Making this change on my own was a real new adventure. My family does not eat healthy. So, for me to make changes without anyone truly noticing was going to be difficult. I slowly cut out things. Instead of drinking 3 cokes a day, i reduced it to one a day and eventually down to one a week until I was not drinking soda anymore. I did the same with processed foods and the same with sweets as well. I drank tons of water and ate as well as I could.
I was at first curious to see if the changes were happening. I located my mom's old tape measure and took starting measurements about a week in. They were anything but pretty. i tried weighing myself on my grandmother's scale but the dreaded "EE" kept showing up for two months. I kept at it and worked hard at eating better. In early June 2010, I stepped on the scale and didn't see the "EE"! Yeah I was overjoyed. I was down exactly 16 pounds since i started. Of course seeing this progress made me want to keep going. Well, that night, we had a wedding to go to and I was excited that the dress I bought still fit. The bad thing, I slipped and fell that night. I was unable to get up on my own. It was embarrassing and my father instantly blamed my weight. He didn't know how hard I was trying to better myself and how much his words truly hurt me. He just spoke what he thought and that was that.
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