I have been around the weight loss block enough to know the story that so many of us share. I'll be honest my story isn't very far off from most of the weight loss stories I have read. I'll be honest I saw the scale read 210 and I was crushed! I felt so uncomfortable in my own skin and hated myself for it. I was heading off to college and the dreaded "freshman 15" was eerily haunting me. I knew if I wanted to change the way I saw myself I was going to have to drastically change my life. This picture was taken on July 10, 2017 it is the only full body picture I have from the summer of 2017 because I was so embarrassed of the way I looked. And even then I was sucking in my gut so hard I couldn't breathe. Just two days after this photo was taken I met someone that forever changed my life. I now look up to him as a role model and a mentor. He had previously served for over 20 years in the United States Army. I told him that I had tried to join the Army and it was less than successful and HE LAUGHED! Now I was shocked! But I needed an explanation for his laughter. He must have seen the question on my face because he said "I've heard that from more than one person, and I've seen those same people commissioned into the Army." I was taken aback. How the rules were the rules! Simply put if you are overweight by more than a certain percent you can not join the Army. It turns out this man was affiliated with the ROTC at my college. He told me "Show up on the first day for PT (Physical Training) and we will get you there." He was so matter of fact about it that I had no choice but to believe him. He seemed confident in me and I wasn't even confident in me! **Spoiler Alert** You can be sure I showed up for the first day of PT in September and completely fell in love with the program. After speaking to him in July I struggled to get back onto the weight loss wagon. I was working 40+ hours a week at a physically strenuous job with little time to eat on breaks. I rarely ate more than 1 meal a day some days I just didn't have time to eat at all. And my days off I spent all day eating and my body was desperate for calories. It was during this time that I actually put on 5 lbs! In August I decided enough was enough I needed to lose weight before going to school in September and found an extreme diet... Any experienced dieter knows what I'm talking about. A diet that restricts your calories to next to 0 and eating a "meal" leaves you hungry and unsatisfied. Yup I was MISERABLE!!! Literally I was B*tch for over 10 days I was on this diet and lost 2 lbs starving myself. I gave it up out of pure hunger and ended up gaining the 2 lbs back by the time school started. These pictures were taken the day I left for school. I thought before the pictures were taken that I'd love to have a cute picture for Instagram showing my big day of moving into college. Instead I ended up crying when I saw these photos. I'm still cringing. And so in my farewell I present to you my official "before" photos...
Join me on my journey, Meg
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MegI am an 18 year old premed student. I am on my journey of losing 80 lbs! You can follow my progress on my blog and my YouTube channel Journey With Meg. Archives
February 2018
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