Savoring Health

I am a 21-year-old college student. In spring of 2011 I found myself at the largest I have ever been: 5'3" and 165 lbs. At that moment I decided to start making changes.

TO DO: decrease my portions, eat better quality food, stay active

NEVER: deprive myself of enjoying life, lose weight in an unhealthy way

SW: 165
CW: 125
GW1: 153
GW2: 145
GW3: 135
UGW: 115
Starting size: US size 10
Current size: US size 4-6

TMWLC: Week 2, Day 4

Day XI: What are your family’s eating habits like?

Not good. In my immediate family, the tendency is to eat ridiculously small portions whenever one remembers to, with no planning or real interest in food other than as a necessity, and also to pick at things like cookies or cheese and crackers between meals. A day of food might be: two slices of toast with peanut butter, a few crackers with cheese, a small piece of chicken, a baked potato, and four cookies. Little to no fruits and vegetables EVER.

Growing up, my mother was occasionally good for healthy and delicious meals, but more often was going back and forth between weird extreme diets/fasts, or periods of frequent bulemic episodes.

I also have some relatives outside of my immediate family with whom I am close who are all vegetarian but mostly live on pizza and breakfast cereal because they’re too busy to cook.

So basically, nobody in my family has normal eating habits.

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