{"id":37,"date":"2010-02-24T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredtenpounds.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/24\/weight-loss-and-happiness"},"modified":"2010-02-24T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T01:54:00","slug":"weight-loss-and-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Weight Loss and Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>What Makes YOU Happy?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When I was 250+ pounds, I was very depressed. I thought “if only I weighed 150…I’d be happy like everyone else.” It took a lot of hard work but I reached 150. 143 was the lowest my weight got, and I didn’t stay there very long.<\/p>\n

I’ve previously mentioned that I put on about 15 pounds this year. In a few weeks I’m going to go back to weighing myself once a month again. While I was losing weight, I weighed myself twice a week. It was a good thing to keep me in check and when I lost<\/span> weight it made me happy! Seeing a 2, 3, 8 pounds loss made me ELATED! On the flip-side, seeing no loss –or worse–a gain<\/span>, I’d be depressed and beat myself up for what I ate. I didn’t take into account that I was a woman and certain times of the month we can gain around 5 pounds due to PMS, bloat and water retention.<\/p>\n

The reason behind weighing myself only once a month is because I don’t want to get obsessed with the scale. I went through a phase where was I was. It’s an easy trap to fall into but it’s not healthy.<\/p>\n

The hard part is learning to love your body no matter what weight you are at. Find joy in losing 5 pounds, being able to walk a flight of stairs without panting, running a mile. I struggle with this every single day. I have good days and bad days. I’m not worried about being “heavy”. I’m athletic and will never be “skinny.”<\/p>\n

If you’re having a bad day about how you feel about your body, take a few minutes to look up pictures of professional athletes. They are NOT skinny (well, maybe the marathon runners). My favorites are Michael Phelps and Serena Williams. Serena Williams is a massive<\/span> woman. Have you ever seen her THIGHS? Dang! But you know what, she’s healthy!<\/p>\n

It’s a hard thing to accept sometimes. Athletes aren’t skinny. You need food as fuel. Simple, right? Then why am I so hungry all the time?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What Makes YOU Happy? When I was 250+ pounds, I was very depressed. I thought “if only I weighed 150…I’d be happy like everyone else.” It took a lot of hard work but I reached 150. 143 was the lowest my weight got, and I didn’t stay there very long. I’ve previously mentioned that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,41,44,189,236,297,298],"tags":[645,8684,8757,8758],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}