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On a mission !
Wow , not sure how to start this one!
I'm Nina 42 (nearly 43 - yikes) I live in Dorset with my partner of 17 years and our two sons aged 10 & 11. Both our boys are autistic so life is rarely straightforward.
I did Atkins a few years ago near to my heaviest weight and lost about 5 stone with very little proper effort I'm ashamed to say.
I would follow the plan (not carb counting) all weekdays and then go nuts and force feed myself carbs and sugar on weekends...I think I thought I had to in order to stick to the diet in the week....what a doofus!
Anyway, I have always had very bad issues with food, emotional eating and compulsive eating and as you can imagine, with me foolishly reactivating my carb addiction on a weekly basis, the actual on plan days began to shrink from 5, to 3 ..to nothing!
Inevitably I put it all back on, stressed daily (especially before the kids were diagnosed) got to a top weight of just under 26 stone (I'm 5'2") had a breakdown, ended up taking the kids out of mainstream school and teaching them at home for a year and being a recluse too scared to answer the phone, let alone leave the house.
We moved into the country a couple years or so ago (2007), the kids got places in a really great special school and things started to improve but I could not get any further with my weight.
I had a private gastric band in July 2008 and mainly through dumb luck so far, I have got some weight off.
I spent most of the first year lost and wondering if I had had anything done as my restriction was very slow to kick in.
Ate all the wrong things and still have big periods of doing that!
I have been hovvering around the same weight for nearly a year and a half despite my restriction enabling me to eat what most people would consider normal portions...due to my compulsive eating , the band has been damage limitation , stopping me from massive bingeing and probably saved my life..but not really enough for me to make further progress. I still have had to calorie count etc.
I thought I would revisit Atkins because I am scared I will not shift the remaining 6 or 7 stones...no idea how much I can get rid of due to loose skin etc but I have to try!
Hopefully I can learn from my previous mistakes this time!
I am a moderator on the WLSurgery.com site and have to say, I have huge admiration for all of you that can do this under your own steam. I wish I had been able to make a dent in mine without surgery but at the time of my op I was desparate and unable to get moving.
There really are no shortcuts! Something I have learnt the hard way xxxxx
I'm Nina 42 (nearly 43 - yikes) I live in Dorset with my partner of 17 years and our two sons aged 10 & 11. Both our boys are autistic so life is rarely straightforward.
I did Atkins a few years ago near to my heaviest weight and lost about 5 stone with very little proper effort I'm ashamed to say.
I would follow the plan (not carb counting) all weekdays and then go nuts and force feed myself carbs and sugar on weekends...I think I thought I had to in order to stick to the diet in the week....what a doofus!
Anyway, I have always had very bad issues with food, emotional eating and compulsive eating and as you can imagine, with me foolishly reactivating my carb addiction on a weekly basis, the actual on plan days began to shrink from 5, to 3 ..to nothing!
Inevitably I put it all back on, stressed daily (especially before the kids were diagnosed) got to a top weight of just under 26 stone (I'm 5'2") had a breakdown, ended up taking the kids out of mainstream school and teaching them at home for a year and being a recluse too scared to answer the phone, let alone leave the house.
We moved into the country a couple years or so ago (2007), the kids got places in a really great special school and things started to improve but I could not get any further with my weight.
I had a private gastric band in July 2008 and mainly through dumb luck so far, I have got some weight off.
I spent most of the first year lost and wondering if I had had anything done as my restriction was very slow to kick in.
Ate all the wrong things and still have big periods of doing that!
I have been hovvering around the same weight for nearly a year and a half despite my restriction enabling me to eat what most people would consider normal portions...due to my compulsive eating , the band has been damage limitation , stopping me from massive bingeing and probably saved my life..but not really enough for me to make further progress. I still have had to calorie count etc.
I thought I would revisit Atkins because I am scared I will not shift the remaining 6 or 7 stones...no idea how much I can get rid of due to loose skin etc but I have to try!
Hopefully I can learn from my previous mistakes this time!
I am a moderator on the WLSurgery.com site and have to say, I have huge admiration for all of you that can do this under your own steam. I wish I had been able to make a dent in mine without surgery but at the time of my op I was desparate and unable to get moving.
There really are no shortcuts! Something I have learnt the hard way xxxxx
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