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To My Support System

Let me please take this journey with guidance, not with constant badgering.

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To My Support System
Supplement Centre Blog

2017, here I come! One thing I won't be taking with me is the gnawing action of people telling me about my weight. Please realize that this is my battle, and mine alone. Constantly all I hear is "Oh, do this, and don't do that" all because I have gained weight.

What the people in my life do not realize is that aid in my being mentally exhausting when they constantly tell me what is best for me. I will not fail to admit that more often then not I do things I know I'm not supposed to. This does not mean that I expect everyone to constantly point them out and remind how bad the action is.

What does it really do for me? It hurts, because I'm not a child, I'm an adult. Let me eat what I want, lose the weight the way I want, and live happily the way that I choose.

My weight has been the biggest thing that I have had to battle with in 2016. It has done things that I never knew it it could do. It has changed my wardrobe, killed my self-esteem and destroyed my emotional and mental state.

These are the reasons that I will stick to a diet and getting myself healthier. I miss getting dressed, the method in which I'd pick out my clothes and grab my phone to take a million pictures after. I miss when I used to think I was the hottest thing walking, though some may beg to differ. Lastly, I miss not constantly thinking that every bad thing that has happened to me is because of my weight.

Let me take this journey with guidance, not with constant badgering. That is what will help me when it comes to being a support system.

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