232kat
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As from my title, my goal is to lose a whopping 80 lbs! Since I got married 11 years ago I have steadily gained weight from 11 stone and have been around 15-16 stones for the past 8 years. I have tried all the diets with short term success, and using a VLCD in 2011 I got down to 12.10 stones by the summer only to go back up to 16 stones by Christmas. The same last year I got down to 13.7 stones by October and shockingly I was back up to 16.7 by Christmas. I began to follow the same pattern again this year and on Boxing Day I started a VLCD again and lost 21 lbs in 3 weeks only to gain 10 since Friday because when I fall off I am glutinous.
My husband says that if I'm not dieting I am eating like I'm starving, he can't believe how much I can eat without feeling full, and that is not something to be proud of. Last March I signed up for Slimming World, but I didn't last a month, as my head wasn't in the right place. I took the literal attitude to unlimited fruit and vegetables and ate pounds of fruit a day. Not only was it expensive it produced too much sugar in me and stopped me from losing any weight, along with the 4-5 Mullerlights every day.
Today I intend to join again and sign up for 12 weeks. Your probably thinking what will be different this time, well my attitude has changed. The adult part of me knows that unlimited groups of food does not mean continuous eating. I am going to have a max of three portions of fruit and 2 Mullerlights a day; I think I need to set those restrictions for my own good. A large bag of cherries followed by a large bag of grapes and 2 bananas, an apple and pear is not really in the spirit of the diet. Also my husband is going to do this with me as he could really do with losing a couple of stone. He is 50 today and we are both going to see family in Las Vegas in September and I want his daughter to see a much more happier and healthier Dad, who has lots of energy for his Granddaughter. I think a bit of healthy competition between us will be good.
Why Slimming World, because it seems like a sustainable lifetime plan that will be easy to keep up on holidays. I am always going on short camping trips and I am starting off this year with a week in a cottage in the Lake District. I usually see these times as off plan, and gain lbs whist away. With SW I think I can just continue on the plan and make good choices when eating out, as you can have a lot of foods from most menus. If I don't feel deprived I shouldn't feel the need to eat bars of chocolate, packets of crisps and biscuits, and I intend to report in this diary wherever I am. So I'm hoping the friends I meet on here will keep me on the straight and narrow.
I bit of extra information about me before I bore you all to death going on, is that I love exercise. I cycle to work (7 mile round trip 4 days a week), I do 3 x intensive walking for 30 minute sessions in the gym and I swim for 30 minutes 3 x a week. When I go away its usually to climb a mountain or trek for miles. With all this exercise I should be slimmer, so this should give you some idea of how much I eat to maintain a weight of 16 stone. I eat a lot and its got to stop! Therefore, today I will be starting my 80 lb journey to a healthier me with small goals along the way, the first being to join my local SW club.
Thank you for ready, Kat x
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My husband says that if I'm not dieting I am eating like I'm starving, he can't believe how much I can eat without feeling full, and that is not something to be proud of. Last March I signed up for Slimming World, but I didn't last a month, as my head wasn't in the right place. I took the literal attitude to unlimited fruit and vegetables and ate pounds of fruit a day. Not only was it expensive it produced too much sugar in me and stopped me from losing any weight, along with the 4-5 Mullerlights every day.
Today I intend to join again and sign up for 12 weeks. Your probably thinking what will be different this time, well my attitude has changed. The adult part of me knows that unlimited groups of food does not mean continuous eating. I am going to have a max of three portions of fruit and 2 Mullerlights a day; I think I need to set those restrictions for my own good. A large bag of cherries followed by a large bag of grapes and 2 bananas, an apple and pear is not really in the spirit of the diet. Also my husband is going to do this with me as he could really do with losing a couple of stone. He is 50 today and we are both going to see family in Las Vegas in September and I want his daughter to see a much more happier and healthier Dad, who has lots of energy for his Granddaughter. I think a bit of healthy competition between us will be good.
Why Slimming World, because it seems like a sustainable lifetime plan that will be easy to keep up on holidays. I am always going on short camping trips and I am starting off this year with a week in a cottage in the Lake District. I usually see these times as off plan, and gain lbs whist away. With SW I think I can just continue on the plan and make good choices when eating out, as you can have a lot of foods from most menus. If I don't feel deprived I shouldn't feel the need to eat bars of chocolate, packets of crisps and biscuits, and I intend to report in this diary wherever I am. So I'm hoping the friends I meet on here will keep me on the straight and narrow.
I bit of extra information about me before I bore you all to death going on, is that I love exercise. I cycle to work (7 mile round trip 4 days a week), I do 3 x intensive walking for 30 minute sessions in the gym and I swim for 30 minutes 3 x a week. When I go away its usually to climb a mountain or trek for miles. With all this exercise I should be slimmer, so this should give you some idea of how much I eat to maintain a weight of 16 stone. I eat a lot and its got to stop! Therefore, today I will be starting my 80 lb journey to a healthier me with small goals along the way, the first being to join my local SW club.
Thank you for ready, Kat x
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