Hello!
I am going to use this wonderful site to keep my diary. I was a very active member some years ago while at SW, it honestly helped me immensely. I have rejoined with a different username because that was my old life and I have became a very different person. Marriage and life got in the way and I well and truly fell off the wagon.
I have some health problems, a chronic pain illness and an Iron overload problem. Also I am diabetic and have PCOS. My diet is not for everyone and I can't follow any other diet plan because of certain foods I can and can't have.
I changed my diet last year. It was not due to my weight but because of pain, although I was very big. I wanted to put into practice all the information I had gathered re foods linked to pain. I was taking a considerable amount of pain medications, about 150 tablets per week which is scary to think of.
I had not exercised for 5 years, because of pain which made my weight worse, I ate terribly, I was unhappy, my marriage was abusive, I ate more, got more pain....it was a cycle.
The first day getting back on my cross trainer nearly killed me. I did 2 minutes. That was my goal and I did it. Within a week of no painkillers apart from co-codamol, my new diet and exercise, I was on it like a car bonnet for 30 mins every day. After 1 month it was an hour every day.
I lost 7 stone within months and felt unreal. I fell off the wagon again, something happened within a relationship I was in that turned my world upside down. So now 5 months later I have regained about 1 stone and with Christmas my diet has been terrible. I am chewing painkillers like sweets and its time to have a change.
I am going shopping tomorrow to stock up on the things I need so officially starting on Tuesday. As I said, this isn't all about my weight. I need to lose approx 4 stone to be considered healthy but its about pain and how I can control it.
My diet is mainly raw fruit and veg and a large cooked meal in the evenings with a small amount of meat. If I can't pick it or kill it then I won't really eat it.
I can't flippin wait!
I am going to use this wonderful site to keep my diary. I was a very active member some years ago while at SW, it honestly helped me immensely. I have rejoined with a different username because that was my old life and I have became a very different person. Marriage and life got in the way and I well and truly fell off the wagon.
I have some health problems, a chronic pain illness and an Iron overload problem. Also I am diabetic and have PCOS. My diet is not for everyone and I can't follow any other diet plan because of certain foods I can and can't have.
I changed my diet last year. It was not due to my weight but because of pain, although I was very big. I wanted to put into practice all the information I had gathered re foods linked to pain. I was taking a considerable amount of pain medications, about 150 tablets per week which is scary to think of.
I had not exercised for 5 years, because of pain which made my weight worse, I ate terribly, I was unhappy, my marriage was abusive, I ate more, got more pain....it was a cycle.
The first day getting back on my cross trainer nearly killed me. I did 2 minutes. That was my goal and I did it. Within a week of no painkillers apart from co-codamol, my new diet and exercise, I was on it like a car bonnet for 30 mins every day. After 1 month it was an hour every day.
I lost 7 stone within months and felt unreal. I fell off the wagon again, something happened within a relationship I was in that turned my world upside down. So now 5 months later I have regained about 1 stone and with Christmas my diet has been terrible. I am chewing painkillers like sweets and its time to have a change.
I am going shopping tomorrow to stock up on the things I need so officially starting on Tuesday. As I said, this isn't all about my weight. I need to lose approx 4 stone to be considered healthy but its about pain and how I can control it.
My diet is mainly raw fruit and veg and a large cooked meal in the evenings with a small amount of meat. If I can't pick it or kill it then I won't really eat it.
I can't flippin wait!