alyrose
Full Member
Hello all,
I'll tell you a little bit about my background. I've always been quite chubby since I was a child, I reached my heaviest at 12st 4lb when I was around 18 years old. I hated how I looked and I just met my boyfriend (who I've now been with for 2.5 years) and felt ashamed and embarassed about my size. I started taking Dianette for my acne soon after meeting him after my mum's friend recommended it and it worked wonders, but not only for my skin. I had no appetitie for about 6 months so lost a lot of weight. I ate much much less but also started to intake better, low fat and low calorie food by following WW books my mum had. The weight dropped off and I reached 10st 7lb! I'm very proud of my weight loss and managed to keep it off through WW also for about a year. I think my body adjusted to Dianette after those 6 months as I began to eat normal again. I'm still on it but hoping to change to Yasmin in a month or so as it's not got as many risks.
In my third year of University I was offered a year long placement in business and I snapped up this opportunity as it would be great for my career and I could live with my boyfriend as it was closer to his University. I moved away from home in July 2012 (Aberdeen to Preston!) and my eating habits have not been great. There's so many take outs here because it's such a student focused town, we have a corner shop literally on the other side of the pavement and I'm out the house 12 hours a day (4 hours commuting). I have breakfast at 7am and don't have dinner 'til 8pm so there's lots of snacking while at work! I can blame all these factors as much as I want but the main one is my self control and motivation. It's gone seriously downhill. I've gained 1 full stone while being here.
I move back home in 6 weeks after I finish my internship and I know that will help with weight loss but I want to lose some while I'm here so I don't have as far to go when I get back. And I don't want to waste these 6 weeks by gaining even more weight when I could be losing some! I was shocked by the 11st 7lbs that appeared on my scales this morning. Good riddance!
I'll tell you a little bit about my background. I've always been quite chubby since I was a child, I reached my heaviest at 12st 4lb when I was around 18 years old. I hated how I looked and I just met my boyfriend (who I've now been with for 2.5 years) and felt ashamed and embarassed about my size. I started taking Dianette for my acne soon after meeting him after my mum's friend recommended it and it worked wonders, but not only for my skin. I had no appetitie for about 6 months so lost a lot of weight. I ate much much less but also started to intake better, low fat and low calorie food by following WW books my mum had. The weight dropped off and I reached 10st 7lb! I'm very proud of my weight loss and managed to keep it off through WW also for about a year. I think my body adjusted to Dianette after those 6 months as I began to eat normal again. I'm still on it but hoping to change to Yasmin in a month or so as it's not got as many risks.
In my third year of University I was offered a year long placement in business and I snapped up this opportunity as it would be great for my career and I could live with my boyfriend as it was closer to his University. I moved away from home in July 2012 (Aberdeen to Preston!) and my eating habits have not been great. There's so many take outs here because it's such a student focused town, we have a corner shop literally on the other side of the pavement and I'm out the house 12 hours a day (4 hours commuting). I have breakfast at 7am and don't have dinner 'til 8pm so there's lots of snacking while at work! I can blame all these factors as much as I want but the main one is my self control and motivation. It's gone seriously downhill. I've gained 1 full stone while being here.
I move back home in 6 weeks after I finish my internship and I know that will help with weight loss but I want to lose some while I'm here so I don't have as far to go when I get back. And I don't want to waste these 6 weeks by gaining even more weight when I could be losing some! I was shocked by the 11st 7lbs that appeared on my scales this morning. Good riddance!