| Ok, I'm Karen, single mum to Chloe, the light of my life (even though she bugs me at times!!) shes 6 but acts like a teenager! She wants to be a pop star by the way, and is currently modelling herself on Gabriela out of High School Musical (at least she picked someone with a bit of intelligence as well, even though shes not a proper pop star!)
Anyway, during last summer I decided enough was enough, I had to sort my weight out. Had seen an advert for LL and went to an info session, convinced this was the diet for me, but then realised there was no way I could afford £66 per week and was gutted and there was noone I could rely on to mind Chloe for me while I went to the sessions either. Kept wishing I had done LT while I was still in Ireland!!
Went on hols to Spain and felt miserable and the only reason I even managed to go swimming was because the pool was right across from the house, barely 10 steps away!!
Came back from hols and did some research and discovered CD and also discovered there was a CDC here and made an appointment to see her at the end of September. Started CD on October 1st and gradually lots of different parts of my life are improving, mainly down to me being happier with me. Losing weight is not the answer to all my prayers though, and is slowly uncovering other things that I need to work on......even though I can be full of confidence, I still have very low self esteem and a very low idea of my self worth and I need to sort that out before it affects my daughter.
I will be 26 on tuesday and although my family are all in Ireland, this is one birthday I am kind of looking forward to-its the first one I can remember that is at a time when I am in control of something (my diet being the thing I can control), and to me that is a huge achievement.
I have less than 3 stone to go to get to goal (OMG, cant believe I can actually say that now!!) and would like to be close to my 10stone goal for easter and maintaining then for the rest of my life! |