Illumination
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I was my own worst enemy, I blamed everything and everyone else for my weight gain, from my genetics to bad advice from weight loss experts.
Until I realised it was all my fault and took responsibility for my weight gain.
Nobody forced me to eat bad foods or not get moving, it was not my parents fault, when I moved out I was 60 kgs and 18 months later I was 80 kgs when it reached the 2 year mark I got to my heaviest weight of 90kgs and it was all my fault and I stayed that way for years convincing myself that I was happy, but I wasn’t.
It has now taken the last 2 years for me to get from 90kgs to my current weight of 78 kgs I’m doing it slowly but looking forward to getting down to 60 kgs again in the near future. What I’m most happy about is my belly measurements around my belly button and waist measurement, it has gone from 103 cm to 84 cm and still going.
Good food and getting moving was important but the mindset and admitting i was at fault and I and the only one that could do something. It was more important to me than starting and sticking to a plan, if you don’t have the right mindset may as well not bother.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? Or revelation thinking back about what made them gain weight and what they are now doing to correct it?
Until I realised it was all my fault and took responsibility for my weight gain.
Nobody forced me to eat bad foods or not get moving, it was not my parents fault, when I moved out I was 60 kgs and 18 months later I was 80 kgs when it reached the 2 year mark I got to my heaviest weight of 90kgs and it was all my fault and I stayed that way for years convincing myself that I was happy, but I wasn’t.
It has now taken the last 2 years for me to get from 90kgs to my current weight of 78 kgs I’m doing it slowly but looking forward to getting down to 60 kgs again in the near future. What I’m most happy about is my belly measurements around my belly button and waist measurement, it has gone from 103 cm to 84 cm and still going.
Good food and getting moving was important but the mindset and admitting i was at fault and I and the only one that could do something. It was more important to me than starting and sticking to a plan, if you don’t have the right mindset may as well not bother.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? Or revelation thinking back about what made them gain weight and what they are now doing to correct it?
) and there's so much stuff that gets thrown out if staff and volunteers don't take it - so my wobbles come from taking cr&p home that I'd never normally buy! I just find it so difficult not to take it - and that's the binge thing - plus I hate seeing food wasted. I was giving it all to my neighbour but she and her OH are now on a diet!
one is never enough I sware it is like Tim tams or Pringle’s you eat one and got to eat them all. 
I’m currently on the Mediterranean diet which is higher protein, lower saturated fats and higher unsaturated omega rich fats. I got a DNA test from the chemist to send off and was told it is the best diet for me in the long term that I will stick to because it easy to stick to cause the food is delicious with lots of veggies. This is my progress so far. 
so happy that it is moving forward instead of stalling cause that is so frustrating
