blue butterfly
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Hi everyone, I’ve been looking around this site and have found it quite inspirational! I’ve finally decided to become serious about weight loss and I thought starting a diary might help keep me on track, so here goes…
A bit of backstory:
I used to be a skinny little thing, always doing sports… but for some reason, I’m not actually sure why, I started binge eating. I felt disgusted by it, but clearly not enough to make myself stop. A little while after, I got injured and had to stop doing sports. I tend to blame my weight gain on this injury, but the truth is that I’d already started binge eating. (I’ve never told anyone this before!) I’m pretty sure the injury did contribute to my weight gain, since it meant I didn’t have all that exercise burning up the extra calories (I had been doing a lot of exercise: 7hrs of gymnastics a week plus training quite intensively for a national cross country competition); and I probably ate more as well because I was sat around the house feeling sorry for myself, but it is wrong of me to use the injury as an excuse, when the root cause of my weight gain is bad eating habits.
Since then my weight has gone up and down a bit. Sometimes I’d get a rush of weight loss enthusiasm, but it never lasted. It didn’t help that my injury kept recurring either.
A few weeks ago, I was told by a doctor not to run or do impact sports again because the injury would keep coming back. At first I was very upset by this, well I still am really, but I think I needed to hear it. Now I’ve resolved not to put off becoming serious about weight loss ‘until my leg gets better,’ anymore.
…Ok, that was actually quite a lot of backstory!
Overall goal:
I want to (and WILL!!) lose 20lb to reach my target weight of 112lb and BMI of 18.6.
My plan:
A bit of backstory:
I used to be a skinny little thing, always doing sports… but for some reason, I’m not actually sure why, I started binge eating. I felt disgusted by it, but clearly not enough to make myself stop. A little while after, I got injured and had to stop doing sports. I tend to blame my weight gain on this injury, but the truth is that I’d already started binge eating. (I’ve never told anyone this before!) I’m pretty sure the injury did contribute to my weight gain, since it meant I didn’t have all that exercise burning up the extra calories (I had been doing a lot of exercise: 7hrs of gymnastics a week plus training quite intensively for a national cross country competition); and I probably ate more as well because I was sat around the house feeling sorry for myself, but it is wrong of me to use the injury as an excuse, when the root cause of my weight gain is bad eating habits.
Since then my weight has gone up and down a bit. Sometimes I’d get a rush of weight loss enthusiasm, but it never lasted. It didn’t help that my injury kept recurring either.
A few weeks ago, I was told by a doctor not to run or do impact sports again because the injury would keep coming back. At first I was very upset by this, well I still am really, but I think I needed to hear it. Now I’ve resolved not to put off becoming serious about weight loss ‘until my leg gets better,’ anymore.
…Ok, that was actually quite a lot of backstory!
Overall goal:
I want to (and WILL!!) lose 20lb to reach my target weight of 112lb and BMI of 18.6.
My plan:
- I want to lose at least 2lb by the end of term (i.e. in 4 weeks). This may not seem very ambitious, but for now my priority has to be exams. I don’t want to be eating too little that it affects my concentration; and I can’t really do much in the way of exercise because I can’t afford in time or money to join a gym or pool right now. I’m eating about 1200 calories a day.
- I will be working in the US for the following 11 weeks. I will have to eat what I am given and the only control I will have is over how much of it I eat; and I’m not sure how much opportunity there will be for exercise, so once again I have a rather unambitious goal of losing at least 5lb in this time.
- When I get back I will join a gym, work out intensively, and keep my calorie intake at 1200 calories a day. I hope to lose at least 8lb in the month before I go back to uni.
- In the first month back at uni I hope to lose the last 5lb (or however much it is that I have left to lose) by keeping my calorie intake at 1200 calories a day, and working out regularly at the gym.
- I will reward myself by buying a beautiful, SMALL, new dress just in time for my college and the medsoc balls!!
