Over the past 7 days, I've been wondering why, now, have I finally been able to get myself back onto SS after such a long, long time of struggling with it. When I say a long time I mean years
Let me enlighten you.... I first lost 7 stones on SS in 2005 and became a counsellor at the beginning of 2006. I never got down to my 'ideal' weight but I was happy with a BMI of 27.... it was the slimmest I've been in more than a decade!
Any way things were going well and then.. I went on a trip to Florida. Disaster struck, a 21lb gain in 14 days:copon: (Sound familiar to anyone??? From there I went on to regain every single lb I'd lost and by March 2007 I was right back where I started!
My weight gain was sporadic, bought on by 2 or sometimes 3 days of SS followed by 2 or 3 weeks of fairly constant bingeing then a period of 'sensible eating' and a couple of trips to WW to try and regain a bit of control... NOTHING was getting me back 'in the zone' (again, does this sound familiar???) :break_diet:
During all of the time I was still counselling, and successfully getting my clients to target, with a couple even making it to the National press....
The turning point came when a new client arrived at my home one Saturday morning in March..., I texted her a few times during her first week, as was my usual practice but only got one word responses.... she didn't come the next week. So, I telephoned her to see why she hadn't turned up, her words will be forever etched on my heart they really cut that deep.....
"I really can't take advice from anyone who so obviously cannot keep her own greed under control"
I really don't know what happened to that woman, but those were the last words she said to me....
I decided that I couldn't keep on gaining, but equally, I really couldn't face SS so I proceeded to lose 3.5stones on the 1200 calorie plan. I read Gillian Riley's book 'eating less' and that helped me to get control of my food intake. It took me 19 months to manage this. I wasn't perfect by any means hence the time limit... but everytime I was about the throw in the towel, that comment kept creeping into my mind.
Anyway, my weightloss plateau'd mid 2008 and I found that I didn't much mind, being this size, it wasn't awful and I found that I actually liked myself.
We went travelling last September and I was very ill on our journey with a dental absess... I lost another stone and a half and when we got home, it just stayed off...
Then last month OH announced that he was going abroad to work on a project, I sat here alone and it got me to wondering.... I would really really like to get back into those smaller size clothes that have been hiding under my bed for the last couple of years
So now I'm working TOWARDS being slim and TOWARDS surprising my hubby on his return!.... When I did it the first time. All of my motivation was getting AWAY from what I'd become... it was enough the first time, but failed to motivate me when I tried to gain control again.
What I think I'm trying to say is that you need something to look FORWARD TO. Particularly if it's a restart after a successful weightloss with SS.
Let me enlighten you.... I first lost 7 stones on SS in 2005 and became a counsellor at the beginning of 2006. I never got down to my 'ideal' weight but I was happy with a BMI of 27.... it was the slimmest I've been in more than a decade!
Any way things were going well and then.. I went on a trip to Florida. Disaster struck, a 21lb gain in 14 days:copon: (Sound familiar to anyone??? From there I went on to regain every single lb I'd lost and by March 2007 I was right back where I started!
My weight gain was sporadic, bought on by 2 or sometimes 3 days of SS followed by 2 or 3 weeks of fairly constant bingeing then a period of 'sensible eating' and a couple of trips to WW to try and regain a bit of control... NOTHING was getting me back 'in the zone' (again, does this sound familiar???) :break_diet:
During all of the time I was still counselling, and successfully getting my clients to target, with a couple even making it to the National press....
The turning point came when a new client arrived at my home one Saturday morning in March..., I texted her a few times during her first week, as was my usual practice but only got one word responses.... she didn't come the next week. So, I telephoned her to see why she hadn't turned up, her words will be forever etched on my heart they really cut that deep.....
"I really can't take advice from anyone who so obviously cannot keep her own greed under control"
I really don't know what happened to that woman, but those were the last words she said to me....
I decided that I couldn't keep on gaining, but equally, I really couldn't face SS so I proceeded to lose 3.5stones on the 1200 calorie plan. I read Gillian Riley's book 'eating less' and that helped me to get control of my food intake. It took me 19 months to manage this. I wasn't perfect by any means hence the time limit... but everytime I was about the throw in the towel, that comment kept creeping into my mind.
Anyway, my weightloss plateau'd mid 2008 and I found that I didn't much mind, being this size, it wasn't awful and I found that I actually liked myself.
We went travelling last September and I was very ill on our journey with a dental absess... I lost another stone and a half and when we got home, it just stayed off...
Then last month OH announced that he was going abroad to work on a project, I sat here alone and it got me to wondering.... I would really really like to get back into those smaller size clothes that have been hiding under my bed for the last couple of years
So now I'm working TOWARDS being slim and TOWARDS surprising my hubby on his return!.... When I did it the first time. All of my motivation was getting AWAY from what I'd become... it was enough the first time, but failed to motivate me when I tried to gain control again.
What I think I'm trying to say is that you need something to look FORWARD TO. Particularly if it's a restart after a successful weightloss with SS.
