I have had weight and eating issues pretty much since I was very young. I had Pica as a young child, I had binge eating problems starting pretty early, and this led to me dealing with ED's most of my teen and adult life. I also am pretty unlucky in the fact that I gain weight very easily. My husband thought I was joking, but the longer we were together, the more he realized that I seriously have no metabolism. I have to eat very, very healthy and exercise very often to maintain my weight. I also take many medications, including anti-psychotics which are notorious for causing weight gain. I also have a weird thyroid and hyperglycemia. So it is the perfect storm for me being overweight. I would say I am not as eating disordered as I have been most of my life, but I still have issues with binging, craving sweets. I am proud of myself because I have not binged and purged since Summer 2017. I quit smoking about 6 years ago, and it was so much easier to keep the weight off when I smoked. also i'm only 5'2" so every bit of weight shows easily on me.
So Summer 2018 I found myself more over weight than I have ever been, by a significant amount. I was morbidly obese, and I was so out of shape I could barely walk, I had asthma and I didn't recognize myself in the mirror. My skin was terrible, constantly covered with acne...which is very unusual for me. The only time I have had acne before was when I was 24 and it only lasted like 6 months. Part of the reason I got so unhealthy and fat was because I was in a really, really bad way mentally, I was on a lot of medication and I literally just laid on the couch or in bed almost all day. It was getting to the point that even if I went to my friends I would just pass out there. I'll go into more details about this at another time.Also I ate bad foods, sweets and delivery foods everyday. So anyways, Summer 2018 I found myself in terrible health. I have blood tests quite often due to medication and they check all my levels. I was told that I was pre-diabetic and I really needed to take control of my health. I was very scared. I started to eat a little better.
In October 2017 I briefly tried to eat better, and I went Vegan for a month. I lost weight, felt healthier...but I went back to my old ways of binge eating pizza and sweets in November. In September 2018 I decided that I wanted to try to go mostly Vegan and seriously try to exercise as much as I could. I signed up for the 8fit app and got the vegan diet as my food choice. I have been a vegetarian on and off most of my life. When I was young I went Vegetarian, but ate meat again from 2003-2009 (I didn't eat a lot of meat then, but I did have it sometimes) In 2009 I got food poisoning from meat and decided I was just done. I have not eaten meat since. I originally became interested in Veganism in the earl;y 2000's but it was too difficult at the time for me, things are so much easier now. I haven't drank milk since maybe, 1994? but I still ate cheese, I loved cheese. But in the past year my body really hasn't liked most animal products, I started to get very sick from dairy especially. So this September I decided to finally try to eat almost completely Vegan. This is one of the best choices I have ever made for myself.
