Excellent thread Davy!
In 2ooo I lost 4 and a half stone and intoduced exercise into my life and was relatively good in the week and had treats at weekend.
Then in 2007 new baby, plus sudden death of mum plus left responsible for dad with at this time undiasnosed dementia made no time for gym, and back to emotional eating hence huge gain.
Discovered Cambridge and lost almost 5st 25th Aug until mid Dec 2009, came off for xmas, lost the xmas gain then felt that witha BMI of 28 there was not a great race, so started having booze at weekneds, then less packs at weekend, then most weekends off plan for social reasons(Mad May until Sept). Ok I thought,have regained 3 stone, start again for September.....few days into diet the dad situation esculated and huge blip in my marriage( mainly due to my low self-esteem brought on by weight gain).
Get marriage very quickly back on track, but still bit nervy whilst dad hospitalised to what turned out to be a huge ordeal rather than relief for me....so back to comfort eating and the beloved wine.
Have some excellent cbt counselling, realise my husband is actually the same (and much improved) man I fell in love with, realise the more I eat to take my mind off my dad's vile situation I am robbing myself of self-respect and my gorgeous boy of a healthy mum.
So with my head in a much better place again, here I am, and my dream is to become a regular exerciser once again, who limits treats to special occassions and weekends.
To goal and beyond!