lippy66
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL and I hope that everyone reaches goal in 2009.
I am starting this diary to track my own progress in reducing weight and in finding a way to stabilise at a weight which is healthy for my height. Above all I want to put an end to the yo-yo dieting which has been a feature of my life and consumed far too much of my time since my late teens.
In the past I have been a very "successful" dieter and remained slim throughout my twenties, thirties and forties using rigid control of my food intake. It was only when I hit my fifties that I began to find it difficult. However I continued the same old yo-yo pattern. My weight was never stable - it was always going up or coming down - and the average weight crept up by 2-3 stone. My hour glass shape changed to the dreaded large round apple.
Since 27th November, exactly 4 weeks before Christmas, I have been following Weight Watchers. I reckoned if I lost a few pounds beforehand it would cancel out any excess gained over the festive season. I lost 2lb in the first few days and was happy with that. Then fate decided to take a hand and I was hit really hard with a winter vomiting bug. Best not to go into details,suffice to say I have lost 9lbs and for the first time in years I have also lost my appetite and some of my sense of taste.
My partner who is working in the Middle East has been home for 4 weeks going back on 12th January. He hates slimming diets, low-fat food and small portions. He loves dining out and entertaining. So for the past few weeks I have been exposed to great company, lots of lovely meals and an abundance of food everywhere . Without any effort on my part I have kept to a modest intake of mostly healthy food. Part of me is delighted with the loss of 9lbs but another part wonders why it isn't more. This is in spite of the fact that I want to lose sensibly and I know this means slowly.
I won't be able to enrol formally in a Weight Watchers group until the week after next but will keep to a daily 20 points allowance in the meantime. I am expecting that the rate of loss will slow down but if I lose an average of approx. 1lb a week I should achieve my target around July/August. Time will tell.
I am starting this diary to track my own progress in reducing weight and in finding a way to stabilise at a weight which is healthy for my height. Above all I want to put an end to the yo-yo dieting which has been a feature of my life and consumed far too much of my time since my late teens.
In the past I have been a very "successful" dieter and remained slim throughout my twenties, thirties and forties using rigid control of my food intake. It was only when I hit my fifties that I began to find it difficult. However I continued the same old yo-yo pattern. My weight was never stable - it was always going up or coming down - and the average weight crept up by 2-3 stone. My hour glass shape changed to the dreaded large round apple.
Since 27th November, exactly 4 weeks before Christmas, I have been following Weight Watchers. I reckoned if I lost a few pounds beforehand it would cancel out any excess gained over the festive season. I lost 2lb in the first few days and was happy with that. Then fate decided to take a hand and I was hit really hard with a winter vomiting bug. Best not to go into details,suffice to say I have lost 9lbs and for the first time in years I have also lost my appetite and some of my sense of taste.
My partner who is working in the Middle East has been home for 4 weeks going back on 12th January. He hates slimming diets, low-fat food and small portions. He loves dining out and entertaining. So for the past few weeks I have been exposed to great company, lots of lovely meals and an abundance of food everywhere . Without any effort on my part I have kept to a modest intake of mostly healthy food. Part of me is delighted with the loss of 9lbs but another part wonders why it isn't more. This is in spite of the fact that I want to lose sensibly and I know this means slowly.
I won't be able to enrol formally in a Weight Watchers group until the week after next but will keep to a daily 20 points allowance in the meantime. I am expecting that the rate of loss will slow down but if I lose an average of approx. 1lb a week I should achieve my target around July/August. Time will tell.
It seems unfair when I think of how good I been when everyone around me has tucked into loads of delicious food and drink. It doesn't bode well for when my appetite returns.
