Hi all.
I'm back. I have been absent for a while dealing with "life events" shall we say, and deciding what I want to do now that I am redundant. Well, I have been redundant now for 4 months, but have only recently really got my head round it and started dealing with it. I just have to decide now if I want another long-term permie job (if such a thing still exists in the IT industry these days ) - less money but an easier life, or whether I want to go contracting. The latter has more stress, but better compensation!!
Anyway, during my down time (in more ways than one), I unfortunately turned to my old friend "food" (I have once again realised that food is not my friend but my enemy, but it hoodwinked me for a while) and have been comfort eating. Idiotic I know, but hey.
One positive I can take from the whole experience is that somewhere in the back of my mind there was always a voice of sense, so at the end of the day I did not go as wild as I used to - I was always aware of what I was doing, and although I ate too many calories and stopped exercising, it is not as bad as it could have been.
I know why this happened to me, and I have no-one to blame but myself. I know and accept that, and I am putting it right again.
I lost a total of 7st 4lbs (102 lbs) last time, dropping from 18st 5lbs to 11st 1lb. My 4 months of madness has put back 27lbs of that, so I am still a light-weight compared to my old self even though I do currently weigh in at 13st.
I started SS with CD 3 days ago, and have stuck to it 100% so far. It is tough, very tough, and the chatterboxes are working overtime trying to convince me to eat, but I will not break.
I feel awful at the moment, but I never EVER want to feel like I did when I was 18st 5lbs, and it is that that will keep me focussed now.
I have my head on relatively straight again, and that is what I needed.
Cheers,
Steve
I'm back. I have been absent for a while dealing with "life events" shall we say, and deciding what I want to do now that I am redundant. Well, I have been redundant now for 4 months, but have only recently really got my head round it and started dealing with it. I just have to decide now if I want another long-term permie job (if such a thing still exists in the IT industry these days ) - less money but an easier life, or whether I want to go contracting. The latter has more stress, but better compensation!!
Anyway, during my down time (in more ways than one), I unfortunately turned to my old friend "food" (I have once again realised that food is not my friend but my enemy, but it hoodwinked me for a while) and have been comfort eating. Idiotic I know, but hey.
One positive I can take from the whole experience is that somewhere in the back of my mind there was always a voice of sense, so at the end of the day I did not go as wild as I used to - I was always aware of what I was doing, and although I ate too many calories and stopped exercising, it is not as bad as it could have been.
I know why this happened to me, and I have no-one to blame but myself. I know and accept that, and I am putting it right again.
I lost a total of 7st 4lbs (102 lbs) last time, dropping from 18st 5lbs to 11st 1lb. My 4 months of madness has put back 27lbs of that, so I am still a light-weight compared to my old self even though I do currently weigh in at 13st.
I started SS with CD 3 days ago, and have stuck to it 100% so far. It is tough, very tough, and the chatterboxes are working overtime trying to convince me to eat, but I will not break.
I feel awful at the moment, but I never EVER want to feel like I did when I was 18st 5lbs, and it is that that will keep me focussed now.
I have my head on relatively straight again, and that is what I needed.
Cheers,
Steve