Aw thank you...it still amazes me that I could be inspiration to anyone after trying and failing so many times!
Another update from me, just to say that I weighed myself today and I'm 10st 4lbs, so officialy back under by target weight for the first time in agggges
Admittedly, I've never let it get out of my sight but it feels so good to be 1lb under goal than hovering 3-4lbs over it!
Other than that, there's not much else to report - I'm still eating pretty healthily for the most part, and on the whole I'm really enjoying my meals. The only negative thing is that I'm still getting quite anxious about situations when I can't plan/prepare/calorie count my meals, and seem to approach social occasions with a mixture of excitement and dread :-/ I'm okay day-to-day as I do keep a fairly tight rein on my meals, and use MFP to work out my calories, it's just meals out, holidays and weekends away that seem to bother me the most. Times when I really want to let go of my tight grip on calories, but daren't quite allow myself somehow. Or when I do, I spend half the time dreading how much weight I'm gaining as a result.
Now I know I shouldn't see things as being so black and white - a meal out does not necessarily mean a binge/weight gain, I suppose I just need to learn to trust myself to keep an element of self control, and to trust my body that it won't start gaining the weight back!
I suppose I should be kind to myself really, it's only month 7 of maintenence for me, after 30 years of an abnormal attitude to food, so it's bound to feel alien at first. I'm off to London with a good friend of mine on Sunday, so I'm going to try to put calories and diets to one side, relax and enjoy some good food and some good wine with a great friend!
Hope everyone else is doing well with their journeys - whether you're just at the beginning or a bit further down the line like me x
