Shrinking girl
Full Member
Hi everyone
I've been reading Starlight's diary on and off for a couple of weeks and have been inspired to hop back on the WW wagon again.
At my heaviest I was 20 st 5 and I managed to get down to 15st 13 (for the second time) back in January. And then--as I always seem to do at that point--I self-sabotaged and shot back up to 18st 2. Eeek!
It doesn't help--but nor does it excuse me--that I'm taking corticosteroids, so not only do I have a mammoth appetite at times, I also pile on weight even when being relatively good.
This time round I'm combining WW with hypnosis/NLP via Marisa Peer's book (You can be Thin). I doubt that I'll be following all her recommendations--I have no problem eating dairy or wheat--but her writing about combating emotional eating is really striking a chord with me. Turning food back into food rather than an emotional crutch is exactly what I need.
So far all is going well. I even found myself turning down a roast dinner yesterday at the inlaws as I didn't want to spend all my remaining points for the day on it, plus they were eating at 3pm so I'd have been ravenous by 9pm. Instead I had a bowl of veggies and a banana, then cooked up some lovely spicy pasta when we got home.
Anyway, waffle aside... I started back last week and lost a whopping 5lbs!
I've been reading Starlight's diary on and off for a couple of weeks and have been inspired to hop back on the WW wagon again.
At my heaviest I was 20 st 5 and I managed to get down to 15st 13 (for the second time) back in January. And then--as I always seem to do at that point--I self-sabotaged and shot back up to 18st 2. Eeek!
It doesn't help--but nor does it excuse me--that I'm taking corticosteroids, so not only do I have a mammoth appetite at times, I also pile on weight even when being relatively good.
This time round I'm combining WW with hypnosis/NLP via Marisa Peer's book (You can be Thin). I doubt that I'll be following all her recommendations--I have no problem eating dairy or wheat--but her writing about combating emotional eating is really striking a chord with me. Turning food back into food rather than an emotional crutch is exactly what I need.
So far all is going well. I even found myself turning down a roast dinner yesterday at the inlaws as I didn't want to spend all my remaining points for the day on it, plus they were eating at 3pm so I'd have been ravenous by 9pm. Instead I had a bowl of veggies and a banana, then cooked up some lovely spicy pasta when we got home.
Anyway, waffle aside... I started back last week and lost a whopping 5lbs!