spikey
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I want to lose 6 stones 4 pounds. My start weight was 16 stone 11 pounds so that means I'd like to achieve a weight of 10 and a half stones which will bring me within my healthy weight range for my height.
I hope to achieve my target within the next 18 months and am using a combination of calorie counting (1500 per day), low/medium GI foods, low fat foods (less than 5%) and exercise. I'm only exercising once a week 'properly' at the moment. I hope to have the confidence to do more as my weight reduces.
My motivation for losing weight are my own 17 reasons for losing weight which i have quoted elsewhere on this forum - but here they are again!
Things are going really well so far - only two weeks in i know but i've already lost 5.5 lbs with hopefully another 2.5 - 3 this week. Did succumb to a couple of glasses of wine this week but not a disaster. I've measured myself this morning and i've lost 7 inches total from my major 'bits' (Bust, waist, belly, hips and right thigh) - yes i do have another thigh but one measurement will do!
I need desperately to feel better about myself. You see, 15 years ago i did this after having my first child and I lost 6 stones. I kept the weight off for 10 years and even ran four slimming clubs for Slimming Magazine for all that time. I was one of the top group leaders in the country and went all over the world on conferences etc and even had my picture in magazines! Then my circumstances altered, I went back to full-time work after my second child went back to school and everything changed. A really bad period in my professional life plus my husband's company going bust with us having to pay the bank back for business debts led to a whole load of comfort eating/drinking and I've piled weight back on, particularly over the past 3 and a half years. Its convenient just to ignore the problem when you have other things on your mind but the end result is that you end up feeling crap about yourself.
Now things are on a more even keel and I think its finally time for me to get a grip of this problem before it kills me . . . Feeling motivated, positive and determined - although I know from past experience that this is the easy part!
So there you go - my first diary entry - and a long one at that! Hopefully the next one will be shorter!
I hope to achieve my target within the next 18 months and am using a combination of calorie counting (1500 per day), low/medium GI foods, low fat foods (less than 5%) and exercise. I'm only exercising once a week 'properly' at the moment. I hope to have the confidence to do more as my weight reduces.
My motivation for losing weight are my own 17 reasons for losing weight which i have quoted elsewhere on this forum - but here they are again!
- to feel healthier
- to feel fitter and have more energy
- to look better
- so i can stop shopping in Evans
- so i can bend down to fasten my trainers or put on my knickers without having to sit on the bed or trip over them!
- So I am more attractive to my husband – maybe we could even have sex
- to have more self confidence and self esteem
- to improve my aching back and joints
- so my wedding ring will fit again
- to give me courage to change the bad aspects of my life
- to live longer
- so i can paint my toenails
- so the skin on my heels doesn't crack and bleed
- so i can't rest my coffee cup on my stomach
- so my children aren’t embarrassed
- so I stop feeling embarrassed to be seen in public by people I knew when
- I was slimmer
- and the last one - for now - so i can actually wipe my ****!!!!
Things are going really well so far - only two weeks in i know but i've already lost 5.5 lbs with hopefully another 2.5 - 3 this week. Did succumb to a couple of glasses of wine this week but not a disaster. I've measured myself this morning and i've lost 7 inches total from my major 'bits' (Bust, waist, belly, hips and right thigh) - yes i do have another thigh but one measurement will do!
I need desperately to feel better about myself. You see, 15 years ago i did this after having my first child and I lost 6 stones. I kept the weight off for 10 years and even ran four slimming clubs for Slimming Magazine for all that time. I was one of the top group leaders in the country and went all over the world on conferences etc and even had my picture in magazines! Then my circumstances altered, I went back to full-time work after my second child went back to school and everything changed. A really bad period in my professional life plus my husband's company going bust with us having to pay the bank back for business debts led to a whole load of comfort eating/drinking and I've piled weight back on, particularly over the past 3 and a half years. Its convenient just to ignore the problem when you have other things on your mind but the end result is that you end up feeling crap about yourself.
Now things are on a more even keel and I think its finally time for me to get a grip of this problem before it kills me . . . Feeling motivated, positive and determined - although I know from past experience that this is the easy part!
So there you go - my first diary entry - and a long one at that! Hopefully the next one will be shorter!