Health, fitness and eating right.

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Am I the only one who struggles with being consistent with being healthy and exercising? I don't know how many times I've tried to lose weight and go to the gym or do weights and eventually fall off track.
I have an "emotional eating" issue. If something bad happens or if something is stressful I tend to eat, and not healthily. I tend to eat comfort food, such as, breads and sugar. It's something that I apparently learned from other people, I don't know. For most of my childhood and teenage years I was told I was fat, needed to loose weight, etc. Or told very indirect comments: Everyone could stand to loose 10 pounds. But normally I wouldn't let those comments get to me...

(Trigger warning for anyone with eating disorder)

My junior year of high school I was told by people (I won't disclose any names) that I was fat or that my eating habits could lead me to being obese. Day after day I was told this. I played softball in high school and we practiced 3 hours a day Monday-Friday. Like normal, I didn't think anything of it. Then I started dating a guy who was skinnier than me. No, I didn't get any disorder from this person. I do not by any means blame this person for anything. I do have someone to blame, myself. My "disorder" started roughly a good month before we started dating. But in March of my Junior year I couldn't take the criticism anymore. Early that year I had two full fledged break downs (the kind where it was like an out of body experience? The first time I laid on my bedroom floor for 3 years and couldn't move and the second one I packed up all my stuff and destroyed my own things) But why that happened is something completely for another time...
But I started limiting how much I was eating. I started reading books that triggered me. It was so self destructive. I was doing softball 3 hours a day and eating only 500 calories. You need 1200 at a minimum for my height (5'8'') to function, if you're doing sports actively you need 2000. So 500 is horrible and I could have done some extensive damaged to my body. I completely lost myself at that point.

It's been 4 years to this month that I stopped hurting myself and decided to try and eat balanced and exercise and I have lost more weight and felt more confident than I ever had my Junior year. Currently I am 5'8'' and 164 pounds, my goal is 130. I am happy with what I am doing now and wish I could helps those who are where I was my Junior year. I'm going to tell you this:
Limiting your intake or forcing yourself to rid your body of nutrients is not the way to go.
Eat healthy and go out for a walk or bike ride and you'll feel amazing and confident!
Everyone is beautiful no matter what size. As long as you are taking care of you! Don't loose weight because someone said something or because this person weighs this much or because the media tells you what's "acceptable". Do it for you.
I plan on making post about my rises and falls with my health journey and I would love to know what you guys do i.e meals, fitness tips, fun idea's, etc!