James,
First of all huge hugs.....!
Secondly, any girl worth their salt would look past the weight and any employer that looks at your weight isn't worth working for!!
You've taken a huge and completely honest step back into low carbing, and you know it works!
6 months has flown for me and I was feeling exactly the same as you! I work in a uniformed role with the public day in day out and I used to feel absolutely disgusting stood there in front of masses of young, slim people!
I still do somedays, but then I remind myself how big I was last September and realise I've come quite far!
Draw a line under the Chinese, and for god sake don't beat yourself up you've had a stressful few days....one of your food triggers as with most of us appears to be stressful situations.....so the moral is learn from it and next time have a better action plan!
I still drink, low carb though, wine, clear spirits etc! I still have Chinese, ribs without sauce, hot n sour soup, chicken with cashew etc and no rice! And I keep all this to a minimum....maybe once a fortnight/month!
Chin up, it'll happen and your still young, so put the past behind and focus on number 1.... We are all behind you and will catch and dust you off if you fall....which will happen occasionally because your human!!
J x
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