I'm an avid lurker of these forums via smartphone and since I finally got my hands on my little sisters laptop I decided its about time to finally say hello...
So, uh, Heyyyy guys....
My name is Caitlin or Caity or Cait whichever is fine with me! I'm twenty years old and I've been overweight my whole life. I remember going from a childrens size 16, to a women's size 10 in about the 7th grade. I clearly didn't realize at the time that wasn't okay. It was a smaller number, I wasn't complaining. I'm overweight because of the poor eating habits I developed as a child and carried with me throughout my teen years. I have very young parents who didn't know any better then to send me off to school everyday with a lunchable or can of raviolis, I would come home heat up takeout leftovers from dinner the night before because how filling can 6 crackers and about .5 oz of turkey circles w/ a side of kitkat really be?Then I'd eat more takeout for dinner usually in the form of breaded chicken nuggets smothered in ranch dressing... How nutritious...
Then in highschool I upgraded... I got a fresh twenty dolla bill ya'll! Buy whatever you want Caitlin! Which was like french fries everyday with like 2 cups of meatballs in marinara sauce... Then I'd hit up the vendng machines and chow down on bags of hott cheetos. OH I totally forgot I also had my breakfast at school as well, where hashbrowns costed only 25 cents. It was a dream come true.
When I was 16 I realized I hadn't gotten my period in 9 months or so and I was diagnosed with PCOS. This was also the first time I was told that I weighed 240 lbs. My lady doctor told me I had to lose 80 lbs. 80 lbs say whaaaat? Yea right. I didn't care. Me and my mom went straight from the doctors and ate at the California Pizza Kitchen for Lunch.
My aunts did take some initiative and bought me some fresh Nikes and signed me up for a 2 year gym membership. I went for a couple months got down to around 226 and then no one wanted to take me to the gym anymore and I didn't drive. This resulted in me being frustrated and just crying a lot. I gave up trying.
Then later that summer I got my first job working at Potbellys! What a name right? Its a sandwhich shop mostly in the midwest I think. I was working around 35 hours a week and was in all A.P and honors classes, President of this club, Treasurer or that club, NHS, Yaddah Yaddah Yaddah. I worked most days after school and didn't get a chance to eat until my shift was over around 11 p.m at night. I would shove a roast beef sandwhich, bag of chips, oatmeal cookie and can of pop everynight down my throat every night. I was back up to 240 in no time. I didn't mind to stick around when they offered me a promotion.
After I graduated highschool I decided I wanted to be a vegetarian. I stopped eating meat and quickly lost 20 lbs because I just didn't know what to eat. Then I just decided to eat Mac n Cheese all the time and gained it all right back. I was also working at Torrid part time and It just felt natural to be 240 lbs. I was around beautiful plus sized women all the time.
January of this year my Aunt decided to hold a biggest loser competition. The competition was a bust when said Aunt got a little jealous when I decided I was going to go at this hardcore. I lost 50 lbs pretty quickly when I started running and put down the mac n cheese. I'm calorie counting right now just keeping up with my running and want to lose around 50 more lbs while my body is cooperating with me. OH ALSO! I've totally had my monthly visits for like the last 6 months! That is more than I've ever had consecutively ever. So there is hope out there for all you PCOSers!
So now that you know my life story, hopefully there was enough comic relief in there to keep you around... A few picturesss? eh? I don't have any like "official" ones or anything.. The first 2 are of me at my aunts 70's block party and the other 2 are just recent pics from being out.
Whadddup Chickas! Life Story here
