Slim Jen
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Hello all and welcome to my Journal,
My name is Jenny and I'm 29 years old. I have been over weight for most of my adult life and through puberty. I did manage to slim down to 75kg at one stage through very unhealthy means of not eating and bulimia when I was 18-19 years old. I stopped that when I realise the damage I was doing to myself and the weight found it's way back to me.
As a child I was very skinny and my mother was so concerned about me that she asked my teachers to watch me eat my lunch at school. She also used to chase me around with food. I don't blame her, she was just concerned about me.
I think my bad habits evolved around the age of 13/14, when I started to comfort eat. This was also around the time my parents were going through a rough patch. Thinking back now, I cringe at the junk I stuffed into my face.
I used to eat breakfast at home, then a packet of chips (cheese and onion my favourite!) and our school canteen used to make the yummy-est toasted cheese, ham and tomato sandwiches - you know the ones that are toasted into triangles. I tell you now, they didn't hold back on the butter! Then for lunch I'd eat whatever my mum gave me plus something else from the canteen usually a mixed bad of lollies.
Once I got home from school I remember making at least 2 or 3 toasted sandwiches... can you imagine the calories so far?!? Then to top it all off, I'd have dinner with the family. Plus anything else I wanted to eat when I was especially down from all the arguements around me.
Gosh, what a trip down memory lane!
Now about the present!
The heaviest I have ever weighed is 109.7kgs - according to my digital scale. That was in April this year. As you all know, you don't realise how much you really weigh untill you get a 'wake up call'! My wake up call was seeing photos of my self at my cousin's 21st birthday this year and an incidient at the party.
My family are all slim and I'm the most over-weight, out of the females and most of the males. I come from ethinic family, and at weddings, all the females of my family get lifted onto the shoulder of the men, when we are dancing.
Well, I always run away and sit down at this stage because I'm so embrassed at my weight and don't want any one to injure themselves trying to lift me up.
Back to the wake up call! My uncles were feeling extra strong on my cousin's 21st party and chased me around. I finally give up running away coz it was getting embrassing. It took 2 of my family to left me and then they went around after complaining of a sore back. I didn't ask to be lifted on anyone's shoulders!!!
So, after that embrassing episode, I hopped on my scales which I had sucessfully avoided for about a year... and almost died on the spot. 109kg!!! Somehow, I had let myself slide and put on an additional 14kgs.
I decided then and there that come to the end of the year I would weigh less and went back to Jenny Craig.
I signed up for JC when I was 19-20 years old, and had been on the program off and on since then. I got down to 95kg from 102kg a couple of years back. But it was so hard to shift the weight and I was only ever losing about 2kg a month. I would be discouraged and give up.
I have also tried almost every other weight loss method including xenical, lite n easy, weight watchers, the egg diet, the cabbage soup diet, tonnes of other diets from the magazines that promised results.... expect for me it didn't work.
A co-worker of mine watched a segment on A Current Affair about the cohen's diet and forwarded the link to the site. At first I looked at the food and thought to myself... I can't do this! Not enough food. I love my food and especially bread. Fresh crusty bread
... mmm ... opps off topic.
That day I called the Lifestyle Clinic and booked my-self into an info session, I have been on the Cohen's plan for 12 days. So far I have lost (I don't believe it) 6kgs!!!!
For the first time in ages I truly believe that I can do this! I can lose the weight! I can be that skinny self that is hiding in me somewhere. I can lose this weight and be confidence in myself. Not have to go shopping for the large/old fashioned clothes that my grandma wears. I'm young d*#@ it I want to feel young!!!
Go to go now, I'm off to the beach today, its 37 today and I love to swim. Hope you all have a good weekend and I'll catch you all later
My name is Jenny and I'm 29 years old. I have been over weight for most of my adult life and through puberty. I did manage to slim down to 75kg at one stage through very unhealthy means of not eating and bulimia when I was 18-19 years old. I stopped that when I realise the damage I was doing to myself and the weight found it's way back to me.
As a child I was very skinny and my mother was so concerned about me that she asked my teachers to watch me eat my lunch at school. She also used to chase me around with food. I don't blame her, she was just concerned about me.
I think my bad habits evolved around the age of 13/14, when I started to comfort eat. This was also around the time my parents were going through a rough patch. Thinking back now, I cringe at the junk I stuffed into my face.
I used to eat breakfast at home, then a packet of chips (cheese and onion my favourite!) and our school canteen used to make the yummy-est toasted cheese, ham and tomato sandwiches - you know the ones that are toasted into triangles. I tell you now, they didn't hold back on the butter! Then for lunch I'd eat whatever my mum gave me plus something else from the canteen usually a mixed bad of lollies.
Once I got home from school I remember making at least 2 or 3 toasted sandwiches... can you imagine the calories so far?!? Then to top it all off, I'd have dinner with the family. Plus anything else I wanted to eat when I was especially down from all the arguements around me.
Gosh, what a trip down memory lane!
Now about the present!
The heaviest I have ever weighed is 109.7kgs - according to my digital scale. That was in April this year. As you all know, you don't realise how much you really weigh untill you get a 'wake up call'! My wake up call was seeing photos of my self at my cousin's 21st birthday this year and an incidient at the party.
My family are all slim and I'm the most over-weight, out of the females and most of the males. I come from ethinic family, and at weddings, all the females of my family get lifted onto the shoulder of the men, when we are dancing.
Well, I always run away and sit down at this stage because I'm so embrassed at my weight and don't want any one to injure themselves trying to lift me up.
Back to the wake up call! My uncles were feeling extra strong on my cousin's 21st party and chased me around. I finally give up running away coz it was getting embrassing. It took 2 of my family to left me and then they went around after complaining of a sore back. I didn't ask to be lifted on anyone's shoulders!!!
So, after that embrassing episode, I hopped on my scales which I had sucessfully avoided for about a year... and almost died on the spot. 109kg!!! Somehow, I had let myself slide and put on an additional 14kgs.
I decided then and there that come to the end of the year I would weigh less and went back to Jenny Craig.
I signed up for JC when I was 19-20 years old, and had been on the program off and on since then. I got down to 95kg from 102kg a couple of years back. But it was so hard to shift the weight and I was only ever losing about 2kg a month. I would be discouraged and give up.
I have also tried almost every other weight loss method including xenical, lite n easy, weight watchers, the egg diet, the cabbage soup diet, tonnes of other diets from the magazines that promised results.... expect for me it didn't work.
A co-worker of mine watched a segment on A Current Affair about the cohen's diet and forwarded the link to the site. At first I looked at the food and thought to myself... I can't do this! Not enough food. I love my food and especially bread. Fresh crusty bread
... mmm ... opps off topic.That day I called the Lifestyle Clinic and booked my-self into an info session, I have been on the Cohen's plan for 12 days. So far I have lost (I don't believe it) 6kgs!!!!
For the first time in ages I truly believe that I can do this! I can lose the weight! I can be that skinny self that is hiding in me somewhere. I can lose this weight and be confidence in myself. Not have to go shopping for the large/old fashioned clothes that my grandma wears. I'm young d*#@ it I want to feel young!!!
Go to go now, I'm off to the beach today, its 37 today and I love to swim. Hope you all have a good weekend and I'll catch you all later
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