Opinion
Fighting the fat
I lost some of the weight once in my freshman year. I started going to Weight Watchers meetings, pushing my workouts harder and eating less. I lost 12 pounds at the height of this process.
However, my thirst for theater and acting soon left me unavailable to attend meetings with her anymore. Without my partner in crime, I was soon beaten and eating like crazy again.
This year I started a wellness blog with my new partner: my girlfriend. Together we both set out yo drop some weight so we’d be looking good for prom and through the summer.
From the start of the year, we both started keeping a blog and advertising to our friends on our plan to get healthy.
Just like that, on determination alone, we started eating less and more healthily and working out with the exercise equipment in our basement. We pushed one another, we motivated one another and by three weeks in we’d lost 35 pounds between us.
Losing weight can be a stressful process, and should be handled as such. It’s hard to know when to stop eating when everyone’s having seconds. Remember to drink eight glasses of water a day and work out when you’re just feeling lazy. Determination is a big part of getting into shape.
Neither of us are where we want to be yet and we both know that weight fluctuates much more easily at the beginning of a process than later on, but we’re both still determined. We’ve lost a lot already and between the two of us we plan to be that one good looking couple at prom.