August 2011
28 posts
Fussy.
It’s strange to think about my biggest struggle with living a healthy lifestyle, because I suppose, I’ve never ever had a healthy lifestyle. I suppose when I was a baby or a toddler then maybe I was healthy but since I’ve been eating solid food I’ve had serious issues with food that I’m only just coming to terms with. In short, I can’t eat lots of different...
Entry for happierandhealthier competition
I’ve spent the last few days contemplating whether to enter myself for this or not but today I realised that intuitive eating might be the end of my struggle and that I should give this a shot. I’m Alia, a recovering bulimic who has turned 19 years old two months ago. I had promised myself I would turn 19 completely recovered. Instead I spent the day sleeping and eating and purging. I failed...
the ghost of child obesity
When I was 8, I was fat. Well, that’s putting it lightly; I was obese.
Now, I didn’t see anything wrong with myself at that time. To be honest, I thought I looked fine. But then there was the teasing, the not fitting in. I can’t remember much of this time period as I’m now 20, but I do remember the feeling of being left out and different.
My parents put me on a diet and I...
My Biggest Struggle With Living A Healthy...
I’ve been a binge eater for as long as I can remember. If I was bored I ate. If I was upset, happy, tired, hungry, full, lonely, etc. I ate, until I was so full I felt like I was about to burst. It was like I could never get enough food to fill me up.
When I was 16 I started purging. This is something I wish I could take back every single day. Because that is my biggest struggle, to fight...
My Story. (:
my struggle with weight loss has been a huge roller coaster. I remember crying my freshman year of high school because my bestfriend always got all the hot guys, while i was just the fat one. Or when i got the news that if i don’t lose weight, i will have diabetes in 5 years. that was the scariest thing in the world. My whole family is thin, and i am just the fat one. It was a hard thing to...
The Power of Peanut Butter
When I tried to think of my biggest struggle, the first thing that came to my mind was peanut butter. Maybe it was because that’s what I was craving at the time, but then the more I thought about it, I found that my weight loss struggle can truly be summed up by peanut butter.
There are days when I could eat an entire jar of it and still feel “hungry” afterwards. Sometimes I...
my EDNOS, and why and how i'm never going back
i have never been what you would call ‘big’ or even ‘curvy’. i was always a small kid growing up. due to being teased in gym class i never got into any sports; i was, however, a dancer from ages three to eleven. that ended when the dance teachers were cruel to me about my ADHD and told me i should just level down to be with the rest of my peers. once i quit dance, i ceased...
Battling My Brain
My worst enemy is my own thoughts. For years I was overweight, even obese, and what kept me there was the life-engulfing, black hole of depression. Every day when I woke up, I’d think about dying. The thought crossed my mind very literally every single waking hour for five years. Not a single day passed. I even tried it once - I almost succeeded. But, my thoughts wouldn’t even give me...
Contest
For a while, I’ve been struggling with my weight. Mind you, I’m only 5’5 and started at between 120-125 pounds, but I had the “skinny fat” as people called it. I never really cared about my eating habits until around a year and a half ago. The struggle was trying to change my lifestyle, and how quickly I wanted to adapt to eating clean and exercising every day. I sat...
Greek epic length submission (Seriously though,...
Eating disorders run in my family. My aunt has struggled since she was a teenager, and my younger sister since she was in elementary school. As a result, a healthy, normal relationship with food has never been a part of my life. We have always had scheduled eating times and specifically portioned amounts, only kept certain foods in the house and had to build our lives around my family...
My life is about to change drastically, so why not...
For my entire life I’ve always had a bit of flab on my stomach, and for a while, I was okay with it. Once I got into middle school, I started noticing that a lot of the other girls had perfect skinny bodies, and it made me feel left out, but I never did much to change it. I had a few friends that were in the same boat as me, we all felt uncomfortable in our bodies and we were constantly...
A constant journey
Hello, my name is Brittany McCall and first of all, I LOVE your blog(brownie points please). Okay so my journey:
Growing up I was always a thin kid, I was active and healthy and happy. I was young so i didn’t care if what I ate was healthy or not, I just ate it and my metabolism burned it off for me. Once I hit puberty everything changed. I gained weight and ate very...
My struggle with a healthy lifestyle
There are a couple of parts to my struggle, but I’d have to say that it started with me getting diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder in 7th grade. I’ve battled illness and issues for years and although I loved to do sports (cross-country and fencing) I never really got completely healthy. Then in college, it was even harder to be healthy because I was on meal plan (thankfully no...
My biggest struggle with living a healthy lifestyle is definitely learning to listen to my body and what it wants. I’ve really had a hard time in the past with binging, purging and then starving myself as punishment. Basically I just got myself in this vicious cycle that lead me to gain back a lot of what I had lost and was incredibly hard to break. I’ve come a long way, but its still...
My Story- Imperfectionatbestt
I don’t have a dramatic story. Actually my story isn’t too different from yours (Molly). I started my tumblr in the beginning of my freshmen year of college. It was a collection of random photos, posts, reblogs, and random strings of my thoughts. As I got deeper and deeper into the world of tumblr I found MatchStickMolly. I think it was the first weight-loss blog I had ever found and...
How I am learning to live a healthier life
My biggest struggle with living a healthy lifestyle is trying to figure out the difference between what diet and exercise information is true and what is false. There is so much misinformation out there! I am even studying Dietetics in college and have learned information that if you go back and look at the study where the information comes from really has no real backing to it. I can’t...
my life as a teenage mutant ninja turtle.
I hope the title of my story got your attention. But alas Im not a ninja turtle. Im sorry for lying. Now heres the real story. When i was younger my mom deprived me of pop, candy, chips and any kind of sweets out there. Then after school i had to go to this baby sitter ( this was like 7 years ago) and she was great ! A lovely lady and all that jazz, except every day she would put out a HUGE...
Dear Matchstick Molly; When I graduated highschool I was probably in the best shape of my life. I was playing competitive badminton five days a week, going for walks twice a day, and going to the gym twice a day. I was a strict vegetarian, and carefully monitored what I put into my body. After 4 months attending university alone and 6 hrs from home, I was depressed and overeating out of sheer...
My Journey to Health!
Last summer, I wanted to get in shape. I was never fat, but I wanted muscle definition and to be a better runner. All that happened, but soon afterwards I noticed my dramatic 10 pound weight-loss. It was a big WOW! factor kind of thing, because the weight-loss wasn’t even intentional. However, after seeing this I started to change up my diet a little. I wanted to lose even MORE weight even...
My biggest struggle isn’t really comparable to all those girls who live every day with anorexia or bulimia. I’ve never starved myself, I’ve never purged - simply because I love food too much, and I find the idea of purging completely disgusting. However, my love of food means I struggle with binging and problems with self-restraint. I have my good days and my bad days, but...
My biggest struggle with a healthy lifestyle.
I’ve always been thin and loved healthy food, but I never really got into it until I started my blog in October 2010, and I started to exercise on a regular basis January 2011. However, getting through all of that was a struggle, because people were so harsh about my size. (And surprisingly, it was the complete opposite of most criticisms about size.)
I was never anorexic, I never had any...
I’ve never been at a large weight, but I’ve never thought about what I put into my mouth until I hit puberty and then, by laws of the world, I started being self-conscious about my body.
Peer pressure is my biggest struggle. When I’d go out to eat with my [thinner] friends, they’d all order whatever they liked, and usually, so would I. I’d wind up feeling terrible...
Struggles
My problem is understanding the balance.
I understand that eating right and working out is a balance. You have to find what works for you and when it works for you. I tend to lose weight, continue and lose some more and then during that point where I’m feeling so good about everything I start to slip I have a little more of this or that or I make excuses as to why I can have this or that....
Fat Friend
Only in the last two years have I finally started paying attention to the number on the scale and what it would mean. My entire family is overweight and while all of my friends have been smaller, I never really thought about it; My weight was never really criticized.
Then about two years ago I began to notice the difference between myself and my friends. I was the fat friend and hadn’t...
My biggest struggle.
“Look at me, that’s a picture of me in high-school. I was 98 pounds.”
I’ve heard this a lot since I was young. My mom, had a terrible eating disorder all through high-school. She starved herself, and when she ate - she induced vomiting. She was so thin, that she could grab her clavicle bones with her fingers and stick her fingers through the little hole. She used to say...
My Biggest Struggle
My biggest struggle with weightloss is getting out of a nasty cycle of self-hatred. I’m currently recovering from an eating disorder, so it feels like everything I do is starve, binge, purge, starve, binge, purge. I used to think I couldn’t eat normally and healthily, but then I found your tumblr! Now, I know how to eat healthy foods when I’m hungry and not feel bad for it!...
My story.
My story goes something like this:
When I was four, I started becoming violently ill for weeks at a time for no apparent reason. I was put in and out of the hospital for treatment, which was pretty much just the doctor giving me pain medicine to wait it out until the sickness went away. The doctors had no idea what was wrong with me and couldn’t figure out any sort of treatment to help be...
"When Depression Was the Sea, You Were the One...
My name is Kate Hephzibah and I am seventeen years old. I am the oldest of seven children. My parents divorced when I was five, and have since remarried. I have only one biological brother, JT, and the rest of my siblings are either half or step.
My life, so far, hasn’t been a fairytale, but hasn’t been a nightmare either. The most traumatizing event in my life was last August, when I was...
