Lose Weight 11

victory

jojilufc

Hi all :hello:

I lost 2lbs this week, which is last week as well as I didn't go to class. Am quite happy with it as I am getting close to my target and felt that things had slowed down.

Consultant :T thank you for your advice. I have changed things around a bit, and something must be right. Just 6lb to target now, and am feeling more confident now.

Can any one tell me the password for this week. We had a stand in consultant and she didn't put it up... I need to know how many syns for Asda Spicy tomato & pepperoni pasta bake if made up as directed... Probably loads but don't have much time to make OH's tea so that's what it's going to be:rotfl: Cant find it in my asda directory either

Have a good weekend everyone, hopefully we're gonna get some sun...:D

Jo

victory

Seen as we are swappin stories here is mine.....:D

On NYE 2006 my H turned to me and asked 'are we starting the diet tomorrow after all this xmas excess?'

No, I replied huffily eating another high calorie xmas yummy food!

On NYD 2007 H refused all high calorie foods and insisted he only was going to eat healthily, take up walking and walk to work which is 6.5 miles away!!

That is alright for him, I thought angrily, he has to loose maybe 5 lb or at the very most 7 lb after the xmas indulgences, H can walk that far but I can't being diabetic and suffering bad bouts of arthritis, so I declared myself unfit, unhealthy and a lover of extra large portion sizes!

After a few days of this I secretly weighed myself in the bathroom and was shocked to see I had moved up another stone number and had passed it by 2 lb:eek: I know could not justify being this heavy, the shortness of breath, the difficulty getting around, having to say No to the boys when they asked to play, no to the family trips out, no to posh do's my H had to go to due to his work because I could not find anything that looked nice....

I was living a restricted, self imposed No life with a risk of heart attack with all the abdominal fat around the stomach, my BMI was far too high, my clothes were ugly and more of a necessity, the kids were noticing I stayed in more and more....

The diabetic docs had told me about the BMI and the excess kilos but I always shrugged, dismissed and ate some more but not this time....

When I was 12 I lived in Spain and my parents sent me back to the U.K all summer to see my old grandparents, they did not know what to do with me really so they fed me, anything and everything, when I met my mother at the airport she let out a shriek of how I had put the weight on, she immediately put me on a diet from that day until xmas eve.... I was 12 and that was the start of the diets...

In the years I have tried eat only melon diet, the high fibre, low fibre, GI, the only acidic foods, the silly ones, the good ones, WW ones all the diets I have tried and they have all worked but then the complacency comes back in ,the portion sizes start to get larger, the eye goes over to the lovely foods and the weight climbs back on....

So, this healthy eating time everything left the cupboards, fridge, freezer and was replaced with a mountain of healthy food any nutritionalist would be proud of if she opened my fridge...

I lost nothing the first week.

I cried, blamed it on the diabetes, the arthritis, not being able to get around, that I was doomed to be large and should be left to get larger....then my mum told me if I carried the weight I would have a heart attack and my kids would be left without a mum.

The second week I lost 2 lb and each week after that 4 lb or 3 lb and the weight stayed off consistent and the exercise increased. 4 months later I have never cheated, always lost and the kids love their new doing things mum, the cycling mum!!

My BMI is fine now, all the weight still is on the stomach making it harder to come down in dress sizes but it is happening, increasing chances of heart attack but it is coming off...

I have learnt to chew food, eat slowly, have a smaller plate, use a small spoon, eat the food piping hot so you have to wait and eat slow, put the knife and fork down in between, that it takes 20 mins for the brain to register fullness, not to panic, that I am not going to starve, to drink loads of water, give up coffee, to not let the food control me and for me to look at food as the friend not the weight enemy it used to be....

I have learnt that hiding behind being diabetic and large is my own personal excuse and I can no longer hide behind it.

I have learnt I am a big eater, my own worst enemy, that through food I can make myself exceptionally unhappy, flooringly low self confidence and unhealthy and that is down to me.

I have learnt I do not need as much food as I think I do, that with me I don't mind the healthy eating what I mind is being hungry.

My final journey is I must learn to take control of the food, that I must lean to trust myself, that I have the ability to say no, the food should be a friend, to feel comfortable around food and not to have to join in. I havelearnt that just because all my family and friends have no weight problems at all that does not mean I am being punished or am abnormal, just that I have to be careful and think about it before I put it into my mouth.

I am much much older than the first diet my mother put me on but now the battle has to stop.

I know being thin will not automatically make me a super self confident person, whistling down the street but i know I can regain control of my eating habits and turn this into a victory!!

Lois_Lane

Hi Victory - thank you for sharing your story, it's amazing to think that you've managed so much in such a short space of time - 4 months! With all the exercise you're doing, you'll have the flat stomach and be in a smaller size in no time. :T

LL

p.s. we're both Virgo's - my birthday is in September too, the 8th

victory

All my family are virgos (mum, son, dad, me, BIL, loads of them) just one son is in May, I reckon virgos have the nicest temperament, so practical, calm and perfectionist:j :j

Lois_Lane

victory wrote: »

All my family are virgos (mum, son, dad, me, BIL, loads of them) just one son is in May, I reckon virgos have the nicest temperament, so practical, calm and perfectionist:j :j

Something to do with September being nine months after Christmas!

LL

*zippy*

Is it ok if I join in please?

I started on Monday and have loads to lose (size 22 :eek: ). I'm also on the dfw thread, but hope nobody minds if I join in here too as I have been lurking since we were merged the other day and you all seem so nice

Suggs

Victory - Thank you for posting your story, Its really good to read how other people are fighting the good fight. Your doing it for all the right reasons and I admire your kind and thoughtful words on this thread.

Keep going, keep losing, keep smiling

victory

*zippy* wrote: »

Is it ok if I join in please?

I started on Monday and have loads to lose (size 22 :eek: ). I'm also on the dfw thread, but hope nobody minds if I join in here too as I have been lurking since we were merged the other day and you all seem so nice

Of course not, we are all more than nice we are super nice:D

Come in , fight the good fight as suggs so rightly says, we are all dealing with as best we can and will be here for you, you can do it, success is yours for the taking, what plan are you on?

Any questions etc, feel free to ask........

D3BB13

Disappointing week for me. 2nd week on SW and I styed the same. Any advice gratefully received!