My Story

My Story

In high school, I was always “healthy.” I swam five days a week for my high school’s swim team, ate when I needed to, didn’t drink, and didn’t really splurge. I was a very healthy 140ish? at 5’5” and honestly happy (despite the obvious and normal high school drama, of course). This was me my junior and/or senior year:

Cut to my senior year, when I chose to work as much as humanly possible at Texas Roadhouse instead of continuing on with my swimming. I didn’t realize it at the time, but when I stopped swimming I started gaining. Three years later, I had gained almost 40 pounds, but because my mom just kept buying me bigger clothes, I never realized it - seriously. I was unhappy and fell into a depression that I self-medicated. Busch Light may be cheap and great for beer pong but it’s horrific for your waistline. 

I ended up tipping the scales at probably close to 230lbs but I never weighed myself so I’m not sure if that’s entirely true. It wasn’t until we got back from our vacation in Europe that I realized just truly how big I had gotten. This was me with my dad, my (then boyfriend, now husband), and just me in Europe:

I knew I needed to make a change, so I did. I started running and lifting weights more consistently, I cut out meat, and I only drank a few beers on Friday and/or Saturday instead of every single night. I felt better, I looked better, my relationship with everyone around me was better. I ended up going from 230+ to 160 by July 2012. It was amazing.

And then I got pregnant. That was obviously an incredible experience and I have a fantastic (almost) 2 year old running around now. But I tipped the scales, once again, at 227+ lbs. I know, getting pregnant is a good reason to gain weight but I didn’t need to gain that much weight. I’ve managed to get back down a little ways but I have a long ways to go. 

This picture shows one year's difference:

This is me and my family on my birthday:

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