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Wanna lose 100lb
Hi folks I am going to try my best to lose six stone by Maundy Thursday, 2nd April 2015 which is the day I go on holiday to Switzerland and Italy.
I went on holiday in April and had THE most miserable time imaginable. I am now determined not to have a repeat of this. It was miserable because:
I could add half a dozen more miseries but you get the picture. It is IMPOSSIBLE to enjoy a city-break sightseeing type of holiday with a BMI of 64 and I refuse to try again. Thank goodness my travel companion hasn't given up on me: he invited me on another holiday last month but I did not go, PURELY because I am too fat. How sad is that?
Worse than that, because I would not go abroad he came and stayed at my house for a week and each day he went out alone, walking for miles, and visited many places of interest and outdoor events and I stayed indoors all day every day because I am so fat.
Now, THAT is what I call rock bottom. Missing the sunshine, missing the summer, missing events, missing out on companionship, fun, interesting events etc.
I am now determined to start living again.
He wants to go abroad for Easter, which gives me a definite goal to aim for to lose enough so that I can be a proper companion to him, walk and stand and travel in (relative) comfort.
I would love to find some other ladies in the UK who are a similar weight and understand all the problems that it brings, and are determined to lose 6 stone.
We can support one another and post our menus. I am keeping a public food log on MFP under this name.
I am aiming for 1600 calories daily but am allowed to exceed to 1700 IF I find 1600 leaves me hungry.
I have bought Paul McKenna's Hypnotic gastric Band and await delivery. I have printed out all of Mardy Roux's Obesity Treatment Project.
http://winningtheobesitybattle.word...rdy-roux-obesity-treatment-project-–-phase-1/
It is 15 years since I weighed 19 stone so this is going to be a huge life change for me. I need support and encouragement.
Love to you all
366.
I went on holiday in April and had THE most miserable time imaginable. I am now determined not to have a repeat of this. It was miserable because:
- I cannot climb in or out of a bath so had to ensure hotel rooms had a walk in shower
- Struggled to get into plane seat, horribly uncomfortable with arm rests digging into my legs and public embarrassment at having to ask for seatbelt extender
- Terribly uncomfortable walking through airport, my feet, ankles, legs hurting terribly. Booked disabled assistance (which made me feel terrible in itself) and they sent a wheelchair too narrow for my hips so I still had to waddle, seemingly for miles, getting hot and irritable and puffing and panting with people staring at me. We can imagine what they were thinking, can't we?
- Used a public toilet but the door would not shut as my body was in the way. Had to pee with door open!
- Unable to sight-see much because unable to stand or walk for more than ten minutes. Had to pay out a lot of money on taxis for short journeys
- Unable to enjoy museums or galleries as unable to stand or walk for more than ten minutes. Had to leave without seeing everything.
- Unable to run for a bus or train about to leave and missed them
- Unable to fit comfortably on a bus or train seat and mortified when having to share seat with another person
- Struggled to climb up into trams, buses
- Struggled to climb stairs which meant I missed out on a lot of sight seeing and museums' upper floors.
- Felt incredibly ashamed that my companion was witnessing my self-inflicted disability
- Felt incredibly ashamed that my companion missed out on a lot of sigh-seeing, cut museum visits short etc because I could not go on
I could add half a dozen more miseries but you get the picture. It is IMPOSSIBLE to enjoy a city-break sightseeing type of holiday with a BMI of 64 and I refuse to try again. Thank goodness my travel companion hasn't given up on me: he invited me on another holiday last month but I did not go, PURELY because I am too fat. How sad is that?
Worse than that, because I would not go abroad he came and stayed at my house for a week and each day he went out alone, walking for miles, and visited many places of interest and outdoor events and I stayed indoors all day every day because I am so fat.
Now, THAT is what I call rock bottom. Missing the sunshine, missing the summer, missing events, missing out on companionship, fun, interesting events etc.
I am now determined to start living again.
He wants to go abroad for Easter, which gives me a definite goal to aim for to lose enough so that I can be a proper companion to him, walk and stand and travel in (relative) comfort.
I would love to find some other ladies in the UK who are a similar weight and understand all the problems that it brings, and are determined to lose 6 stone.
We can support one another and post our menus. I am keeping a public food log on MFP under this name.
I am aiming for 1600 calories daily but am allowed to exceed to 1700 IF I find 1600 leaves me hungry.
I have bought Paul McKenna's Hypnotic gastric Band and await delivery. I have printed out all of Mardy Roux's Obesity Treatment Project.
http://winningtheobesitybattle.word...rdy-roux-obesity-treatment-project-–-phase-1/
It is 15 years since I weighed 19 stone so this is going to be a huge life change for me. I need support and encouragement.
Love to you all
366.
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