Hiya my name is Emma, I am a 24 year old girl and I have pretty much been struggling with my weight since I left school.
When I left school I was a reasonable weight of 9.3 stone. I have always eaten wayyy over what would be a considered a normal calorie count because I tend to comfort eat. I eat massive portions and I know it. When I was a school kid I had to walk 4-5miles everyday, which helped to keep the over-eating at bay and because I was so self conscious at school I never ate there- which curbed my habits to an extent.
I need to loose around 30lb. I'm getting bigger and bigger and its making me very miserable tbh. I have tried dieting alone but because I eat for emotional reasons I tend to fail so I feel I need support from other people. Often I feel its just impossible for me to loose weight. I've now done some research and realised that too loose just one lb of fat I should I need to create a calorie deficit of 3500. I think its perversly made me feel a bit better because I now realise that expecting to drop 5lb in a week was never realistic and that actually I can loose weight (albeit slowly) (damn dieting suppliment campaigns)
I am the kind of girl who needs to see results in order to be encouraged so I am thinking I will give myself time to loose weight before weighing myself again. Good or bad idea anyone? Bear in mind I have extremly poor willpower.. like terrible.
I am aiming to eat no more than 1300 calories per day. Using a calorie calculator I have worked out that I burn around 1826 calories per day so I can't really go any higher than that if I wish to loose any kind of realistic weight.
I don't wish to just stick to low carb but rather just moniter (calorie count) what I do eat. I am a vegetarian and thats not going to change (been one for 18 years) so high protein/low carb diets are not for me.
anyone who has been in a similar situation and lost weight feel free to give me some encouragement. I think sometimes its harder to loose the weight you need to loose if you are only a bit overweight.
When I left school I was a reasonable weight of 9.3 stone. I have always eaten wayyy over what would be a considered a normal calorie count because I tend to comfort eat. I eat massive portions and I know it. When I was a school kid I had to walk 4-5miles everyday, which helped to keep the over-eating at bay and because I was so self conscious at school I never ate there- which curbed my habits to an extent.
I need to loose around 30lb. I'm getting bigger and bigger and its making me very miserable tbh. I have tried dieting alone but because I eat for emotional reasons I tend to fail so I feel I need support from other people. Often I feel its just impossible for me to loose weight. I've now done some research and realised that too loose just one lb of fat I should I need to create a calorie deficit of 3500. I think its perversly made me feel a bit better because I now realise that expecting to drop 5lb in a week was never realistic and that actually I can loose weight (albeit slowly) (damn dieting suppliment campaigns)
I am the kind of girl who needs to see results in order to be encouraged so I am thinking I will give myself time to loose weight before weighing myself again. Good or bad idea anyone? Bear in mind I have extremly poor willpower.. like terrible.
I am aiming to eat no more than 1300 calories per day. Using a calorie calculator I have worked out that I burn around 1826 calories per day so I can't really go any higher than that if I wish to loose any kind of realistic weight.
I don't wish to just stick to low carb but rather just moniter (calorie count) what I do eat. I am a vegetarian and thats not going to change (been one for 18 years) so high protein/low carb diets are not for me.
anyone who has been in a similar situation and lost weight feel free to give me some encouragement. I think sometimes its harder to loose the weight you need to loose if you are only a bit overweight.
