Healthier lifestyle choices: How i lost close to half my body weight

When i was growing up i was proberly always an average sized child, never really thin but never really large either, just average. Then puberty hit and it was like BAM instant weight gain..... okay proberly not that instant, but my weight definatly increased throughout my high school years, slowly creeping up on me, as weight so sneakily does to those of us who don't make good food choices, until I was in my first year of uni and ultimately very unhappy with myself.

I didn't make the decision to eat well and make good lifestyle changes until maybe my second year of university, although i understood the concept, i never fully understood why i couldn't eat what ever i wanted and just work out like all the skinny girls i knew, but for me that was never going to work and it took my until the ripe age of 19 to figure that out.

So in 2012 I (and my boyfriend) made the conscious decision to eat better and exercise regularly, which sounds easy but isn't so easy in practise, it is very difficult to give up foods you've grown up eating regularly and not knowing any better, but slowly but surely by swapping foods out for healthier versions we were able to make the changes we needed to slowly start loosing weight.

It was never easy, but anything worth getting never is. I am nowhere near where i want to be, but i am a lot closer to where i should be and it makes me happy.

If anyone would like some food substitution ideas for weight loss please leave me a message, and i hope that this helps everyone to see that if I, a completely sedentary obese teenager who couldn't run for 1 minute, can do it (i can now run 40mins without a second thought) then SO CAN ANYONE!

Before and during weightloss: fitting into jeans that have never fit before. Proud fit moment

Have a little faith in yourself, you are capable of the worlds treasures.
xxx