I've been preparing my "new healthy lifestyle" for over a month...and it all started today, BUT- something happened on Saturday night that changed my life.
Let me start from the beginning. I weigh 205 lbs right now. I used to weigh 120 lbs 7 years ago. I'm not bragging, but back then I used to get SO MUCH attention from the opposite sex, and I always felt like a pretty girl. These past 5 years have been different. I always feel the "fat girl" in the group. I can't find clothes that fit me (at least not in the styles I want to wear) and I can't take a good picture. How did I let myself get that way? I can pinpoint 5 million different reasons- but it all comes back to me and the choice I MADE.
So Saturday night, my boyfriend and I were invited to dinner at a new local restaurant (it's "THE PLACE" to go right now)...I also found out that my boyfriends best friend would be there with his girlfriend (skinny and gorgeous) as well as his best friend's brother and his girlfriend (also skinny and gorgeous). Well, I sucked it up and put on my best looking fat girl clothes and headed to dinner.
When it came time to be seated, somehow I ended up in between these two girls at the booth. I could just imagine how everyone was looking at me...I probably looked like a huge elephant in between these two girls, not to mention I'm taller than both of them so it looked even worse, and then it hit me. I realized that my lifestyle was about to change, and that I was actually going to be doing something come Monday that would make me feel better about myself no matter what I looked like on the outside.
I always hear people talking about just the mere fact that they were eating healthier made their confidence go way up, regardless of how they still looked on the outside- and I think I've finally joined that group. Just a small victory for me!
What small goals, not related to an actual weight loss number have you achieved?
~Leslie