I'll change that to Why did I start the diet, cos I wasn't here when I started it. In fact minimins wasn't here either
I started it because I couldn't cope with living in my body any longer. I think when you are younger, it's about clothes and peer pressure. When you are older, it's more about backache, tired feet, in fact tired living. It was a struggle to get through the day.
Because I had done everything else many times. I had spent a lifetime of dieting. I was fed up with plateauing and weight coming off so slowly. I was ready for a change. I wanted another chance to maintain. A rebirth if you like. I wanted to be 'normal'. I didn't want to do a diet, but I did want to get to a normal weight so I could try to get it right. It had to be CD because I knew that I would lose confidence with yet another slow loss diet.
How
did I find it? Brilliant! It does what it says on the packet. No more plateaus, one stone a month, everything I needed to keep me healthy. A dream come true really. The rest was up to me.
It wasn't a perfect journey. Sometimes I felt like it was one step back and two forward, but I knew that it something had to change. I couldn't go on like I was, and the results proved that being slimmer was going to be possible.
You know Leah. Probably sound like a Mother here but I'll use the old cliche 'if only I knew then what I know now'
I've wasted so many years chasing the pounds...doing yet another diet....losing the plot. What a twit I was. If only...if only...I had sorted it when I was younger and had kept it off then.
I love being slimmer and I feel sad for those people who have chosen to take the path I took for 35-40 years. Life is too precious and you know how wonderful our bodies are. Wonder why we mistreat them so.