JoolsG
Full Member
... introducing myself. I've been lurking
Hello :wavey:
I've not been a yo-yo dieter but just kept starting diets and very rarely made it through the first week without first cheating a little, then a lot. Also I used to get so disappointed when I'd been 'good' all week and find I'd either lost no weight (or at one point gained!!!) or very little 1/2lb. I'm a girl who needs to see results - sooner rather than later.
I've never been skinny but I wasn't overweight either (around 10st ish, sometimes down to 9 1/2st, I'm 5ft 6" so reasonably tall) but I put loads of weight on with my first child. I think the combination of getting married, moving out of home, moving town, leaving my job and getting pregnant all in the space of 2 months just left me a little down. So once I got pregnant all I did was sit in front of the tv and eat, and eat, and eat (I didn't know anyone so that's all I could do ).
Learnt my lesson by children 2 & 3 but by then the damage was done and I've never really been focussed enough to lose the weight.
I'm babbling now so I'll get to the point: I started SS on CD last Monday (10th September) and had my first weigh-in just 5 days later (so only actually 4 days on SS) and had lost 6lbs. Had my second weigh-in this morning and in the last week I have lost 8lbs - so a stone already!!! YAY!!! arty0011:
Some days have been a struggle, still suffering a little with light headedness but apart from that it's going well.
I would like to start back at the gym though but am a little worried about working out on such a low intake of calories. What does everyone else do?
Hello :wavey:
I've not been a yo-yo dieter but just kept starting diets and very rarely made it through the first week without first cheating a little, then a lot. Also I used to get so disappointed when I'd been 'good' all week and find I'd either lost no weight (or at one point gained!!!) or very little 1/2lb. I'm a girl who needs to see results - sooner rather than later.
I've never been skinny but I wasn't overweight either (around 10st ish, sometimes down to 9 1/2st, I'm 5ft 6" so reasonably tall) but I put loads of weight on with my first child. I think the combination of getting married, moving out of home, moving town, leaving my job and getting pregnant all in the space of 2 months just left me a little down. So once I got pregnant all I did was sit in front of the tv and eat, and eat, and eat (I didn't know anyone so that's all I could do ).
Learnt my lesson by children 2 & 3 but by then the damage was done and I've never really been focussed enough to lose the weight.
I'm babbling now so I'll get to the point: I started SS on CD last Monday (10th September) and had my first weigh-in just 5 days later (so only actually 4 days on SS) and had lost 6lbs. Had my second weigh-in this morning and in the last week I have lost 8lbs - so a stone already!!! YAY!!! arty0011:
Some days have been a struggle, still suffering a little with light headedness but apart from that it's going well.
I would like to start back at the gym though but am a little worried about working out on such a low intake of calories. What does everyone else do?