Hello,
I’m a 20 year old college student who’s been struggling with weight and body image pretty much my entire life.
I started as a pretty hefty kid, getting up to 230lbs by sophomore year of high school. When I was 16/17 I went on a partially accidental weight loss journey that I have trouble understanding. I contracted mono and started eating way less, and about 5 months later I was down to 160 lbs. I gained about 15 pounds Senior year but I didn’t look bad, but every time I stepped on the scale since it’s gone up. I’m 5’8 and I’ve been scared to weigh myself for awhile but I’m currently estimating that I’m back at 220, if not more.
The thing that frustrates me is that my weight loss or gain has been almost totally unintentional. When I look back at pictures of myself even a year ago I look way skinnier yet I don’t ever remember eating more or less at any point. I don’t even know how I lost that much weight in the first place, I know it’s because I had a calorie deficit but it was almost completely unintentional and I was able to maintain a healthy weight even during COVID. But now since going to college I’ve been gaining it all back despite arguably being more active and having less access to snacks and such. My appetite has been something that I’ve never been able to control for better or for worse.
It’s been really discouraging because even when I was 50 pounds lighter I still thought I was fat. Now that I am actually obese again I don’t know what to do. I can’t help feeling like my weight loss was a fluke and I’m just going to keep being overweight.
What should I do? What can I do to keep motivating myself?
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