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And also maintain the new weight that I have now!
This happened back at the beginning of quarantine in 2020. It was a dark time for me.
I spent most of my days inside, both binge-watching and eating at the same time! My diet was filled with so much processed food.
It was heaven at first. Who wouldn’t want the comfort of that lifestyle? To just relax all day without any stress in the world. Spoiling yourself with food that other people will be lucky to have!
But, one day something suddenly clicked.
After eating and drinking the recommended sugar for a week in one day, my body screamed at me.
I knew something had to change!
Honestly, I’m grateful for the excess amounts of eating because I felt so disgusted with the junk food!
I felt like I was on the brink of diabetes — or worse.
So, I decided to take my last intentional bites of processed food. The last bottle of coke.
I weighed myself — 120 pounds! That’s going to change.
The day after, it began.
I was filled with so much motivation to change. To transform into someone better. To escape the yucky feeling.
I found my mother’s purple skipping rope and it all started with that!
I started off small — 1 minute or a set amount of skips, like 100 skips.
I did this every single day.
Until the 1 minute turned into 10, and the 100 skips turned into 1,000!
I kept looking at the mirror and the scale. The progress was unbelievable! I reached 100 pounds in 2–3 weeks.
(Back then I didn’t know this was unhealthy)
So, I kept going!
I was addicted to the progress that I didn’t notice that I was barely eating. I reduced and crashed my calorie intake down to 1000 calories a day.
That’s bad. Honestly, If I can change anything in that journey, It’s the diet.
My relationship with food became distant.
I only kept skipping rope in the morning while I’m fasted and once in the afternoon to burn off the food that I ate for lunch.
That was the key to my weight loss — the best cardio, skipping rope.
And 3 months later I visited my aunts and they were both surprised and horrified at what I looked like. I was skin and bones!
I was 50 LBS!
But I thought I looked great! (looking back at it now, I agree with them.)
I’m grateful for their criticism though because after that situation Christmas came and I decided to treat myself and binge.
This made me have a healthy relationship with food again!
I maintained a healthy weight of 70 LBS!
I did this by portioning my food to where I am actually satisfied.
I loved that weight more.
The best thing I’ve learned in that journey is this:
Use obsession wisely.
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