Fat_Girl_Slim
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OK, here’s the shortened version:
Text book yo-yo dieting 43 year old here (in complete denial about my age). I am the mother of three kids aged 11, 6 and 5, I have struggled with my weight for, um, about 35 years now…
I have never been technically obese, but always on the well-rounded side. I managed to keep a handle on things until the babies came along. With my first pregnancy, I ate my way into 45 pounds of weight gain, mostly with a tub of ice cream (pralines and cream) per day. I lost most of that weight, although it took me a year. Of course I regained it all by the time DS1 was born, four years later and a third pregnancy shortly afterwards meant I never lost it again afer DS2 was born.
Since then I have done the textbook yo-yo thing for the last five years. I have done WW, OA, self-will, FitDay, gym, yoga, cycling, walking. I usually last for about one month of healthy eating and exercise, then just lose motivation overnight, mostly starting with a giant chocolate binge around PMT time.
I work. I run around after three kids and I am also at college at night, so find it really hard to squeeze in that exercise, except when it’s not term time. I was doing yoga three times a week, plus cycling into work, over the Summer until last September. Now I just manage to cycle the couple of miles to and from my office, three days a week, no more. I have lost all of my yoga tone and my belly now sits on my knees when I type.
I weighed myself yesterday (haven’t done so for a couple of months, as it’s too depressing) and I was 162 pounds. I am 5 foot, 3 inches and, despite what the tables say, my ideal weight would be 135-140lbs. If forced to set a goal, I would like to be 135lbs by 1st July 2008; that’s a weight loss of about 1.5lbs per week.
Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it?!
Text book yo-yo dieting 43 year old here (in complete denial about my age). I am the mother of three kids aged 11, 6 and 5, I have struggled with my weight for, um, about 35 years now…
I have never been technically obese, but always on the well-rounded side. I managed to keep a handle on things until the babies came along. With my first pregnancy, I ate my way into 45 pounds of weight gain, mostly with a tub of ice cream (pralines and cream) per day. I lost most of that weight, although it took me a year. Of course I regained it all by the time DS1 was born, four years later and a third pregnancy shortly afterwards meant I never lost it again afer DS2 was born.
Since then I have done the textbook yo-yo thing for the last five years. I have done WW, OA, self-will, FitDay, gym, yoga, cycling, walking. I usually last for about one month of healthy eating and exercise, then just lose motivation overnight, mostly starting with a giant chocolate binge around PMT time.
I work. I run around after three kids and I am also at college at night, so find it really hard to squeeze in that exercise, except when it’s not term time. I was doing yoga three times a week, plus cycling into work, over the Summer until last September. Now I just manage to cycle the couple of miles to and from my office, three days a week, no more. I have lost all of my yoga tone and my belly now sits on my knees when I type.
I weighed myself yesterday (haven’t done so for a couple of months, as it’s too depressing) and I was 162 pounds. I am 5 foot, 3 inches and, despite what the tables say, my ideal weight would be 135-140lbs. If forced to set a goal, I would like to be 135lbs by 1st July 2008; that’s a weight loss of about 1.5lbs per week.
Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it?!
