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Hello & welcome to my diary !!
I'm new to the forum and thought it would be helpful to me to put down my feelings, etc. If anyone does read this then hopefully it will offer something to you too?!
I'm Karen (but you knew that already - didnt you?!) and I'm 26. I believe since childhood I've had an issue with weight. I haven't been big since I was a child but I always believed I was. I was a size 14 eight years ago. I would consider it to be a nice figure, slim waist and a womanly chest and 'rear area'
I started working in a call centre when I was 19 and slowly watched my waist expand. In fact I actually caught my reflection in the mirror one morning and noticed I had a round tummy. I didn't expect it ! Sitting down all day and eating in between calls was a receipe for disaster for me. Not everyone doing that sort of job will have that frame of mind but I just ate.
I waited for all of the signs that it was time to lose weight. You hear of it... stories of woman being at friends' BBQs and breaking garden chairs and then it changed their lives and now they're slim...
I thought my sign was when I set my wedding date. I willed myself to be slinky but didnt sort my diet out to match. I just couldnt bring myself to do it. I was 18 stone on my wedding day 3 years ago.
I thought my sign was when I was offered an extension belt on the plane in April this year. The cabin crew had seen me struggling to pull my belt together but luckily I had managed it (and cut myself in two almost in the process) but when we landed I returned back to my usual ways and told myself I'd sort myself out for my next flight.
I would tell myself 'Ill start on Monday, Monday is the start of the week' and when Monday arrived I didnt start and it would be 'Oh - next Monday then...'
I've tried Slim Fast, detox routines, just eating soup... with a whole host of results (mainly in feeling sick, slightly dizzy and incredibly hungry) Nothing made enough difference for me to continue... until Tuesday 2nd August 2011.
The Friday before my friend had been complaining that she wanted to shift some pounds. I had texted her suggesting SW and that we would go together but she couldn't afford it. This got me thinking... I had just qualified as a nail technician 6 weeks earlier and left my call centre job after 7 years to work self employed and due to the appointments I was already eating slightly less than usual as I just didnt have the time.
I announced to my husband that I would be going to SW and looked up the nearest group which was really close to us and the weigh ins are on a Tuesday morning. This was perfect because I'd previously joined SW twice and each time they had been during the evening and it was the last thing I wanted to do after being at work all day... eating. To my delight & suprise my hubby said he'd join too !! This really was a shock because he's fairly quiet and shy and I was delighted that he would overcome these feelings for me, knowing it was likely he may possibly be the only male there.
So here we are... we joined on the Tuesday... I have lost 12 1/2lbs and he has lost 13 1/2lbs in three weeks. Hubby doesn't have much to lose so the plan is that he will reach his target shortly and then be a target member with free membership and continue to come to class with me.
I'd like to tell you that I'd heard the 'CLICK' in my head that I can and will do this... but the truth is no garden chairs were broken... it wasnt a Monday like I always planned for... but something in my head tells me that this is the time. Wipe away all of those previous attempts. This isn't an 'attempt' now - this is a 'success' story in the making.
Maybe I sound over-confident - I absolutely can't explain it. Previously when the subject of weight loss came up with friends, i'd comment that the only way i'd lose weight is if they locked me up with no food, they laughed but I was deadly serious. I believed I had a problem that couldn't be fixed.
Seeing the pounds disappear each week has been amazing. Yes I expect that I may just have weeks of nothing but I'll promise you this... as the numbers fall I will not see them rise again. I have no intention of un-doing this hard work.
Theres a poster in our SW that is a map of Great Britain and shows two ways, a straight road or a wiggly line going all the way down all the back roads to the goal location. I've chosen the straight line down. Choosing this road means that I can get a slightly quicker result without any lapses. This is not an instant fix but a permanent lifestyle change but I intend to continue to work hard and reap the rewards over the coming months.
SW is brilliant - I feel like I had rose-tinted glasses on with my previous times on the plan because now it just seems so straight forward. We're going to Cyprus in October for our 3rd anniversary (we got married in Cyprus) and it will be next plane journey since the extension seat belt was offered. I will click that belt into place and no doubt shed a tear
of total happiness. We have booked an apartment so we can take some Batchelors Pasta 'N' Sauces and various other bits to cook ourselves. (I love the Mild Cheese & Brocoli ones - delicious!)
I have set myself two goals in the calendar of my phone. I've worked out what the weight would be if I lost a stone a month (which would be incredibly tough but it helps me to stay focused) and the other is what i've worked out for my weight on the same day each month if I lost two pounds per week. If i'm somewhere in the middle of the two then i'll be delighted - at the moment I wont be exercising anything extra than usual light duties so if I fall below my goals I will then introduce it.
I'll finish my first entry here... if you got to the end of my ramblings then well done
Karen x
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Get into the 12s
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