There are many instances in everyone's life where they will perceive a situation to be one way and it turns out that their perception was far from reality. I have come across this scenario in my home life, social life and at work. Each time I am involved in a situation like this I add it as a notch to my learning and life experiences. In the particular instance I am going to describe, I've been taught a valuable life lesson dealing with weight loss. .
As a youngster I was always skinny. I was known as skinny mini, string bean, twiggy, among many other names kids came up with in those days. Back then, I didn't like it one bit - if only I had known! As I got older I filled out but never, ever had a problem with weight. I was able to eat anything I wanted without having to worry about weight gain. I eventually married. Once married I still had no weight problems. I was quite pleased with the way I looked and thought I would look that way forever.
In due course, my husband and I had two children. With our first child I gained 25 pounds but it immediately came off after birth. This was not the case with my second child. With the second child I gained nearly sixty pounds, and to my astonishment I lost only thirty of it after birth. This began a 12 years long battle with weight.
I did everything I could to loss weight. At first I went with an exercise battle plan. I worked out so much at times, that I caused myself unnecessary pain to many different body parts. I would jog three miles a day in the mornings, three days a week. I would bicycle and for 2 or more hours in the evenings, as well as attend aerobics classes. All this work resulted only in minimal weight loss.
The next weight-battling phase for me was dieting and diet pills. I would not eat for a week and then I would end up binging the next week. I went on grapefruit diets, protein/low carbohydrate diets, and fasting diets.