kellythepeg
Silver Member
Hi Ladies (and Gentlemen?? I’m new!)
Today is my first day, please be nice. I’m not really too sure what I’m doing or how to navigate myself around this place – any tips would be very much welcome!!
I’ll start at the beginning – 3 years ago (Feb 09 - almost to the day!) I weighed 16st 6lbs. I’d battled with my weight all my life but never really had enough motivation to shed the massive amount of weight I had to lose (a couple of pounds here and there..you know the drill!) and I wasn’t overly-educated about the “right” and “wrong” kind of foods (I thought eating tuna and cucumber sandwiches – half a tub of mayo included – was a really healthy lunch.. so healthy infact, I’d often have 2! But this time was different – I was 20 years old, I’d just started University and for the first time I really felt like I could do it (it probably helped that I never had enough money to buy mountains of food!).. and I did! I lost nearly 4 and a half stone in 9 months and felt absolutely phenomenal (I know a lot of people say “JUST losing weight won’t make you happy”… but I was really frikkin happy!!).
THEN, my newly slender 12st 1lb (September 09) self only went out and fell in love. Head over heels in undying love. Now, this thing they call “love weight”.. it’s true! It happens! We ate out, we cooked, every where we went and every thing we did involved….EATING!!!! For a while I was fine, I’d put a pound on here and a pound on there, but still being in the 12’s felt great (please remember here that I was used to seeing the number 16 on the scales) and it didn’t phase me!
Then I hit the 13’s..
Then the 14’s..
And then.. (December 2011)
The dreaded 15’s!!! NOOOO!!!
Given that I’m no longer in that massive fatty relationship (my partner could eat and eat and never gain a single pound!! A word springs to mind – I won’t post it here out of fear of being booted off this lovely website) this weigh-in was like a massive slap in the face! I felt very angry at myself and cried for a few days (ish. not really. kind of) (this story has a happy ending…..I hope!!???)
NOW, I am very happy to announce that I jumped on the scales this morning (and every other morning since December, I’m not going to lie!) and it showed 14st 6lbs Still a long way to go but I did it once, I know I can do it again! And it feels the same…the sense of motivation and not even craving bad foods because I prefer the feeling of knowing I’ve had a really good day – and the scales will show it!
I guess I’m here for a bit of support. I chuffed it all up last time, I can’t let myself do it again. I’m 23 and I don’t want to spend any more of my 20’s having to squeeze into Bridget Jones pants and desperately raiding Primark’s shelves for a half decent TANkini. I want a BIkini, damn it!!!
I want to feel happy again – I want to be back where I was in the summer of 09, but what I’d really, REALLY like is to be 11st 5lbs (the highest weight I can possibly be to fall under “ideal” and not “overweight” or “OBESE!!!!!” on my BMI scale – depressing!)
Best of luck to everyone, please get in touch!!
Lots of love
Me xx
Today is my first day, please be nice. I’m not really too sure what I’m doing or how to navigate myself around this place – any tips would be very much welcome!!
I’ll start at the beginning – 3 years ago (Feb 09 - almost to the day!) I weighed 16st 6lbs. I’d battled with my weight all my life but never really had enough motivation to shed the massive amount of weight I had to lose (a couple of pounds here and there..you know the drill!) and I wasn’t overly-educated about the “right” and “wrong” kind of foods (I thought eating tuna and cucumber sandwiches – half a tub of mayo included – was a really healthy lunch.. so healthy infact, I’d often have 2! But this time was different – I was 20 years old, I’d just started University and for the first time I really felt like I could do it (it probably helped that I never had enough money to buy mountains of food!).. and I did! I lost nearly 4 and a half stone in 9 months and felt absolutely phenomenal (I know a lot of people say “JUST losing weight won’t make you happy”… but I was really frikkin happy!!).
THEN, my newly slender 12st 1lb (September 09) self only went out and fell in love. Head over heels in undying love. Now, this thing they call “love weight”.. it’s true! It happens! We ate out, we cooked, every where we went and every thing we did involved….EATING!!!! For a while I was fine, I’d put a pound on here and a pound on there, but still being in the 12’s felt great (please remember here that I was used to seeing the number 16 on the scales) and it didn’t phase me!
Then I hit the 13’s..
Then the 14’s..
And then.. (December 2011)
The dreaded 15’s!!! NOOOO!!!
Given that I’m no longer in that massive fatty relationship (my partner could eat and eat and never gain a single pound!! A word springs to mind – I won’t post it here out of fear of being booted off this lovely website) this weigh-in was like a massive slap in the face! I felt very angry at myself and cried for a few days (ish. not really. kind of) (this story has a happy ending…..I hope!!???)
NOW, I am very happy to announce that I jumped on the scales this morning (and every other morning since December, I’m not going to lie!) and it showed 14st 6lbs
Still a long way to go but I did it once, I know I can do it again! And it feels the same…the sense of motivation and not even craving bad foods because I prefer the feeling of knowing I’ve had a really good day – and the scales will show it!I guess I’m here for a bit of support. I chuffed it all up last time, I can’t let myself do it again. I’m 23 and I don’t want to spend any more of my 20’s having to squeeze into Bridget Jones pants and desperately raiding Primark’s shelves for a half decent TANkini. I want a BIkini, damn it!!!
I want to feel happy again – I want to be back where I was in the summer of 09, but what I’d really, REALLY like is to be 11st 5lbs (the highest weight I can possibly be to fall under “ideal” and not “overweight” or “OBESE!!!!!” on my BMI scale – depressing!)
Best of luck to everyone, please get in touch!!
Lots of love
Me xx
