RedRevolver
Full Member
Hello there.
I'm new to the forums :wavey:, having found it in my search for information about VLCDs (mainly the popular four).
I've been overweight for most of my life; I'm 19 now. I'm not sure how much I weigh, but I imagine it's around 240/250lbs (I think the last time I was medically weighed, I weighed in somewhere around 114kg and that was a few years back). So I'm not familiar with being slim. But being overweight has set me back a lot in my life, mainly because I've always obsessed about it. Unfortunately, my family are all quite overweight too, and have encouraged comfort eating habits in me; my mum's way of rectifying my dislike of school (which I avoided because I had panic attacks each morning, because I was being bullied, because I was fat...) with chocolate at the end of each school day, and an edible 'treat' at the weekend. I've completely screwed up my first year at university (I had to push my exams back to next August, and am at such a low point in my mood that I'm thinking of either resitting the year or not bothering going back) because of how low my mood is, and it is about my weight and figure. It's not even just vanity anymore; I hate how slow I am, and how unfit I am because of it.
Anyway, this has led me to consider a VLCD because I'm at such a low ebb. I'm pretty sure I can do the diet - I was forced into not being able to eat much over the last few months at university because I ran out of money (ironically, I'd used it all up on alcohol and fast food; I didn't cook the entire year...) so was rationing, going a few days without food. I know that's not healthy, BUT the fact that I know it's my money, and having control over what I buy and when without having a family or living with my family to put me off - i.e. I've experienced life consuming very little so I'm not sure it will be as bad, plus dieting before for me has always made me paranoid I'm not getting enough vitamins or whatever, that I'm starving myself of nutrients...the whole point of these schemes is that you're NOT starving yourself, just reducing the amount of calories you're digesting, correct? (Whoosh - sorry for that massively run on statement!)
What I am worried about is this: if I return to university, I need to do something about my concentration levels, which are pretty poor already (I'm not stupid - I used to find it quite easy to read, and when I read things I could comprehend it pretty much straight off, and not need to go back over it. Now, I can't finish a paragraph (hence why uni's been a bit of a fail...))? I'd be starting on my return pretty much, and if I go back as a second year then I'll have exams again in December/January. It's got to the point where I want this weight loss more than a degree, but failure at anything at the moment is likely to set me really far back in terms of depression...
Thoughts? (+ I hope that made sense...)
Thanks,
Vicky x
I'm new to the forums :wavey:, having found it in my search for information about VLCDs (mainly the popular four).
I've been overweight for most of my life; I'm 19 now. I'm not sure how much I weigh, but I imagine it's around 240/250lbs (I think the last time I was medically weighed, I weighed in somewhere around 114kg and that was a few years back). So I'm not familiar with being slim. But being overweight has set me back a lot in my life, mainly because I've always obsessed about it. Unfortunately, my family are all quite overweight too, and have encouraged comfort eating habits in me; my mum's way of rectifying my dislike of school (which I avoided because I had panic attacks each morning, because I was being bullied, because I was fat...) with chocolate at the end of each school day, and an edible 'treat' at the weekend. I've completely screwed up my first year at university (I had to push my exams back to next August, and am at such a low point in my mood that I'm thinking of either resitting the year or not bothering going back) because of how low my mood is, and it is about my weight and figure. It's not even just vanity anymore; I hate how slow I am, and how unfit I am because of it.
Anyway, this has led me to consider a VLCD because I'm at such a low ebb. I'm pretty sure I can do the diet - I was forced into not being able to eat much over the last few months at university because I ran out of money (ironically, I'd used it all up on alcohol and fast food; I didn't cook the entire year...) so was rationing, going a few days without food. I know that's not healthy, BUT the fact that I know it's my money, and having control over what I buy and when without having a family or living with my family to put me off - i.e. I've experienced life consuming very little so I'm not sure it will be as bad, plus dieting before for me has always made me paranoid I'm not getting enough vitamins or whatever, that I'm starving myself of nutrients...the whole point of these schemes is that you're NOT starving yourself, just reducing the amount of calories you're digesting, correct? (Whoosh - sorry for that massively run on statement!)
What I am worried about is this: if I return to university, I need to do something about my concentration levels, which are pretty poor already (I'm not stupid - I used to find it quite easy to read, and when I read things I could comprehend it pretty much straight off, and not need to go back over it. Now, I can't finish a paragraph (hence why uni's been a bit of a fail...))? I'd be starting on my return pretty much, and if I go back as a second year then I'll have exams again in December/January. It's got to the point where I want this weight loss more than a degree, but failure at anything at the moment is likely to set me really far back in terms of depression...
Thoughts? (+ I hope that made sense...)
Thanks,
Vicky x
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