So for the first 23 years of my life I was quite the athlete. I played basketball almost religiously through my teen years and later switched to lifting weights. It all went downhill when I moved away to to attend a school in a different city, different province. I weighed 230 pounds. There I really found joy and comfort in food. It was there I learned to binge eat. Very quickly the pounds packed on. Then a whole new level of problems arose. I become self-conscious of my appearance, started avoiding socializing, and developed a real love (and need) for eating. My weekends turned into movie nights with ordered-in pizza and a whole host of unhealthy snacks and treats. It became the only thing that I would look forward to, and there's the cycle; eat more, get bigger, go out less, eat more to feel better. I came back two years later, weighing around 290 pounds and had developed the worst eating habits. It's now 7 years later and I've only gained more weight.
Over the last week I added over a minute of running to my cardio days, added more weight to my lifting days, and today I weigh 313. The tough question is how to keep things up? How to prevent from falling back into my old habits? Well.....at least I've lost some weight so far.
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