First question: am I supposed to write this in the first person or the third person. I'm thinking third, but then that makes me feel like I'm being introduced on a 1980's dating game show. "Becca has a PHD from Harvard in Astro Physics and three Golden Globe Awards. Her favorite food is italian, her best friend is her cat, Munchkin, and she loves to spend all her free time surfing!"
For the record, they are all complete lies - I only have 2 Golden Globes.
Since I'm not a beauty queen or contestant on 'Perfect Match', let's go with first person.
I'm a 32-year-old Aussie woman, currently living in a regional town (although I definitely prefer the city. I'm not married and I don't have kids (thank goodness), although I am Auntie to seven awesome nieces and nephews whom I love to bits. I'm pretty normal, although I probably tilt to the quirky side of things - I love to have a good laugh and I love bright colours. I don't like cooking because I hate cleaning up the mess, but I LOVE food, so I'll cook out of necessity. I love to travel, but don't do it nearly enough, something I hope to change in the future.
I'm a qualified primary school teacher, but left the profession in 2012 after having a mental/emotional breakdown. I've flitted around since then, studying and working, but I'm still trying to find my purpose and the right career path. At the moment I'm managing a small cinema, which suits me just fine but I'm not sure yet where the future will lead me - hopefully something where i continue to work with people because I enjoy that. My coolest job was last year when I spent a year working at Walt Disney World in Florida. It was just a retail job but I absolutely loved it and would love to go back and work for Disney again some day.
My weight has been something I've struggled with my whole life, and I've tried just about every diet, scheme, pill or program out there. I've yo-yo'd a bit, but I've been on the wrong side of 'obese' for about 20 years now. Because of this I know a lot about weight loss, and I know the only safe and healthy way to lose weight and keep it off is through a healthy, balanced diet and regular exercise. This time around, I am determined to put all of this accumulated knowledge to good use and get healthy for good!
I am also living with anxiety and depression, something I was diagnosed with in 2012. It's a very real part of my life and definitely contributes to my weight issues, so I think it's an important part of this journey and my overall health. I do not see myself as some sort of victim and I do not believe in using my mental illness as a crutch - it is just another thing to face each day.
So that's me - nothing terribly exciting I'm afraid, but perhaps I'll take up extreme sports soon and I can change this after all!
Later, losers!
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