Canadatogo
Full Member
There are two things I love: good food, and [strike]wine[/strike] to whine.
In school, I started growing and 'developing' the fastest. That's not really something an eleven year old wants, and that's when I started putting on weight; to hide my body, and so that I would have something to hide behind. I never really thought of myself as 'fat', just chubby, chunky, or as having some extra insulation (a valid point when the temperature can dip below -50C during the winter.) I also never realised how much food I ate until my last year in high school or in college, when I realised that I was eating for the mojority of the time that I spent at home. During my last year in high school I had my schedule arranged so that I only had classes in the morning (hard concept for you all to understand maybe, just bear with me), and then worked in the local greasy spoon from 4 to 10 five days out of the week. A lot of things happened in that year, and I had a pretty tough time, so I turned to comfort eating as well.
I went to college for professional baking (just a one year course), and now I'm here in the UK, on my own, (looking for work at the mo, btw.) College was a blast, but the stress and the crazy and unpredictable hours didn't help much with my diet. My highest weight was probably last year, though, at about 14 1/2st.
Now, finally, living on my own for the second year (after one in Ireland) I'm ready to do something about my weight. I tend to go between calorie counting and slimfast, which seems to be working for me. Especially because I can see this working in the longterm.
One of my problems is that I'm capable of making a lot of things, and enjoy baking, so I'll whip up caramels, chocolates, biscuits, fudge, cakes, or almost anything on a whim.
So let's see how I get on with this diet of mine...
In school, I started growing and 'developing' the fastest. That's not really something an eleven year old wants, and that's when I started putting on weight; to hide my body, and so that I would have something to hide behind. I never really thought of myself as 'fat', just chubby, chunky, or as having some extra insulation (a valid point when the temperature can dip below -50C during the winter.) I also never realised how much food I ate until my last year in high school or in college, when I realised that I was eating for the mojority of the time that I spent at home. During my last year in high school I had my schedule arranged so that I only had classes in the morning (hard concept for you all to understand maybe, just bear with me), and then worked in the local greasy spoon from 4 to 10 five days out of the week. A lot of things happened in that year, and I had a pretty tough time, so I turned to comfort eating as well.
I went to college for professional baking (just a one year course), and now I'm here in the UK, on my own, (looking for work at the mo, btw.) College was a blast, but the stress and the crazy and unpredictable hours didn't help much with my diet. My highest weight was probably last year, though, at about 14 1/2st.
Now, finally, living on my own for the second year (after one in Ireland) I'm ready to do something about my weight. I tend to go between calorie counting and slimfast, which seems to be working for me. Especially because I can see this working in the longterm.
One of my problems is that I'm capable of making a lot of things, and enjoy baking, so I'll whip up caramels, chocolates, biscuits, fudge, cakes, or almost anything on a whim.
So let's see how I get on with this diet of mine...
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