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Septembers_Echo

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(Echos Ocean, becasue my name is echo, kinda like the dophin ;P heh)

Hello everyone I am all new and shiney here! My name is echo and I have just started this weight loss journey with real determination in the last week and a half.

I lost 2lbs in the first week taking me from around 180 to 178. I am female, early 20s and 5'1 hoping to loose around 50 - 60 lbs (will decide which when I get much closer!)

The first week went pretty awesome, I didnt even crave any of my bad comfort foods really, well not after the first few days. I pretty much bought in all my food at the begining of the week and stuck to eating only that so I couldnt eat lots of junk because I just didnt have any lying around :) a good tactic I feel.

This week is going pretty good so far however I dont really expect much of a loss. Its a close friends birthday so tomorrow we are going out for a meal with her family which always makes eating well harder. And at the weekend I am hosting a party for all of our friends which will have lots of party foods and cake, which although I will try to be restrained with I refuse to stay away from completly since I am putting so much effort into baking and preparing it all!

Well thats me for now :) I hope I will keep loosing weight and have many more things to update about and keep this alive.

Comments are always lovely and welcome and I would especialy love to here from people who have simlar amounts to lose as me :)

thanks for reading

Echo
xxx
 
Welcome to the party! If there is anything we can do, let us know. I'm glad to see you lost 2 pounds. That is a nice, healthy number for weight loss.

I do know it's going to be hard to go to a party and not partake in some of the food..A good suggestion is load up on some veggies/fruit before you go. Anything fiberous will be great as you will fill full.
 
Thanks for the replies everyone :) Sunflower I checked out and comment on your thread.
I shall make sure I try to eat some proper food before the party. On the upside its at my house so if I get hungry I can just disapear and eat some healthy food instead of masses of cake and crisps.
No worries here for the pills and supliments, I am a firm beliver in you dont get anything worthwhile without working for it. no quick soloutions, unfortunatly :p

Anyhow I thought I would make a post about food since food is what this whole shindig is about, what I like and have problems with an so on.

Firsty I am a vegetarian, well almost hah (I will eat chicken when I eat out if the veg options are naff, becasue often that are). I absoloutly love vegtables and grains and pulses. I am a big hippy at heart. I love to cook those kind of foods which are just a big mush of lentils and vegtables with various spices and sauces and stuff. oh and cous cous is the best thing ever!
I used to be a full out vegan for a while and so I learned quite a lot about cooking to create meals with complete protien and nutrients you need becasue buying premade stuff is so hard when vegan.
My most loved food is soup, soup is amazing and wonderful full of all those things I love.

Anyhow so I hear you saying "if you are so awesome and in love with healthy foods how are you fat exactly?".

Well see there is this other side to me, the side that doesnt eat for the goodness of the food but for the comfort. I'm a classic junk food comfort eater. I always go for the most sweet sickly cakes and sugary sweets. And I cant just have one. If I buy a box of 6 cakes I will eat all 6 until I feel sick and awful.not becasue i really wanted them, its just like, a compulsion or something.

Anyhow thats really what I am hoping to change, my relationship with food. I see this less of a diet and more like rehab :p I am so far around two weeks clean of junk food binges, I have had one small cookie and a few peices of choclate that friends gave to me and that is it :) I have managed to buy no junk food and am not really missing it right now. feeling a lot better for not putting so much awful stuff in my body all the time.

anyway I'm done posting for tonight i promise!
 
So eating well on the day of the party didnt go well at all, or even slightly okay! my food for the day consisted of

Cheese Sandwiches
Crisps
Sweets
Cake
Alchohol

Bad times! I couldnt even guess the calories and sugar and salt and so on! I am keeping optimistic and thinking that now I can go back to my eating healthy. Before I would have done this and then kept on eating loads of bad stuff everyday. So not all is lost. My bosy is not thanking me this morning. Day of detox and much vegtables and nutritional things and so is is needed I feel!
 
Don't worry about slipping up! I did it awfully the other day and felt terrible too, but tomorrow is a new day! And you can do it :D
 
So I was right about not expecting much loss from last week, have remained the same at 178 but considering how mad I went with the junk food and alchohol on some days that week I am okay with that, at least its not a gain!

getting back on track this week, trying to get all of the left over junk food out o my hosue so there is no temptation!
 
So today was a bad bad day for food!

I had around 1000 calories of "real" non junk food so all good until late evening.

And then the binging began. cake, crisps, pancake things, sweets!!! all in all around 1500 calories of junk! just nothing but junk! I feel pretty sick and disgusting.

First time in aaaages I have properly binged. I mean I have slightly over indulged at times but this is the first full out binge for a long time which is a big big improvement on how requently it happened before.

So out of darkness I shall find light. Tomorrow will be a better day :)
 
Hey everyone long time no type. I've been really up and down with my weight but just lately I have been really bad with binging and am back to square one again. I think every day this week I have binged to some degree or anoher. I just feel so out of control. Yesterday all in one go I ate 3 differant types of candy bar, a whole easter egg, 4 jacket potatos with cheese!!! 4!! a few packs of crisps and probably more I have forgotten, I woke up still feeling ill and full this morning. But then today I binged 2 packs of candy,a pack of chocolate biscuit things, an instant noodle, instant pasta, more crisps and a chocolate bar.

Eugh I feel so terrible, I feel sick and horrible but honestly right now I could go do it all over again. I just have this really strong urge pulling me to do it. I know its stupid, i KNOW I mean I am writting about it but its still 50/50 if I will grab more food when I go past he kitchen next.

I wish I could speak to people in my life about this, I just want to talk to someone but they will all just think I am just greedy and should have better self control...why is it when I am going through my not eating enough stages everyone is so quick to jump on the disorder train and try to make me better but when I am binging I am just being greedy and should sort it out myself.

*sighs*

Any replies would be great, and people who can relate would be extra awesome :)
 
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