meghan1409
Full Member
Hi everyone,
I'm very new here, and in my browsings tonight have been so impressed with the level of support, encouragement and advice people are offering here! What a great forum for such an insular diet!
Just a brief explanation of me... I'm in week 12 of Foundation, I've lost just over 4st now, and I'm planning to carry on development for about 5 weeks after Foundation. This should bring my weight loss to around 6st2lbs if I carry on losing as I have been! I'm 21, at university in Durham and my dramatic weight gain over the last 2 years has been due mainly to treatment for a blood disorder (steroids).
So, I'm just about done with Foundation, and in the grand scheme of things won't be on abstinence much longer... and I just don't know if Management is for me.
Before my lovely stint with steroids, I was a pretty healthy eater. Maintained a stable healthy weight, no emotional problems with food. When I got ill, I went on a sort of downward spiral emotionally and food got sucked into it (steroids make you retain water, they make you depressed and they make you RAVENOUS 24/7 - i gained 3st in about 2 months). Part of me is worried that the brief period where I was out of control emotionally and food played a part in that will affect my relationship with food after LL.
The larger part of me knows, really truly KNOWS deep down, that my emotional connection with food has been cut through abstinence... that what I crave now is 90% healthy food. For the majority of my life I've eaten small portions and not over indulged to the excess, and just generally been healthy and fit. And I feel I'll be able to go back into this without a problem.
So my question after this long winded diatribe is: has anyone here finsihed Foundation/Development without doing Management? Is anyone doing Management now? What are people's thoughts on that stage of the programme?
I'd love any advice or thoughts you all may have!
Meghan xx
I'm very new here, and in my browsings tonight have been so impressed with the level of support, encouragement and advice people are offering here! What a great forum for such an insular diet!
Just a brief explanation of me... I'm in week 12 of Foundation, I've lost just over 4st now, and I'm planning to carry on development for about 5 weeks after Foundation. This should bring my weight loss to around 6st2lbs if I carry on losing as I have been! I'm 21, at university in Durham and my dramatic weight gain over the last 2 years has been due mainly to treatment for a blood disorder (steroids).
So, I'm just about done with Foundation, and in the grand scheme of things won't be on abstinence much longer... and I just don't know if Management is for me.
Before my lovely stint with steroids, I was a pretty healthy eater. Maintained a stable healthy weight, no emotional problems with food. When I got ill, I went on a sort of downward spiral emotionally and food got sucked into it (steroids make you retain water, they make you depressed and they make you RAVENOUS 24/7 - i gained 3st in about 2 months). Part of me is worried that the brief period where I was out of control emotionally and food played a part in that will affect my relationship with food after LL.
The larger part of me knows, really truly KNOWS deep down, that my emotional connection with food has been cut through abstinence... that what I crave now is 90% healthy food. For the majority of my life I've eaten small portions and not over indulged to the excess, and just generally been healthy and fit. And I feel I'll be able to go back into this without a problem.
So my question after this long winded diatribe is: has anyone here finsihed Foundation/Development without doing Management? Is anyone doing Management now? What are people's thoughts on that stage of the programme?
I'd love any advice or thoughts you all may have!
Meghan xx