Reblog to ease someone’s anxiety. Even if its just a little 🌼

We’re all so proud of you Miller. 

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Keys to losing fat:

That's it. No weird, restrictive or temporary diets. No magic workouts that claim to make you ripped in a week. Just a slow change of lifestyle, taking care of yourself every day and learning to love and enjoy the process.

True I lost 25kg that way. People get upset when I say how I lost it though. I feel like they want me to say you have to cut certain foods out to lose fat. somehow makes them feel better. I’m just happy I don’t have to go on a crazy diet to lose weight. This way it’s much easier to stay at a healthy weight.

Exactly! Some people get upset when I say this because we have been lead to believe in quick fixes. This is just the simple truth in losing weight and keeping it off. So many people overcomplicate it with these crazy diets when it's actually pretty simple.

And damn 25 kg?? That's amazing 🙌🏽 great job!

Why is it that people are so convinced that to be healthy you must starve yourself? Why do they think that any sort of moderation in eating is equivalent to anorexia? It’s moronic.

a reminder for me

i am in control. i control my body. i control my arms and my hands. i control what food i pick up and put into my mouth. i control what food i buy with my money. i control whether or not i exercise. everything i do is my choice. i am strong and capable of making the right choices.

need to hear this again

Let’s talk about my weight for a minute

It all started with this picture.  

I had to start wearing sports bras cuz regular bras dug into my extra fat and it was painful.  I went to take a selfie and noticed my back rolls in the mirror and started to cry.

Back then I had it in my head that I couldn’t be beautiful unless I was small and fit.  If I could go back, I’d hug that girl and tell her just how beautiful she really is.

I made a choice to change and ran with it.

No more back rolls!  Despite being “small” I was still self-conscious about my hips.  With a weight goal of 125, hitting 127 was good enough for me.  I went back to eating burgers and fries and skipping the gym because I was small now so my metabolism would keep me small, right?  All the other girls were eating burgers and fries and not exercising so I could too, right?

Wrong.  I gained back ~15 pounds after going through a break-up with a toxic person who was basically the devil on my shoulder.  I’d want to hit the gym and make a healthy dinner but he was “HUNGRY NOW” a lot so we did a lot of Netflix and takeout.  The bad habits stuck after the break-up.

Angled selfies to make my face look thinner and wearing clothes that disguised my size.  Yep, I gained back another 10 pounds, but you can’t tell in this t-shirt dress though, right?  No one could know what my actual body looked like.

More than 10 pounds later, I started off the new year over 170.  I cried about it a few times then told myself that I will love myself no matter my size.  I dressed cute and did my make-ups how I like and did my best to eat good food.

Then I got to my highest weight of 2019 and the highest weight since being 200 pounds.  I remember trying to take this sexy picture and just feeling like a lumpy potato.  And again, the bra was digging in and it hurt!

I decided to make a change, again.  A restart, again.  Because success is about trying, failing and learning so we can try again with new information and fail again and learn from it.  It’s a cycle that will end in success as long as we keep TRYING!  Giving up is the real failure (unless it’s giving up cigarette smoking, which I did, June 29th, 2018 WOO!)

Knowing I needed a good challenge to get me motivated, I did Whole30 and it completely changed the way I think about food.  I used food to celebrate, to calm me down, to perk me up, to fill a void…  

Now I think of food as fuel, delicious yummy fuel so my body can go and do things like hike mountains, lift weights, run, ski, snowshoe and hopefully soon.. PULL UPS!!

So here we are today.  The lightest I’ve been in well over a year and the strongest I’ve ever been in my entire life.  I am no longer obese, yet still ‘overweight’ at 152.2 pounds.

I curl 20-pound dumbbells, bench an 80-pound loaded barbell, squat 140 pounds so low that my butt is below my knees and I eat like I love myself.  I eat vegetables with every meal and fruits are my go-to snack.  I ate an orange the other day that literally tasted like a starburst candy.  I’m nowhere near where I want to be but DAMN I sure love where I am right now!

I’d like to add that even though I get great fitness advice from my best bud Ryan and support from my amazing Jeffrey and everyone else here on Tumblr, it was still ME that made all these choices.  It was ME that put in the work.  It was ME that changed my mindset.  And it will be ME that keeps pushing forward and conquering my goals.

It’s not selfish to focus on your health.  Remember that.

A Great Guide

fucking thank you

“It’s really hard to exercise” then lower your caloric intake. I hate working out, so I just cut out sugar and refined carbs. It works wonders, but takes an immense amount of self control.