WHAT TO EXPECT: Will Weight Loss Make My Twenties Better?

4 Weeks Post Graduation

A lot of people have opinions on their twenties. Lots of them . On Tumblr via text posts, video, bullet lists, and #NoFilter snapshots. I know exactly what you think of your twenties, my twenties, my mother's twenties thirty years ago,and  being twenty in the 1920s. And trust as I hit the big 2-0, I've gobbled it all up. 

My teens were a disaster. I mean between the chunky black platforms that made my legs stockier (and in no way channeled the fierce Buffy the Vampire Slayer hotness I was going for), oversized clothes, low self esteem, crushes on boys who were either gay or douchebags....my teenage years struggle was real. 

But the twenties represent a new decade right?

A new space to get right all the things I got wrong before. So I bookmarked the "How To Be Twenty" posts and set down the path to being better than I was in the last decade of my life. Weird teenage Amanda would be proud, and all the people I wanted to be in high school would see my life on Facebook and know that I was the awesome, intelligent Michelle Obama-esque woman that got away.

a.k.a The Ultimate Revenge.

Weirdly, the one common denominator in all of these posts was a call to lose weight. Bloggers, who sounded weirdly like my mother, implored me to shed the pounds before it was too late. 

Let me tell you, I've been a solid thirty pounds over my recommended weight since Britney and Justin broke up. In my teens, it killed me. I felt separated from my skinnier peers and everything I felt their skinniness gave them: boyfriends, perpetually cute clothes, everything in the world. But, here in my twenties I've mucked through the evil clouds of self-doubt to actually enjoy my profoundly rotund hips and behind. I want to enjoy my twenties in way that was impossible for me to enjoy my teenage years. I don't want to be weighed down by another deadline. Weight loss can potentially improve my twenties but, seeking happiness in my self and the world around me will.

Hey, if I lose a couple inches around the waist during that search and capture Michael Fassbender and a phD in the process...I'll be totally find with that.