. I'm a 20-year-old female and my weight is something I've struggled with since puberty. Throughout most of high school, my weight problems kept me from feeling confident and beautiful, and I felt like I was always struggling to disguise or hide my body because I hated it and was ashamed of it.I'm short, so managing weight has always been annoying for me since even 5 pounds can look like a dramatic weight gain at 5'3" :P. I was at my heaviest when I was around 14, at 158 I think. Regardless of the number, though, what's important is that I was so unhealthy; my food choices and everyday diet were awful, I constantly overate, I got chest pains nightly (at 14!), and honestly, if I had continued in that vein, I'm sure I would be much heavier (and much less healthy) today. Thankfully I got my affairs in order, went on South Beach Diet, and lost 13 pounds. Going on that diet helped me make lifestyle changes in the way I ate which ultimately kept the weight off for me.
I've stayed in a pretty good range ever since then, but now I want to try to lose a little more. I know I don't need a hugely dramatic weight loss- in all honesty, I'm just trying to be a healthier person. I want to make better eating choices and habits for myself (I still have little self-control when it comes to food) and I want to exercise so that I can be active and fit, and a better body will hopefully come out of it. Even though I'm not as heavy as I used to be, the belly pudge and love handles/muffin top are still there (I just know how to dress them now!) and still haunting me, and I'd like to see them go. I want to learn to love myself, be confident in my own skin, and embrace and stop being ashamed of my short little pear body, and I hope that I'll find the resources to help me along my journey here and the opportunity to offer others support as well
.This is way too long of an intro post, sorry :P.
