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title: "I've lost weight!"
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date: 2022-07-10
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Ever since I started middle school, I've been a bit of a chubby kid. I was
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never into sports & honestly I just like food. The fact that my main hobby,
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computer stuff, requires me to sit down all the time doesn't help my case
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either.
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My health was never really a big concern for me, as I generally felt pretty
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good physically. A few months ago however, I finally found the courage to go
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donate blood (I absolutely despise needles)! Whenever you want to donate blood
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(at least, here in Belgium) they check your blood pressure to make sure you're
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allowed to give blood, and that's when I found out that my blood pressure was
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apparently way too high. This was a big eye-opener for me, as it was the first
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time I was being confronted with a consequence of my weight and just general
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lack of self-care.
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Shortly after, I made an appointment with a doctor, who then referred me to a
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cardiologist, who then once again told me that my blood pressure is indeed way
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too high. Due to my young age however, they were hesitant to prescribe me
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medication and instead encouraged me to start exercising more to see if this
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helped the problem.
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Suffice to say, my health has notably improved ever since I changed my
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lifestyle! I've started running regularly (and have been enjoying it
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surprisingely) and lowered my portion size when eating. For the first couple of
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weeks, I was constantly hungry, but afterwards my stomach adjusted. Nowadays,
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I'm already full after a portion half the size of before!
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This post has been in the back of my mind for a while, but I wanted to wait
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until I hit a specific milestone. When I started losing weight, I weighed
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around 111kg, but a few days ago I weighed less than a hundred kilos for the
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first time in years! My weight definitely ballooned when I started university,
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so it felt really good to see that 99.9 on the scale. My blood pressure has
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also notably improved, thanks to the weight loss and exercise.
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Of course I'm not going to stop now, but this was a specific goal that I had in
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mind to motivate myself to keep going. My friends and family have been
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commenting on my weight loss, and it's really nice to hear people say that I
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lost weight for a change. I am grateful that this was discovered so soon. Being
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only twenty-one, I'm still more than capable of becoming healthier. I'd rather
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exercise now than deal with the possible implications from high blood pressure
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years down the road.
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As usual, I have no idea how to end these posts; I just wanted to share my
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accomplishment, as I'm quite proud of it :) Anyways, if you've gotten this far,
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thank for you reading and have a very nice day <3
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