New Low
191!!!!!!!!
The last time I weighed this I was probably a senior in high school.
Now I am a middle aged grandma to be who is stepping into the person I always thought I was: active, exuberant, and healthy!!
Getting healthier every day!!
Kudos to me for continuing to take charge of my life.
169 is right around the corner.
My body becomes lighter.
The emotional weight holding me down become lighter.
My metabolism burns off the old weight.
I am inspired by my life.
Everything is going my way.
Every day in every way, I feel lighter and more free.
I love exercising now.
Walking is easier.
Running is easier.
I FEEL LIGHT AND FREE EVEN AS I RUN UP STAIRS I USED TO STRUGGLE WITH.
Light and free! Light and free! Light and free!
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For my entire life people have told me I am "naturally athletic". I am not "naturally athletic": I am an asthmatic with historically really poor cardio health and joints that partially dislocate themselves if I put pressure on them slightly weird. What I *am* is naturally tall and slender, even more so when I did absolutely no physical activity and ate very little because my neurodivergent body didn't give me hunger signals, which most people mistake for "naturally athletic".
That's not to say I don't have the potential for athleticism. My mother, who has never been under 250 pounds my entire life, is built of sheer farm girl muscle, has stellar blood pressure and cardio health despite her weight, and could (and has!) bodily haul me and my grown brother around like we weigh nothing. When I was a kid the woman was biking triathlon distances before we were even awake for school. The woman is an ATHLETE, and her whole life she has been obese (and heard from everyone and their dogs that she needs to lose weight).
I'm not sure where I'm going with this long piece of anecdotal evidence, except to say: my whole life I heard I was naturally athletic, until I actually became athletic. Because the thing is, I put on muscle like my mom. It fills out my shoulders and arms and makes me look big, thick, and barrel chested. "Genetically beefy", as my brother puts it. And suddenly I wasn't getting comments about my athleticism anymore. I'm quite literally the healthiest I've ever been. I can run for miles, lift my weight, my balance and heart health are excellent. I'm just bigger now. And not one stranger has a comment about my physique since I got fit. Because I don't look like what they think "naturally athletic" is.
I guess what I'm saying is, maybe don't let your perception of what "athleticism" or "health" LOOKS like color your perception of like. People's actual health.
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Always an angel, never a god.
Always ⭐️ving, never loosing.
Always sick, never sick enough.
Always normal, never skinny.
Always an angel, never a god.
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I recognise you; I know you again, from a dream or another life […]
Jeanette Winterson, from ‘Weight’
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