal.
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to 3FC Jaime. 38 pounds lost is awesome 
