Curvy_Chicken
Full Member
If you look very carefully on mimimins, in the GI diet section you'll see that I was here two (or three!) years ago trying to lose weight through the GI diet. I was very successful, particularly as it was a diet without a support group (bar the support here of course!) and it was my first ever attempt at dieting. I went from 14 stone and 7 pounds to 11 stone 13 pounds.
In that period of weightloss I was obsessed with dieting, hated myself (convinced that a thin me would make me like myself) and I ate nothing sweet, apart from fruit. The GI diet offers plenty of sweet and even chocolate alternatives, but I went from being a small choc bar a day person to none.
Then of course the inevitable happened - the dreaded plateau! The weight stopped coming off and I found myself craving chocolate. I gave into my chocolate cravings and started eating it secretly.
I knew immeditely that eating sweet stuff secretly was wrong, but I felt ashamed of it. The weight stopped coming off and I when on my own I would eat highly calorific foods, sweet and chocolately food in large amounts. I was utterly distraught, but then my lovely, wonderful boyfriend did something amazing. For my birthday he had brought me sessions with a hypnotherapist - something he knew I had always wanted to try and I could have past life regression or use the sessions for whatever I wanted.
Still being diet obsessed I used the hypnotherapy sessions for weightloss, but in hindsight if I hadn't have used them for that purpose I am pretty sure I would have developed an eating disorder.
I realised that the best use I could get out of these sessions would be for some specific goals, so I asked for the sessions to help me stop eating choc/sweet stuff and to give me the courage to go to the gym as I was painfully self conscious and afraid to go alone.
Hypnotherapy worked so well for both of these things, I am now still now signed up to a gym - which I use without fear! But like most gym users, my use is patchy, however that is down to me not due to fear of using it! And I stopped eating choc for 18 months - impressive! I'm now eating again, but I seem to have reset, its just small choc bars or a piece of cake - not the whole boody thing!
Now I am in a much different place mentally. I am happy and I like myself, it really is ok to be me! Over time I my weight has slowly crept up again (14 stone!) but it no longers stops me from having the confidence to try new things or from doing anything I want to do. But I don't feel as healthy as I did physically when at my lightest and I feel I deserve to do the best my body!
So I am back, I am going to lose weight and I will at some point in the future I will be 9 stone. From all of the dieting mishaps above I have opted for weight watchers online, as I think moderation rather abstinence from sweet things is key for me. I don't have WW group near enough to me so here will be my support!
I shall update here regularly with my progress!
Rach xx
PS I would just like to say that I am not suggesting that the GI diet leads to eating disorders - it was my interpretation of it, plus the fact that I was diet insane that made it horribly backfire on me...
In that period of weightloss I was obsessed with dieting, hated myself (convinced that a thin me would make me like myself) and I ate nothing sweet, apart from fruit. The GI diet offers plenty of sweet and even chocolate alternatives, but I went from being a small choc bar a day person to none.
Then of course the inevitable happened - the dreaded plateau! The weight stopped coming off and I found myself craving chocolate. I gave into my chocolate cravings and started eating it secretly.
I knew immeditely that eating sweet stuff secretly was wrong, but I felt ashamed of it. The weight stopped coming off and I when on my own I would eat highly calorific foods, sweet and chocolately food in large amounts. I was utterly distraught, but then my lovely, wonderful boyfriend did something amazing. For my birthday he had brought me sessions with a hypnotherapist - something he knew I had always wanted to try and I could have past life regression or use the sessions for whatever I wanted.
Still being diet obsessed I used the hypnotherapy sessions for weightloss, but in hindsight if I hadn't have used them for that purpose I am pretty sure I would have developed an eating disorder.
I realised that the best use I could get out of these sessions would be for some specific goals, so I asked for the sessions to help me stop eating choc/sweet stuff and to give me the courage to go to the gym as I was painfully self conscious and afraid to go alone.
Hypnotherapy worked so well for both of these things, I am now still now signed up to a gym - which I use without fear! But like most gym users, my use is patchy, however that is down to me not due to fear of using it! And I stopped eating choc for 18 months - impressive! I'm now eating again, but I seem to have reset, its just small choc bars or a piece of cake - not the whole boody thing!
Now I am in a much different place mentally. I am happy and I like myself, it really is ok to be me! Over time I my weight has slowly crept up again (14 stone!) but it no longers stops me from having the confidence to try new things or from doing anything I want to do. But I don't feel as healthy as I did physically when at my lightest and I feel I deserve to do the best my body!
So I am back, I am going to lose weight and I will at some point in the future I will be 9 stone. From all of the dieting mishaps above I have opted for weight watchers online, as I think moderation rather abstinence from sweet things is key for me. I don't have WW group near enough to me so here will be my support!
I shall update here regularly with my progress!
Rach xx
PS I would just like to say that I am not suggesting that the GI diet leads to eating disorders - it was my interpretation of it, plus the fact that I was diet insane that made it horribly backfire on me...
