Pistachionut
Member
Hey!
So this is my first ever post on minimins, I'm sure I should do the whole introduction thing but I'm not that interesting so I'll just give a brief bit of background info and leave it at that.
I'm 32, 5'7 and 14st 11lbs. It's pretty bad but I made it up to 17st 7 some time in my twenties. I managed to lose it and get down to 11st with good ol' fashioned calorie counting and exercise but times change and now I have kids, work full time and all the usual malarkey that goes with raising a family and I find it almost impossible now to do all the meal prep and exercise that I did back then.
So after a bit of an internal debate with myself about doing things "the right way" but having a constant battle with my emotional eating, stress eating and comfort eating, I decided to take food out of the equation for a while and see where it gets me.
I've tried Atkins (too much cooking and not enough sauce / crunch), slimming world (I detest calling food "syns"), calorie counting (too flexible) and even 5:2 (not bad but it's all or nothing). This feels like a last ditch attempt to get myself back where I felt good and most importantly, happy.
So here I am, day one... except not really as my exante order hasn't arrived yet, instead I'm having 2 slim fast vitality shakes and 1 asda meal replacement porridge to get me through. So far I feel great, a slight headache around midday which was easily helped with paracetamol, but no real hunger and I've not actually had the porridge yet. My logic is that although I won't go into ketosis using slim fast, by the time I get the exante packs, i should have worked through a fair bit of my stored glycogen and so it'll be a bit easier.
I'm hoping to get back to 11st, or even better 10st 7lbs. I miss the old me, it's been a long time since I've been truly happy and confident. Time to change!
So this is my first ever post on minimins, I'm sure I should do the whole introduction thing but I'm not that interesting so I'll just give a brief bit of background info and leave it at that.
I'm 32, 5'7 and 14st 11lbs. It's pretty bad but I made it up to 17st 7 some time in my twenties. I managed to lose it and get down to 11st with good ol' fashioned calorie counting and exercise but times change and now I have kids, work full time and all the usual malarkey that goes with raising a family and I find it almost impossible now to do all the meal prep and exercise that I did back then.
So after a bit of an internal debate with myself about doing things "the right way" but having a constant battle with my emotional eating, stress eating and comfort eating, I decided to take food out of the equation for a while and see where it gets me.
I've tried Atkins (too much cooking and not enough sauce / crunch), slimming world (I detest calling food "syns"), calorie counting (too flexible) and even 5:2 (not bad but it's all or nothing). This feels like a last ditch attempt to get myself back where I felt good and most importantly, happy.
So here I am, day one... except not really as my exante order hasn't arrived yet, instead I'm having 2 slim fast vitality shakes and 1 asda meal replacement porridge to get me through. So far I feel great, a slight headache around midday which was easily helped with paracetamol, but no real hunger and I've not actually had the porridge yet. My logic is that although I won't go into ketosis using slim fast, by the time I get the exante packs, i should have worked through a fair bit of my stored glycogen and so it'll be a bit easier.
I'm hoping to get back to 11st, or even better 10st 7lbs. I miss the old me, it's been a long time since I've been truly happy and confident. Time to change!