Hi, I'm Hannah and I'm here to tell about how I gained and then lost extreme amounts of weight in past years.
So, I was always a lazy and gluttonous person, and I didn't think that it'll catch up with me during my teen years, and indeed it didn't. But later, when I was no longer a teenager, it started to show its effects, first slowly, then shockingly fast.
So, in second half of 2017, just before my terrible lifestyle began to show its effects, I was around 150 lbs (68 kg) and 5'5 ft (165 cm). I wasn't fat or overweight, yet I wasn't thin either, weighing around the heavier levels of my healthy weight. At first, my weight started to increase slowly, but with my sedentary life and increase of fast/fatty foods in my diet (both in size&amount), its speed increased over time. On Christmas 2019, just a short time before pandemic&lockdowns, I was at 183 lbs (83 kg), already fat, living a sedentary life with a diet based on fast food and etc. And just like most of the people on the planet, lockdowns made me gain weight and and worsening my habits as well. I can clearly say that I lost my control during&after the lockdowns. From Christmas 2019 to Christmas 2020, my weight increased from 183 lbs (83 kg) to 212 lbs (96 kg). At first it indeed concerned me a bit, but then I didn't care it at all, thinking I can lose some weight later and slipped back to my old habits. And after some long months later, from December 2020 to August 2022, I found myself ballooning from 212 lbs (96 kg) to 256 lbs (116 kg). My old photos were like old dreams. Embarassed, it was impossible to recognize myself anymore. Finally realised the effects of my habits: from 150 lbs (68 kg) to 256 lbs (116 kg) with some help of a pandemic. That was the moment I understood I have to do something, otherwise it won't end good. I knew that chief problem was my habits, so I decided to change them first, and then started to exercise at the same time. My first target was losing enough weight to not feel much embarassed on the beach.
At first, doing exercises were quite difficult and painful with my options being limited, and remained the same until I lost significant amounts of weight. Same goes for replacing my eating habits as well. The first few months were the most difficult and most painful period, as I tried to reshape my habits, exercise with such a heavy body and regularly adding new exercises to my plan. From September 2022 to May 2023, I managed to reduce my weight to 225 lbs (102 kg), and first time I felt fine myself on the beach, especially when I remember I was still 240 lbs (109 kg) at my last visit to the beach back in the 2022. By the end of the first year of my weight loss journey, September 2023, I reached 194 lbs (88 kg) (It was also around the time when I met with Torn) . Then I continued my weight loss, reaching 165 lbs (75 kg) in some more time. Today, with my weight loss journey finished since I succesfully replaced my habits with healthier ones and losing the excess weights I had for years, I weigh 132 lbs (60 kg). I shouldn't have let myself go at the first place, but since it happened, I had no other chance but fighting for losing weight. Today I feel quite happy about myself and my new habits, I love the variety of clothing preferences I can choose, and of course I love the body I got through the consistency of my dedication to plan I made.
So, that's how I went from an average sized girl to an obese one, and then how I got thin. If you have any similar journeys or any questions, feel free to write them down in the replies section.