{"id":17954,"date":"2011-10-10T08:18:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T15:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=17954"},"modified":"2011-10-12T08:28:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T15:28:49","slug":"tell-me-what-you-dont-like-about-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=17954","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me What You Don’t Like About Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“Tell me what you don’t like about yourself.”<\/h3>\n

I watched Nip\/Tuck from the beginning of the show. The first season was really good and then it just got weird. It turned from a trashy guilty pleasure into a weird soap opera with Transvestites and Midgets, Gangsters and murders. But one of the phrases that was in every episode was “Tell me what you don’t like about yourself?” And that episode’s character would tell their story of what brought them into the plastic surgeon’s office.<\/p>\n

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I was never the type of person that even thought about plastic surgery. Even when I was 100 pounds heavier and wishing for a quick fix to lose the weight, stomach stapling, liposuction and a tummy tuck were never things that I even considered. I always thought it was an unnatural thing to do and I knew I could lose the weight by myself without those things. I did. I was successful. I successfully kept it off. The one thing I never<\/strong><\/em> thought about: the loose skin that would remain even after toning my body through vigorous exercise and a healthy diet.<\/p>\n

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\nBuying a bikini and longing to be able to wear it made me think about whether or not I am happy with my body. I realized that I WAS happy- I was really happy with my muscles in my upper body from weight lifting and swimming. I was happy with my narrow waist from swimming. I was happy with my toned, muscular legs from cycling and running. I was so happy and satisfied with my body that I even wrote a post about how I Am Okay With My Body<\/a>. And I am–95% of the time. That other 5% is my stomach that will most likely require surgery to fix someday. It’s disappointing that all the ab work and crunches I do haven’t fixed that area.<\/p>\n

The first question I always<\/em> get from people when they found out I lost over 100 pounds is “How did you lose the weight?” The second most popular question is “Do you have a lot of loose skin?”<\/p>\n

The answer: not really. I have a little bit of loose skin in a certain area.<\/p>\n

I think losing weight the slow way — through healthy eating and exercise not fad diets — kept me from getting that issue. I think starting to lose weight in my mid-20’s made a difference, too. The biggest factor though is probably the fact that my weight loss was slow. Sometimes painfully slow (especially those damn plateaus) but I kept at it. Losing 1 pound a week was okay by me as long as I was still losing. It took me almost two years to lose 110 pounds.<\/p>\n

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\nThat does not mean that I don’t have the usual battle scars of someone who lost half their weight.<\/p>\n