CountryBumpkin
Silver Member
Hello, new friends!
I'm a Cambridge Dieter who began at 22 stone 7 (23 stone 4 really, but I dropped some weight in the low-carbing stage pre-diet) who now, two months later, is about 18 and a half stone. I'm looking to get down to about 9 and a half stone but, as I've never been thin, it's hard to tell what kind of weight is going to work for me and be sustainable. I'm aiming for under 10 because I used to be a keen horse rider, and I'm desperate to be light enough to get back to riding, so I'll try to shrink down and make a proper assessment when I'm in the healthy BMI range. I've been on the Cambridge forum for about a week but it's nice to be in the company of people who have as much to lose as I do.
I've "only" lost 4 stone so far but I'll be going away at the end of August and already I'm excited about being more comfortable in my aeroplane seat than I was for my last flight in December. I carry my weight quite well (obviously I'm still a heffalump because of my sheer mass but it's quite evenly distributed), so I was pleasantly shocked to find I didn't need a seat belt extender last year; I still hope to lose a couple more stones before I go this year I won't even waste my time worrying about it being a possibility!
This is the lowest weight I've been in about four years. I hovered around 16 stone in 2006 (which, at the time, was the heaviest I'd been) but between then and last year I managed to shoot up to the 23. I had money worries, a negative relationship, the usual things that make you turn to food. The money concerns are still present but the relationship has gone. However, the trigger for the diet was that I just got to the point where I was sick of having a negative relationship with myself. It goes much deeper than my body but my body is a good enough place to start. I have bullied myself in the worst way for the past six years and my self-esteem is non-existent. I'm hoping a healthier body will go a long way to kickstarting positive feelings about who and what I am. It's one less thing for me to berate myself for, at any rate!
I'm glad to finally be at the point where I only need lose half my body weight instead of two thirds. That feels really encouraging. In the next few weeks I'll go down to being seventeen stone something and that is going to blow my mind. I never thought it was possible. It makes me feel excited about all the other things that might happen in my life which, to this point, I always assumed were impossible.
Anyway, I'm not really sure why I'm rambling on. I just really wanted to say hello and introduce myself, because I'll be hanging around for a while.
I'm a Cambridge Dieter who began at 22 stone 7 (23 stone 4 really, but I dropped some weight in the low-carbing stage pre-diet) who now, two months later, is about 18 and a half stone. I'm looking to get down to about 9 and a half stone but, as I've never been thin, it's hard to tell what kind of weight is going to work for me and be sustainable. I'm aiming for under 10 because I used to be a keen horse rider, and I'm desperate to be light enough to get back to riding, so I'll try to shrink down and make a proper assessment when I'm in the healthy BMI range. I've been on the Cambridge forum for about a week but it's nice to be in the company of people who have as much to lose as I do.
I've "only" lost 4 stone so far but I'll be going away at the end of August and already I'm excited about being more comfortable in my aeroplane seat than I was for my last flight in December. I carry my weight quite well (obviously I'm still a heffalump because of my sheer mass but it's quite evenly distributed), so I was pleasantly shocked to find I didn't need a seat belt extender last year; I still hope to lose a couple more stones before I go this year I won't even waste my time worrying about it being a possibility!
This is the lowest weight I've been in about four years. I hovered around 16 stone in 2006 (which, at the time, was the heaviest I'd been) but between then and last year I managed to shoot up to the 23. I had money worries, a negative relationship, the usual things that make you turn to food.
The money concerns are still present but the relationship has gone. However, the trigger for the diet was that I just got to the point where I was sick of having a negative relationship with myself. It goes much deeper than my body but my body is a good enough place to start. I have bullied myself in the worst way for the past six years and my self-esteem is non-existent. I'm hoping a healthier body will go a long way to kickstarting positive feelings about who and what I am. It's one less thing for me to berate myself for, at any rate! I'm glad to finally be at the point where I only need lose half my body weight instead of two thirds. That feels really encouraging. In the next few weeks I'll go down to being seventeen stone something and that is going to blow my mind. I never thought it was possible. It makes me feel excited about all the other things that might happen in my life which, to this point, I always assumed were impossible.
Anyway, I'm not really sure why I'm rambling on. I just really wanted to say hello and introduce myself, because I'll be hanging around for a while.
