munchkin88
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Here goes.. what will hopefully be my final weight loss story!
I will be turning 26 later this year which will be 10 years since going to university and 10 years since I last worse anything with a size 10 label. I was a size 10 with a slight muffin top and just generally "soft". At that age I considered myself fat, now I would do anything to look like that again. I've decided that 10 years of weight gaining and losing and gaining and losing (more gaining than losing really!) is over, I am going to loose this weight and then make sure I keep it off.
At uni I gave lighterlifer a shot and lost a few stone getting back down to a size 12 but it was so expensive and I couldn't afford to keep going so I never made it through maintenance. The weight crept on thanks to the lack of exercise, takeaway food, drunken munchies from the chip shop and just a really unhealthy diet. I know my problem is using food as a reward system and generally thinking of food ALL the time. A weekend away wasn't so much about the destination, it was the sweets in the car, the pastries from the garage, going out for dinner (I always pick the unhealthiest options and devour it all). I started to realise my problems as time went on and make changes to sort it out... that's when I discovered my next problem!
I want to loose weight and I want it gone now. Increasing my exercise and eating healthier (still not great, just better than before), was taking ages. I'd give it a couple weeks, see only a small change and think screw it, what's the point on missing out on x,y and z for just that.
I chose Exante Total Solution because I read peoples post's on here and saw the weight loss trackers - WOW! I'm hoping I'll find it hard to be demotivated if I'm seeing weekly losses of a few lbs at a time.
So this is the start of my final weight loss journey. I started just over a week ago at 189.4lbs (on a 4ft11 frame that is a lot of weight!). I lost 8.6lbs last week bringing me to 180.8lbs when I weighed in on Thursday.
I'm slightly nervous about this week's weigh in as at the weekend I was away and was expected to have dinner with people I'm not comfortable with enough to explain I'm dieting, particularly one where I don't eat conventional food. I tried to behave though and didn't eat in the car down, resisted anything from the garage when we stopped for fuel and chose a burger without the bun with no chips, just salad. Sunday I had no choice and was presented a chicken casserole, I just ate the chicken and veg and hoped no one would ask why I didn't eat the potatoes! I'm hoping I'm still in ketosis and haven't ruined this week's loss. I'm very tempted to jump on the scales tonight and sneak a peek!
I'm going to try and update this as I go along to track my progress. I've not kept a diary before so we'll see!
I will be turning 26 later this year which will be 10 years since going to university and 10 years since I last worse anything with a size 10 label. I was a size 10 with a slight muffin top and just generally "soft". At that age I considered myself fat, now I would do anything to look like that again. I've decided that 10 years of weight gaining and losing and gaining and losing (more gaining than losing really!) is over, I am going to loose this weight and then make sure I keep it off.
At uni I gave lighterlifer a shot and lost a few stone getting back down to a size 12 but it was so expensive and I couldn't afford to keep going so I never made it through maintenance. The weight crept on thanks to the lack of exercise, takeaway food, drunken munchies from the chip shop and just a really unhealthy diet. I know my problem is using food as a reward system and generally thinking of food ALL the time. A weekend away wasn't so much about the destination, it was the sweets in the car, the pastries from the garage, going out for dinner (I always pick the unhealthiest options and devour it all). I started to realise my problems as time went on and make changes to sort it out... that's when I discovered my next problem!
I want to loose weight and I want it gone now. Increasing my exercise and eating healthier (still not great, just better than before), was taking ages. I'd give it a couple weeks, see only a small change and think screw it, what's the point on missing out on x,y and z for just that.
I chose Exante Total Solution because I read peoples post's on here and saw the weight loss trackers - WOW! I'm hoping I'll find it hard to be demotivated if I'm seeing weekly losses of a few lbs at a time.
So this is the start of my final weight loss journey. I started just over a week ago at 189.4lbs (on a 4ft11 frame that is a lot of weight!). I lost 8.6lbs last week bringing me to 180.8lbs when I weighed in on Thursday.
I'm slightly nervous about this week's weigh in as at the weekend I was away and was expected to have dinner with people I'm not comfortable with enough to explain I'm dieting, particularly one where I don't eat conventional food. I tried to behave though and didn't eat in the car down, resisted anything from the garage when we stopped for fuel and chose a burger without the bun with no chips, just salad. Sunday I had no choice and was presented a chicken casserole, I just ate the chicken and veg and hoped no one would ask why I didn't eat the potatoes! I'm hoping I'm still in ketosis and haven't ruined this week's loss. I'm very tempted to jump on the scales tonight and sneak a peek!
I'm going to try and update this as I go along to track my progress. I've not kept a diary before so we'll see!