Spanglymum
Gold Member
Hello!
This feels like the start of an overwhelmingly long journey - one I've been on before, which makes it doubly daunting. I went to my first SW meeting last night, and weighed in. Ugh. It was worse than I feared. But still, I have faced reality and now I can start to take control.
I think my biggest problem has been that when I lost weight on Lighter Life I never got to do the full maintenance programme. My consultant at the time made me do a quick four-week one, and I ended up only able to manage my weight by being very very strict about carbs. I was fine (with a few wobbles) for quite some time, but ended up bingeing (!) on carbs, and getting very fat again very quickly.
This time round I'm taking the SW route because, although it's slow and steady (I hope), which could be disheartening, I am determined to learn some new behaviours and habits around food. Permanent habits.
We shall see. For now, I'm here and I'm so pleased Minimins is back!
This feels like the start of an overwhelmingly long journey - one I've been on before, which makes it doubly daunting. I went to my first SW meeting last night, and weighed in. Ugh. It was worse than I feared. But still, I have faced reality and now I can start to take control.
I think my biggest problem has been that when I lost weight on Lighter Life I never got to do the full maintenance programme. My consultant at the time made me do a quick four-week one, and I ended up only able to manage my weight by being very very strict about carbs. I was fine (with a few wobbles) for quite some time, but ended up bingeing (!) on carbs, and getting very fat again very quickly.
This time round I'm taking the SW route because, although it's slow and steady (I hope), which could be disheartening, I am determined to learn some new behaviours and habits around food. Permanent habits.
We shall see. For now, I'm here and I'm so pleased Minimins is back!