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Hi all,
As you might have seen, I'm Emily and am 30 years young. I have battled my weight for years. I was a smallish kid until I turned 11. I was told for years that sit-ups will help me thin out. This was not so, but gave me great stomach muscles. When I was 12, I started skipping meals and found that this helped me lose weight. I began to do so because I got tired of kids picking on me at lunch and throwing things at me while I ate. One day I didn't and just did my homework instead. They stopped because they had no cannon fodder.
This is not a healthy way of losing weight, but for that time, it worked. I only had one incident where I was so dizzy I fell off a low-rise bleacher, but caught myself barely. I moved from Massachusetts when I was 13 to a very small town in northeastern Vermont. I found comfort in chocolate. For the next few years I went back and forth to not eating a lot for various reasons to eating bad foods. When I was 16 I was the smallest I had been for a few years. I wore a size 10-12 and weighed 130lbs. I smoked, exercised every day, but still had bad eating habits. Once I began to eat more regularly, the weight came back and brought friends. The scale kept going upwards.
The hardest part was not being able to afford much food week to week. The foods I got were as I called "rations". Food that was filling, not terribly bad, but still not healthy and living on that sort of diet you do retain the weight. Now after so many years, I want to change and have found a community of people who are doing the same. I quit smoking November 22nd, 2004 after 10 years. I was told I had beginning signs of emphysema and recently when I had a cigarette I would vomit. After so many years smoke free, I can breathe better and the signs of emphysema have disappeared. I am able to get more foods and eat on a more regular basis. The biggest concern is diabetes. Both my mother's side and father's side have it and I want to postpone the inevitable inevitably if possible. I also want to have kids one day and know that my obesity will cause serious side affects to my health.
No more! I want to be thin and healthy! I want to wear a size 10-14 comfortably and not have my clothes dig into my skin. I want to have a healthy relationship with birthday cake and use the word "NO" to chocolate. I reject TV pushing chemically enhanced foods. I want to live a full life and feel good everyday. This is all possible. Watch me every step of the way.
Best wishes and blessings to everyone who wants to be healthier,
Emily =)