yo-yo-dieter
Silver Member
Dear all,
I think I have found the place on mini-mins that I can call home.
I am perpetually starting diets only to fall off the wagon days or weeks later.
I started my first diet back in late 1998 when I weighed 11st 5lbs. I noticed I had been getting a bit tubby and was a size 14 needing to buy my next pair of jeans as a size 16, so read up on diets and went on a 1000 cals per day and lost 9lbs in 6 weeks, taking me to 10st 10lbs, which I think is my 'perfect'weight.
That marked the start of nearly 12 years of constant yo-yo-dieting and struggling with my weight.
Fast forward 12 years and I am - as of this morning 15st 1.5lbs (which is the heaviest I have ever been).
It hasn't helped me that clothing manufacturers have made clothes bigger over those past 12 years which has helped me stay in denial. I'm almost 4 stones heavier than I was in 1998 yet I am only a size 16, needing to go into an 18 (depending on shop).
Over the years I have done several diets, most frequent being calorie counting (anything between 1000 to 1500 per day), Slimming world, Weight Watchers, Paul McKenna, had a personalised hypnosis tape made, Cambridge Diet, Celebrity Slim and Lighter Life. The latter was the most successful (and most expensive!) and I got down to 10st 4lbs (having lost 3st 5lbs) only to put every single pound on within a year. I'd love to be able to do it again, but there's no way I would have the willpower. I did look really good though - and (back to clothes sizes again) at that weight I was a size 10 and in some shops, depending on style, I could get into an 8. I seem to be one of those people who looks slimmer than they weigh.
Trouble is that after 12 years I am sick to death of yo-yo dieting and I don't know how to break the cycle.
The batteries in my weighing scales ran out a few weeks ago and I thought: "Great, I'm gonna stop obsessing over the scales and just try to eat normally, when I'm hungry, smaller portions etc". So after three weeks I was keen to see how I had done. I didn't feel any slimmer but surely I must be? Nope. I'd put on half a stone without binge eating once. I truly do not have a clue what normal eating is.
So, here I am at 35. Highlight of my day is eating and once I have eaten I'm thinking ahead to what I can have next.I am just completely fed up.
So - I definitely feel like a WEMITT, and ideally I need to shift about 64.5lbs (but a minimum of 50lbs) and it seems like such a long slog ahead of me.
I've even been thinking about eating myself up a few stones more and then going cap in hand to the NHS begging for a gastric band! Yes, that's how desperate I feel. I reckon I could put another 4st on in a year, so why not put that energy to good use and try LOSE it in that time.
I use Weight Loss Resources to track my calories (laughs hysterically) and they recommend 1605 cals to lose 1lb per week but it seems like a lot to me, surely dieting is about starvation???? (joke)
I promise I will try and post everyday and let you know how I get on and perhaps support some of you on your threads?
Well done if you got this far
I think I have found the place on mini-mins that I can call home.
I am perpetually starting diets only to fall off the wagon days or weeks later.
I started my first diet back in late 1998 when I weighed 11st 5lbs. I noticed I had been getting a bit tubby and was a size 14 needing to buy my next pair of jeans as a size 16, so read up on diets and went on a 1000 cals per day and lost 9lbs in 6 weeks, taking me to 10st 10lbs, which I think is my 'perfect'weight.
That marked the start of nearly 12 years of constant yo-yo-dieting and struggling with my weight.
Fast forward 12 years and I am - as of this morning 15st 1.5lbs (which is the heaviest I have ever been).
It hasn't helped me that clothing manufacturers have made clothes bigger over those past 12 years which has helped me stay in denial. I'm almost 4 stones heavier than I was in 1998 yet I am only a size 16, needing to go into an 18 (depending on shop).
Over the years I have done several diets, most frequent being calorie counting (anything between 1000 to 1500 per day), Slimming world, Weight Watchers, Paul McKenna, had a personalised hypnosis tape made, Cambridge Diet, Celebrity Slim and Lighter Life. The latter was the most successful (and most expensive!) and I got down to 10st 4lbs (having lost 3st 5lbs) only to put every single pound on within a year. I'd love to be able to do it again, but there's no way I would have the willpower. I did look really good though - and (back to clothes sizes again) at that weight I was a size 10 and in some shops, depending on style, I could get into an 8. I seem to be one of those people who looks slimmer than they weigh.
Trouble is that after 12 years I am sick to death of yo-yo dieting and I don't know how to break the cycle.
The batteries in my weighing scales ran out a few weeks ago and I thought: "Great, I'm gonna stop obsessing over the scales and just try to eat normally, when I'm hungry, smaller portions etc". So after three weeks I was keen to see how I had done. I didn't feel any slimmer but surely I must be? Nope. I'd put on half a stone without binge eating once. I truly do not have a clue what normal eating is.
So, here I am at 35. Highlight of my day is eating and once I have eaten I'm thinking ahead to what I can have next.I am just completely fed up.
So - I definitely feel like a WEMITT, and ideally I need to shift about 64.5lbs (but a minimum of 50lbs) and it seems like such a long slog ahead of me.
I've even been thinking about eating myself up a few stones more and then going cap in hand to the NHS begging for a gastric band! Yes, that's how desperate I feel. I reckon I could put another 4st on in a year, so why not put that energy to good use and try LOSE it in that time.
I use Weight Loss Resources to track my calories (laughs hysterically) and they recommend 1605 cals to lose 1lb per week but it seems like a lot to me, surely dieting is about starvation???? (joke)
I promise I will try and post everyday and let you know how I get on and perhaps support some of you on your threads?
Well done if you got this far