Viking82
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Hi there! I wish I'd met y'all sooner :flirt2: This is a fun and welcoming place and I really, really look forward to spending more time here.
I've lost 2st so far by calorie counting since last December (hooray!) but I'm finding it slow going shifting those last 28lbs... I really need to hold myself accountable to someone else anda keep a record of my progress.
Little bit of background, I was a fat child (weren't most of us...) and a fat, depressed teen. I then lost about 4 or 5 stone aged 19 by crash dieting. I looked pretty amazing, but was so unhealthy and (surprise) still unhappy! Of course, I hadn't learned to eat normally so when I went away to university that autumn I promptly started binge eating and gaining back the weight... slowly but steadily it crept back up over the next ten years!
I wasn't helped when I got married to a man who loves his cake, biscuits and red meat - he cooks for both of us a lot, and I sadly lost the habit of cooking really healthy nosh that I love.
Last December I looked in the mirror and SCREAMED inside! I didn't look like 'me' any more and I felt utterly rubbish, like the old fat and miserable teenager was back and the confident adult me was losing the battle. I'd been trying to 'eat healthily' and constantly doing a half-arsed diet for donkey's years. So I decided that this time had to be different or I'd fail again. (Madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results... whoever said that must have known a serial dieter!)
I've been using MyFitnessPal on iPhone and it's amazing. But I'm finding it so hard to shift these last two stone. I look tubby but acceptable now, yet I still have a way to go before I'm solidly in the 'normal' BMI range. :sigh: I'm planning and cooking for myself more. I haven't binge eaten in about two years (I am super-proud of this, I used to put away, eg, 500g cheese and a loaf of bread, not any more!)
But when I have a 'bad' calorie day, I get super-discouraged and give up for a while. This diary is going to help me over the 'bad' -> give up hump!
Love the Viking xxx
I've lost 2st so far by calorie counting since last December (hooray!) but I'm finding it slow going shifting those last 28lbs... I really need to hold myself accountable to someone else anda keep a record of my progress.
Little bit of background, I was a fat child (weren't most of us...) and a fat, depressed teen. I then lost about 4 or 5 stone aged 19 by crash dieting. I looked pretty amazing, but was so unhealthy and (surprise) still unhappy! Of course, I hadn't learned to eat normally so when I went away to university that autumn I promptly started binge eating and gaining back the weight... slowly but steadily it crept back up over the next ten years!
I wasn't helped when I got married to a man who loves his cake, biscuits and red meat - he cooks for both of us a lot, and I sadly lost the habit of cooking really healthy nosh that I love.
Last December I looked in the mirror and SCREAMED inside! I didn't look like 'me' any more and I felt utterly rubbish, like the old fat and miserable teenager was back and the confident adult me was losing the battle. I'd been trying to 'eat healthily' and constantly doing a half-arsed diet for donkey's years. So I decided that this time had to be different or I'd fail again. (Madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results... whoever said that must have known a serial dieter!)
I've been using MyFitnessPal on iPhone and it's amazing. But I'm finding it so hard to shift these last two stone. I look tubby but acceptable now, yet I still have a way to go before I'm solidly in the 'normal' BMI range. :sigh: I'm planning and cooking for myself more. I haven't binge eaten in about two years (I am super-proud of this, I used to put away, eg, 500g cheese and a loaf of bread, not any more!)
But when I have a 'bad' calorie day, I get super-discouraged and give up for a while. This diary is going to help me over the 'bad' -> give up hump!
Love the Viking xxx
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