When I was 14, I was a normal healthy weight. But at that time, everyone had to be super-skinny (guess that hasn’t changed much). So people teased me about my weight. I began dieting. Before I was 17, I had yo-yo dieted my way up to 185 pounds. And so it has gone throughout the last decades. Up 30-50 pounds, down 20-30 pounds, up 20 pounds, down 100 pounds. Etc. Childbearing, of course, adds to the difficulty of maintaining a healthy weight.
After a lifetime of unhealthy eating, I’m not sure my body knows how to achieve a healthy balance. I’m once again on a diet, having gained 20 pounds during a stressful couple of months.
If only that 14 year old girl had known then what I know now.
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