Rin's Ramblings

Continued from: this post  Again, CW: dieting, weight loss, etc. I only started taking full-body coord shots this year after I started to see a drop in weight. I would take them on my phone, hate them and delete them and just post a selfie to say I did the thing. Basically, I’d gotten up to 224lbs and about a 122cm bust. :/  (Since being in the fashion, I’d managed to get to 145lbs and a 96cm bust and was aiming to lose another 15ish pounds more, as seen here.) I’m surprised that I can see an actual difference between Tekko (the last 3 mirror shots in this post) and Colossalcon.  I’ve lost another 7ish lbs since Colossalcon, and it’s still June. The last picture was at a grown-up easter egg hunt meet. Hence the boots and basic offbrand otks cause it was muddy. You can also slowly see my confidence and posture in photos rising a bit.   Man, I was so happy to be able to wear Misty Sky! Even though it doesn’t look quite right and it doesn’t fit to my liking, just being able to get it on with ease made me so happy. <3 I’m really excited to be able to wear my dream dresses: Honey Cake, Chess Chocolate, Milky Planet, Day Dream Carnival and Dream Sky very soon! ;A;

So proof that I still actually wear the fashion.  I’ll post some actual coord shots in another post. CW / TW: Weight loss, talk of dieting, talks of depression. Here’s a physical and mental health/wellbeing post and how it ties into J-fash Basically: - Worked a job where I could rarely make it to meets or cons. Could rarely meet up with friends and was done on my days off or when I got home. - Stress from job caused a crapton of weight gain. It was gradual, but my coord shots here stopped in 2015, although I’ve been wearing it since. - Lost some weight when my work situation got a little better, but stressful things happened there again and then gained even more back. :/ - Depressed, anxious, my social circle was my husband and co-workers, and those precious people I could see at conventions or meets when I could go to them. - At one point I had about 4 dresses I could even stuff myself into, despite retail therapying myself to a 50 main piece wardrobe. Hence, selfies. - Found out I have ADHD, which it’s common to binge eat as a mode of comfort and dopamine seeking (which explains it, not getting much dopamine being stuck in a dusty building for 10+ hours a day 5+ days a week.) Also explains the stress (sensory overwhelm). I’ve since left that job, so I’m on my way back down again. ADHD treatment and medication has really helped too, curbing the munchies or even the desire to eat at all since I’m getting the proper amount of dopamine and getting it from better, healthier dietary sources. Not stressed because noises and distractions don’t put me into flight or fight mode. So since January when the treatment began, I saw a slow, gradual drop in weight. Then I decided to go to Tekko a month before and started back on Keto and thus far I’ve dropped 25lbs and roughly 10cm off my overall roundness. I can now wear more items in my wardrobe. Hopefully, by this time next year, I’ll be at my 2014 weight and then some! (FYI: This is for myself, and I think so many people look adorable as being plus sized in the fashion and fully support all of you in what you do. I just don’t like myself this way and want to work on my own health, mental and physical. So please keep being you!)