Hi Kandy,
This site is about support!!!
And as such we we are all here trying to do our best...
You know how I have struggled myself on this weight loss journey I have had my slips and slides along the way.
No one is here to judge another and comparing yourself with how others are doing is futile as we are all so different.
I have always said the key to success is finding a diet that suits.
Most over eating is a reflection that things are not well in our world, we are stressed out and we use food to compensate. When we eat fatty-rich foods or comfort foods such as chocolate and crisps etc., the body increases the output of serontonin along with other neurotransmitter and we get the feel good factor.
This feel good factor lasts for a period of time and it is not long before the level of serontonin drops and we become tired and down in ourselves again. When this happens once again we turn to the high carb food and begin the cycle of self-medicating on food all over again.
We have to learn new healthier ways of coping with stress and sometimes we do need counselling to help us to step off and look at what we are doing with our lives.
Even if you do go for surgery you still have the same problems and surgery is not going to make them go away.
Stress leads to anxiety, exhaustion, depression, insomnia and tired all the time syndrome = depletion of nutrients in the body = over eating then is triggered in an effort to restore the balance of certain nutrients.
I have also seen the figures for weight regain and it is between 80 to 90 % regain all of their weight by year 5, but I would hope to be one of the 10 to 15% who keeps it off.
I don't believe in a quick fix, but I do think vlcd's offer a solution when your morbidly obese to help you take back some control over your eating.
I have found that doing a vlcd has given me the break from food that I needed to have a good hard look at myself and to do something about it.
Losing the weight quickly on a vlcd does offer a light at the end of a tunnel and together with counselling I feel most of us who put the work into it will and are turning our lives around.
It is all very well talking about healthy eating and exercise if you have a stone or two to lose, but when you get into numbers above this it can be difficult and I know I was completely unfit to do exercise when I started out...walking was an effort.
Now I can run up and down the stairs and my life along with opportunities have expanded and it is nice where as before the only expansion taking place was my body size.
Whatever you decide Kandy we will support you.
Love Mini xxx
Hey there Gen,
Well done i see you abstained at the clarence i tip my hat to ya !
As for me letting down the side as usual i will probably be kicked out of minimins soon if i dont start losing weight lol !
Not a very good advert am i !
Oh well my thinking at the moment is that of desperation i am thinking get my will rewritten and my affairs in order and go for surgery hey i could leave you my cambridge packs lol !
I am in touch with 2 lovely ladies who have both had this surgery and i am just trying to convince hubby that its worth that risk ! xxx
Take care lovey xxx
