Hi Everyone 
I've been a lurker here for a long time but decided to finally register and utilise this amazing website properly.
My weight loss journey, or rather my struggle with my weight has registered on my radar for as long as I can remember.
For me, it's simple. I love to eat. I love food! I eat to socialise, to fight boredom and for emotional reasons. I have no concept of portion size and whilst I know what is deemed "healthy" I've selectively chosen to ignore this as I don't find it gives me as much comfort as a good old plate of carbohydrate.
So at 23 - at the beginning of this year, my knees were aching, my whole body suffered with the additional pounds, I decided to do a VLCD and as such in 12 weeks I lost 2.5 stone. I dropped from 13 stone 3 down to around 10 stone 10. As with all VLCD you put on a few pounds as your body repacks your glycogen stores and then I pretty much managed to maintain my 11 stone (goodness knows how as my diet didn't change) until about 2 months ago.
2 months ago; I changed my pill. Duh duh duh! Big mistake; half a stone later I'm tearing my hair out because in my mind, I fought so hard to lose all that weight, got so much closer to my target weight (10 stone) that I'm beating myself up everyday.
My issue is that I haven't learnt anything from that diet. I lose the pounds for sure. I stuck to plan. But it didn't teach me anything about what is good for my body and how I can truly maintain that weight.
So here I am. I've done SW before and lost weight and as such I know its a good plan for me to follow as well as having a fantastic amount of support on this forum!
Financially I can't afford to go to class but I've got all the info from my previous classes and I'm raring to get started on my journey!
I've actively chosen to do this over the christmas period as I feel like if I can avoid all the Selection boxes and chocolates galore then I've really cracked it!
Fingers crossed! I'm starting tomorrow
I've been a lurker here for a long time but decided to finally register and utilise this amazing website properly.
My weight loss journey, or rather my struggle with my weight has registered on my radar for as long as I can remember.
For me, it's simple. I love to eat. I love food! I eat to socialise, to fight boredom and for emotional reasons. I have no concept of portion size and whilst I know what is deemed "healthy" I've selectively chosen to ignore this as I don't find it gives me as much comfort as a good old plate of carbohydrate.
So at 23 - at the beginning of this year, my knees were aching, my whole body suffered with the additional pounds, I decided to do a VLCD and as such in 12 weeks I lost 2.5 stone. I dropped from 13 stone 3 down to around 10 stone 10. As with all VLCD you put on a few pounds as your body repacks your glycogen stores and then I pretty much managed to maintain my 11 stone (goodness knows how as my diet didn't change) until about 2 months ago.
2 months ago; I changed my pill. Duh duh duh! Big mistake; half a stone later I'm tearing my hair out because in my mind, I fought so hard to lose all that weight, got so much closer to my target weight (10 stone) that I'm beating myself up everyday.
My issue is that I haven't learnt anything from that diet. I lose the pounds for sure. I stuck to plan. But it didn't teach me anything about what is good for my body and how I can truly maintain that weight.
So here I am. I've done SW before and lost weight and as such I know its a good plan for me to follow as well as having a fantastic amount of support on this forum!
Financially I can't afford to go to class but I've got all the info from my previous classes and I'm raring to get started on my journey!
I've actively chosen to do this over the christmas period as I feel like if I can avoid all the Selection boxes and chocolates galore then I've really cracked it!
Fingers crossed! I'm starting tomorrow
