Starting this introduction of myself, my life, my story, and
my altogether too many thoughts, is almost as awkward as the time I went to
class from walking in the rain and somehow my boobs are the only part of my
shirt that was soaking wet. I’ve lost about ninety pounds but none of the
awkwardness, and people find that amusing apparently. So here I am! Hello.
Welcome. Be prepared for health and wellness and some Harry Potter and Disney.
A lot of Harry Potter and Disney. Oh, and The Office.
I say that, because as much as I love talking about weight
loss, eating keto, learning to take care of your body, and so on, there is
still more to me than just this thing that I have done. But I care about other
things too, that I am passionate about bringing to My Awkward Skinny Life. I
always felt like I did not quite fit into the stereotypical skinny girl,
inspiring “oh my god I wish I could do that” category. I mean I am in that
category, and love talking about it. But I am also as awkward as a dodo bird.
Just a dodo bird that really likes reading and watching The Office for the
fifteenth time.
I’m passionate about too many things. I’m passionate about
my weight loss journey. I’m passionate about taking care of the one and only
thing we are ensured: our body. I’m passionate about taking care of your soul
as whole-heartedly as people talk about fitness. I’m passionate about mental
health and raising awareness towards these issues, as well as proving that
living with a healthy lifestyle and mental illnesses is possible, doable, and
incredibly helpful. I’m passionate about Hufflepuff pride.
I say this to make a point. I’m still a person, and I love
being more than this wonderful thing that I have done. As women, our sense of
self is made to revolve around looks. Don’t get healthy to fit into that dress
that you like that looks good on Cara Delevingne and Kendall Jenner. They have
a body type and you have yours, which is just as perfect as theirs.
So get healthy, love yourself. Take care of your mental health,
and if any of that is too hard that day, just get up and do what you can
manage. Read Harry Potter, or the Chronicles of Narnia. Go for a walk, read it
on a bench in a local park, or by a window even. People seem to so look up to
what I have done, and I love that. I love this platform. But what I have
accomplished did not happen in just big grand gestures of change. It’s in the
small things. I got better about washing my face, brushing my teeth. I started
reading just for my own enjoyment again. I set standards for myself, as well as
the people in my life.
And as far as the weight loss things do go, I did a lot of
that in smaller increments as well. I cut out sugar. At least twenty pounds
just from that. Then that’s when I saw my potential for the first time in my
life. I went keto, and I threw myself into it with everything I had. Add
another forty pounds before I even started working out at all. This all started
two years ago. Every day is not some big ol’ thing. It’s in the little things,
and living life in between all them.
