Sorry in advance for long-ness
Ok, I've been reading a lot of great threads in this section and know that there are a few of you that really know your stuff, and I just want a couple opinions on what you think might be going on with my sitch because I'm unsure how to proceed. Ok, so I've always been a big girl, slightly overweight, slightly fat, a bit chubby, whatever you want to call it. I have never been able to push my bmi into the "healthy" range, which just really grinds my gears. Like, I'm not asking to be a size 2 here, a 6 would be great and perfectly acceptable at my height.
I previously just put it all down to getting crap genetics from my father as all of the women on that side of my family are large as well, at a size 10/12 I'm the smallest on that side of my family other than my sister, who has my mom's genes and is a cute and tiny chick. And its not like I ballooned all of a sudden either, if anything it's gotten better the further away from puberty and teenhood I've gotten. Lately I've been wondering if there could be some kind of underlying health condition though. The last four months I have been feeling uber depressed and tired allllll the time. Again, I wrote it off as being because of school. I also gained 10lbs in the same time period. I thought it was because of school and being stressed out constantly and not being able to sleep or feed myself as well as I would have liked, which may have been partially true, but I'm a pretty healthy eater. I rarely eat more than 1500 calories a day. I don't go to the gym, but am active, I bike everywhere, usually about 40 minutes a day and walk a lot, play on my pole, etc.
Last summer when I started dancing I completely changed the way I eat, I almost entirely cut out sugar, started really limiting my carbs and started eating a lot more lean chicken, fish, and eggs, increased veggies and fruits, etc, stopped eating late at night, etc. I also started cycling 4x a week for an hour. It took TWO months before I saw any changes AT ALL, which was extremely frustrating in itself and then over the entire summer I lost only 15 pounds. Over 5 months. Sorry, but wtf? You would think that that many changes would show a lot better results? And does it not make sense that someone that eats what I do and does that level of activity should have a weight in the normal range? Forgive me please for whining, but I'm tired of being "fat" while doing all these things that are supposed to lead to weight loss and just are not working. I'm tired of ballooning if I slip up for a short period of time. I just have an inkling and before I go bust my ass again all summer trying to get down to an "acceptable" weight and am dissappointed again, I thought it might be a good idea to get bloodwork and get things checked out. Feel free to tell me that I'm just doomed to fatdom forever, that would suck but like I said, I accepted it before, and can again. I would soooo love for that not to be the case though.



. Like, I'm not asking to be a size 2 here, a 6 would be great and perfectly acceptable at my height.
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) and I wear a 10, sometimes a 12 to accomodate my boobies
I have a HELL of a hard time getting under 170, so I was pretty happy when I was for a bit in december/january.



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