Changes and Journey

Hi everyone,

I am finally back again and I would like to talk about my changes to my blog. I'd like to start with my almost enlightening experience during this time. As you know the world is currently struggling to contain the COVID-19 cases. Most people are stuck inside. I know I have gone through a few 1000 piece puzzles already and I'm only on my third week. If you are in Italy and reading this you are all the strongest. Back to be stuck inside. I realized that I struggled to think of creative blog ideas categorized into a lifestyle theme, which I have been trying to theme the blog around. I figured that I needed to theme my blog on healthy habits because that is what I know best.  As a start to this new niche, I would like to start off with my journey. I briefly talked about it in my first post, but I would like to elaborate on it.

This is me in 7th Grade. I was overweight and at first, didn't realize it. When you are a kid you just want to eat all the food you can. For me, sweets were everything. I did play many sports all the time.

Those don't matter when you are stuffing your body with junk. Middle school hit and I didn't look like my other friends. I couldn't run as fast as them or even run at all. That's when it hit and I realized I was overweight. For those three years, I hid in yoga pants and t-shirts. On a good day I would wear jeans, but rarely would I. In the summer I wore workout shorts that squeezed my thighs.
While all the girls wore lace bralettes and short-shorts I was scared t even show my body. In the picture above you can see I am wearing a bathing suit shirt over my tankini and a pair of swim shorts. That would be all you see me in if I ever went to the beach. I forgot to mention that my boobs were huge. If I was lucky I fit into a D cup. I hid them in sports bras that I thought would compress them done. They don't, especially if they are from Victoria Secrets. My body kept me from being an open person. I was reserved and avoided conversation with anyone I wasn't close with. I was destroyed on the inside and out. My metabolism was destroyed from avoiding food too. Starving is the worst approach I took. I'd eat a small breakfast, no lunch, and a large dinner. I have mentioned before in other posts that starving actually slows your metabolism, making food that you eat go down and stay there longer.

It wasn't until the summer before ninth grade that my whole mindset shifted. My mile time was a good ten minutes. My goal that summer was to prove to the coaches I could work to get it down. I did. My goal was 8 minutes and I ran an 8:15. No matter what I was proud of myself. In my mind I killed it. Along with the mile, I ran 120's, which are running up a football field in 20 seconds and back in 40 seconds. I did them six times although in captains practice I could barely do three. Over that summer I dropped 20 pounds.

                                                 

 I felt more confident. I finally could wear clothes that I restricted myself from before. Summer was my time to work. This past summer I ran a lot more. My mile went from the 8:15 to a 7:29. It felt so good to do that and yet I didn't make it onto varsity. Now my goal this summer is to make sure I can. I worked that summer on my basketball skills. I went from being almost the worst on the team to a varsity player. Basketball is my worst, and I emphasize that, sport. I never was the greatest at it, but once you see something in yourself that changes the game. You don't always have to be that person that everyone sees. I wasn't. I changed everything. I went to a school only three people from my school went to. I proved to people that I'm not the slow overweight girl, and I am proving to everyone every day that I am not the person they think I am.

Back to now. I am inside figuring out what to do. I love writing and I hope one day that I will be a journalist. Now with my new ideas, I hope to expand on the blog. The world has been put on pause for many of us. Take this time to recollect yourself and hit that goal that you always wanted to. Change yourself, so that when you come out of this experience you don't fit the stereotype the internet wants you to. I know that by the time I come out of this I want to have my story perfect for publication on Wattpad, to have at least ten new blog posts, and to be able to run a mile under 7:29 seconds. Tell me what you want to be accomplished.

Also, don't forget to relax. That always comes first. Until next time.

Love,

    Rosie