Hello everyone,
I am a returner who tried the diet once before but stopped because I couldn't afford it. Over a year I gained the back 3 Stones I had lost. If finances are tight again, something else will have to go. Weight loss is my main priority till I am at target.
I wondered what crystallised your determination to embark on Cambridge / lose weight?
For me, it was the following:
Am over the unsure first days now and feeling more alive already.
Though I dont feel smaller sized yet, my insides feel slimmer. Maybe because I feel more energetic and all this water has cleansed me a bit.
Would be interested to hear your thoughts.
I am a returner who tried the diet once before but stopped because I couldn't afford it. Over a year I gained the back 3 Stones I had lost. If finances are tight again, something else will have to go. Weight loss is my main priority till I am at target.
I wondered what crystallised your determination to embark on Cambridge / lose weight?
For me, it was the following:
- I had become so fat that my usually concerned parents had stopped commenting and would just give me up and down looks when they thought I couldn't see.
- I want to be able to wear whatever I like.
- Being unable to fasten my coat in the bitter cold and snow
- I want to feel comfortable with others looking at me.
- Realising I was wearing the same 3 tops on rotation beacause nothing else would fit
- I want to feel physically strong, fit and agile.
- Realising I had stopped caring about my appearance past a certain weight
- My father is diabetic and Iwant to be healthy.
- My mother is arthritic and I want to be free from pain.
- Hearing some slim teenage girls whispering "Did you see her? That woman's so fat!" And they were just remarking out of shock, not even laughing
- I want to be taken seriously for the intelligent, capable woman I am.
- Having a tram full of people fall silent then start sniggering when a little boy kept calling to his mother that "Big Momma" was standing near him. She didn't even try to stop him and laughed out loud herself.
- I want to live life instead of hiding away because of my weight
- A good friend at work commenting that I was always eating. Not true but how could I argue?
- My rude Manager trying to give me a lecture about how I should eat and cook healthily in front of the whole office .
- My Ex boyfriend drunkenly telling me I am not attractive and then denying that there was anything wrong with that. Every time it came up he would try to justify himself.
- I want real male companionship in life, not to be alone with the TV in my old age.
- My Manager refusing to let me turn down a chocolate he was offering. He brought in a tin for everyone to help themselves but stood over me with it in his hand till I took one ( and threw it away later)
- Being in my thirties and feeling that my prime drifted away some ago, smothered under all this fat.
- Teenagers pretending that I stink because I am fat
- And the worst - feeling horrified when another similarly sized person stands next to me out of fear it will attract even more attention to me. Has anyone else ever felt like that? It fills me with disgust at myself.
- To lick this preoccupation with food and wanting to be slim and just do it and focus on other parts of life. It is like I use my weight as an excuse to busy me so I dont have to deal with anything else.
Am over the unsure first days now and feeling more alive already.
Though I dont feel smaller sized yet, my insides feel slimmer. Maybe because I feel more energetic and all this water has cleansed me a bit.
Would be interested to hear your thoughts.
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