To sum it up, I am 24 years old, I am ALMOST 5’2” and weigh 157 pounds. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that is not the healthy body weight of someone my height.
The majority of my life I have been “well above my healthy body weight”.
I come from a family who has a complete love affair/addiction to food. My whole life I have never been told “NO” when it came to food, I vividly remember at the age of 12 being at a Chinese buffet and beating my cousin in a “chicken ball eating contest” with a whopping 18 chicken balls….12 years old. They were all delicious, but some adult figure should have put a stop to that idea. So needless to say, when there is no restriction on food, and a plethora of delicious food around you your whole life, and vegetables were not really in that spread, you are bound to have a little extra weight on your body.
It was my second year of college when I finally decided to do something about it. I was at my fattest, like morbidly obese fat. On my tiny frame, I was packing a hefty 172 pounds. The even fatter number was my BMI….42%. For people who don’t know what that means, it means almost half my body was fat. Sick eh? I was away at school, and it was the perfect time to get fit. In 4 months, I got down to 138 pounds. It was all about working out, I had all the time in the world, I spent hours at the gym, 5 days a week. The working out thing legitimately works!
Then enter real life: I graduated school, got myself a real job, bought a house with my boyfriend, pursued other interests in life, and so disappeared all my free time. The gym was fun while it lasted, and so were the 130’s. On top of that, we always are entertaining or being entertained, which results in bad food choices, like Doritos & Sour Cream and Onion Ruffles..amazing. Slowly but surely the weight crept back on.
To expand on that to give you a little bit better idea of me, as I said, I am 24 years old. I have a boyfriend of almost 7 years, we have a cute little house on a cute little street. I work in sales, I love baseball, and shopping. I have quite an addictive personality (food being a big one), and I live in a suburb of Toronto. As I go along, I am sure you will learn more about me, as I am going to try and make this blog both a journal of Doing the Dukan but also bring in blogging about my life.
I realize there are the people out there who say “Just eat well and exercise, you will lose weight”. I get that, I have lived it and I couldn’t agree more, but where I am in life, is not where I need to be to be able to facilitate the above statement. I need something that I can transition into my life and doesn’t take hours of commitment in my busy schedule. I would rather eat a chicken breast & watch episodes of Glee when I have a free hour then be sweating my tata’s off on the treadmill.
So now it is almost time to start Doing the Dukan. A big part of any diet is the limitation on food, and the inconvienence of the whole thing. Buying one set of groceries for me, one set for my boyfriend, just isn’t realistic & plus the time involved to make 2 meals. When I came across this diet my first thought was: “Wow, I could continue to buy our regular groceries, eat our everyday meals and just not have the rice or potatoe side dishes”. It’s kind of genius really. All of the meats in this diet are what we consume on virtually a daily basis, with the exception of Bacon, which miserably doesn’t fall under the “LOW FAT PROTEIN” category.
So that’s a little background on me, and my struggle with being fat. Hopefully through deciding to blog about this journey, it will keep me on track to reach my goal and get me to where I want to be in life.
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