Able to go shopping for crisps and biccies for kids without eating half of them in the car on the way back from the shops?
Having cupboards full of previously 'forbidden' foods go untouched?
Sit for 3 hours every evening without stuffing food into my mouth without enjoying or tasting it, looking to supress any feeling?
Not constantly thinking about food?
Not feeling guilty, worthless, stupid, fat, lazy and disgusting every minute of every day for over 20 years?
Saying...

flumpster67

Whilst watching Gladiators last night I was struck by the disregard that my husband seemed to have for the heavier Gladiators, Battleaxe and the older Rocket,as if there was no point being on the show unless you were skinny with big boobs. I pointed out that at my heaviest 4 or 5 weeks ago I was 2 stone heavier than these girls on there and even now still a stone heavier and 2 or 3 inches shorter. Theres no way I could leap up a climbing wall or hang my bodyweight from suspended rings! This is...

flumpster67

Okay 5 weeks in and everything is going well, weight going down, exercise going up, making good food choices and the obsessing about food part is away.
What the heck has happened to me? Why, all of a sudden after 25 years of yoyo dieting, binging, obsessing about 'right' and 'wrong' foods, thinking about my next food while still eating the last, wondering where whole packets off biscuits have gone, eating in secret, I have regained control over my life? I just don't get it - but I love it!...

flumpster67

Well one month into the new me - things are changing, yes, the weight is going, which is great, but more importantly, my mindset appearss to be changing to.
I am making a conscious effort to be positive about things, trying to use positive language, not using weight LOSS, always a negative word really, not saying I cant have this or that, choosing not to, and really trying to like myself as I am. That doesnt mean that I don't want to be slimmer, just feel I don't need to hate myself in the...

flumpster67