Cheryll
Member
Hi to anyone kind enough to be reading this,
I have always struggled some what with my weight since being about 16. It all started when I started college and had my own source of income and found myself snacking on chocolate, crisps, chips and whatever else I could get my hands on cheaply and easily in between college classes. This combined with the sudden stop of any kind of excerise - be it the three times a week dance lessons I'd been attending since the age of three stopping due to the school closing and of course the three times a week P.E. lessons I had to partake in at school no longer being part of my weekly rountine I found myself gradually putting on weight being bigger then I ever was before. I wasn't as big as I find myself now, however I still thought of myself as 'fat' and struggled with my weight for the next two years.
Fast forward to my first year of uni, I made a decision i'd been toying with for a long time and became a vegeterian (much to my parents disgust - I stayed at home for my three years at uni), I wasn't happy to admit it at the time but am willing to now admit my diet in this time was awful. I hardly ate anything, I used my vegetarianism as an excuse to eat next to nothing due to 'not being able to as its not vegeterian friendly'. I found myself much smaller then I had ever been and refused to listen when people told me how ill I looked due to my weight loss. I recently found a picture of myself during this time and felt ill looking at how underweight I looked. I continued on this path for two years until one day I realised just how ill I was making myself due to my vegetarianism, I was unable to make it a healthly life choice for myself (I know its possible for some people, but I just wasn't eating correctly). I then reintroduced fish and then gradually meat and then gradually everything else i'd loved before and stopped eating during those two years and slowly but surely I got to a healthy weight and then I went further then that and found myself once again bigger then I had ever been before.
Fast forward a few years I decided to give slimming world a try and lost a good amount of weight and was back on track to a decent and healthy weight. I then moved out of my parents and in with my boyfriend, this teamed with me being unable to make it to group because of work commitments I slowly piled all but 3lbs of the weight i'd worked so hard to loose back on and once again find myself unhappy with the way I look and have decided to go back to slimming world.
I started the plan yesterday and am going to use this diary to track how i'm doing and feeling probably on a weekly basis.
I don't have a large amount of weight to loose and hope to be able to be happy with my body once again by this time next year, because as much as I would like a quick fix the weight didn't go on overnight and will not just fall off overnight.
Cheryl xx
I have always struggled some what with my weight since being about 16. It all started when I started college and had my own source of income and found myself snacking on chocolate, crisps, chips and whatever else I could get my hands on cheaply and easily in between college classes. This combined with the sudden stop of any kind of excerise - be it the three times a week dance lessons I'd been attending since the age of three stopping due to the school closing and of course the three times a week P.E. lessons I had to partake in at school no longer being part of my weekly rountine I found myself gradually putting on weight being bigger then I ever was before. I wasn't as big as I find myself now, however I still thought of myself as 'fat' and struggled with my weight for the next two years.
Fast forward to my first year of uni, I made a decision i'd been toying with for a long time and became a vegeterian (much to my parents disgust - I stayed at home for my three years at uni), I wasn't happy to admit it at the time but am willing to now admit my diet in this time was awful. I hardly ate anything, I used my vegetarianism as an excuse to eat next to nothing due to 'not being able to as its not vegeterian friendly'. I found myself much smaller then I had ever been and refused to listen when people told me how ill I looked due to my weight loss. I recently found a picture of myself during this time and felt ill looking at how underweight I looked. I continued on this path for two years until one day I realised just how ill I was making myself due to my vegetarianism, I was unable to make it a healthly life choice for myself (I know its possible for some people, but I just wasn't eating correctly). I then reintroduced fish and then gradually meat and then gradually everything else i'd loved before and stopped eating during those two years and slowly but surely I got to a healthy weight and then I went further then that and found myself once again bigger then I had ever been before.
Fast forward a few years I decided to give slimming world a try and lost a good amount of weight and was back on track to a decent and healthy weight. I then moved out of my parents and in with my boyfriend, this teamed with me being unable to make it to group because of work commitments I slowly piled all but 3lbs of the weight i'd worked so hard to loose back on and once again find myself unhappy with the way I look and have decided to go back to slimming world.
I started the plan yesterday and am going to use this diary to track how i'm doing and feeling probably on a weekly basis.
I don't have a large amount of weight to loose and hope to be able to be happy with my body once again by this time next year, because as much as I would like a quick fix the weight didn't go on overnight and will not just fall off overnight.
Cheryl xx
