lottiebird
Silver Member
Hi all,
I am starting SnS on Monday, I can't wait! I have been plateauing for ages, I was on SW for a year, then JUDDD since Feb. I can't wait to get those scales moving again!
I really love JUDDD but I lack control, hence the plateau. I am hoping that doing 4 packs a day with no other food for a few months will help me to improve my perspective on food and hunger. Sort of like taking a step back from choosing what to eat, if that makes sense.
I am not planning on easing myself into it by going low carb, I fully intend to enjoy eating this weekend and then Monday is day one. I am really excited! I read that I can expect to lose a stone a month. I have been looking around the forums to see how people have done on 4 packs and no food over a few months, but I am mostly finding week 1 results, or people doing the lifestyle plan, so if anyone can share this info from their experience that would be great
A bit of background:
I started life as a very hungry baby (according to my mum), and well... nothing ever really changed. I was overweight as a child, and by the time I was 9 I had been to dieticians and slimming clubs, with minimal results. I became a secret eater and started to binge eat regularly. My struggles continued throughout my teens, where I tried a variety of pills, potions, fad diets, the whole caboodle. Lots of misery, and not so many results either.
I got up to 20 stone at 18 years old, at which point my mother offered to pay for me to have weight loss surgery overseas. I went for a gastric band implant, and dropped 9 stone without batting an eyelid. I continued eating whatever I wanted, and the gastric band enabled me to just throw it all up with no effort. I think I was too young, and not truly ready to change. This continued until suddenly I couldn't keep anything down at all, including water. I had to have my gastric band removed as my body had started to reject it, after having it for 10 years.
In my mind, I was at my goal weight, and all I would need to do was maintain it... How naive is that? My weight ballooned and I regained all but 2 stone of the weight I had lost in a very short time. I was eating in secret and binge-eating on thousands of calories, so I don't know what else I expected to happen. My mental health really suffered, and this had a further impact on my eating, and I just got into a really bad, self-destruct cycle. Eventually I had to leave the city I was living in and make a fresh start. so me and my then-boyfriend (now husband) packed up and left.
In January 2012 I joined Slimming World. This went well, and I lost just shy of 3 stone. Then for reasons I can't put my finger on, my binge-eating started to really escalate again. I decided to seek professional help, and was referred to a support group by my GP. I had already done a lot of reading on the topic, and the group leaders really reinforced what I already knew. The downfall was that medicalising my eating in this way gave me a sense of freedom to eat even more. I would think "Some people in the group binge 5 nights a week, so its okay for me to binge 3". I moved to JUDDD in February, good losses to start but my intake on up days was ridiculous.
I am 31, live in Northamptonshire with my husband Luke and our cat-child Luni (yes I am a crazy cat lady). We just bought our first home in December, and life is treating me kindly at the moment
I am starting SnS on Monday, I can't wait! I have been plateauing for ages, I was on SW for a year, then JUDDD since Feb. I can't wait to get those scales moving again!
I really love JUDDD but I lack control, hence the plateau. I am hoping that doing 4 packs a day with no other food for a few months will help me to improve my perspective on food and hunger. Sort of like taking a step back from choosing what to eat, if that makes sense.
I am not planning on easing myself into it by going low carb, I fully intend to enjoy eating this weekend and then Monday is day one. I am really excited! I read that I can expect to lose a stone a month. I have been looking around the forums to see how people have done on 4 packs and no food over a few months, but I am mostly finding week 1 results, or people doing the lifestyle plan, so if anyone can share this info from their experience that would be great
A bit of background:
I started life as a very hungry baby (according to my mum), and well... nothing ever really changed. I was overweight as a child, and by the time I was 9 I had been to dieticians and slimming clubs, with minimal results. I became a secret eater and started to binge eat regularly. My struggles continued throughout my teens, where I tried a variety of pills, potions, fad diets, the whole caboodle. Lots of misery, and not so many results either.
I got up to 20 stone at 18 years old, at which point my mother offered to pay for me to have weight loss surgery overseas. I went for a gastric band implant, and dropped 9 stone without batting an eyelid. I continued eating whatever I wanted, and the gastric band enabled me to just throw it all up with no effort. I think I was too young, and not truly ready to change. This continued until suddenly I couldn't keep anything down at all, including water. I had to have my gastric band removed as my body had started to reject it, after having it for 10 years.
In my mind, I was at my goal weight, and all I would need to do was maintain it... How naive is that? My weight ballooned and I regained all but 2 stone of the weight I had lost in a very short time. I was eating in secret and binge-eating on thousands of calories, so I don't know what else I expected to happen. My mental health really suffered, and this had a further impact on my eating, and I just got into a really bad, self-destruct cycle. Eventually I had to leave the city I was living in and make a fresh start. so me and my then-boyfriend (now husband) packed up and left.
In January 2012 I joined Slimming World. This went well, and I lost just shy of 3 stone. Then for reasons I can't put my finger on, my binge-eating started to really escalate again. I decided to seek professional help, and was referred to a support group by my GP. I had already done a lot of reading on the topic, and the group leaders really reinforced what I already knew. The downfall was that medicalising my eating in this way gave me a sense of freedom to eat even more. I would think "Some people in the group binge 5 nights a week, so its okay for me to binge 3". I moved to JUDDD in February, good losses to start but my intake on up days was ridiculous.
I am 31, live in Northamptonshire with my husband Luke and our cat-child Luni (yes I am a crazy cat lady). We just bought our first home in December, and life is treating me kindly at the moment
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