hayley6698
Member
Hi everyone,
I made a conscious decision a few weeks ago that I need a new start and to get back to my old self, however moving house and having my birthday one week later meant that is has taken me until today to make the first real step. I decided to start this thread as a way of keeping myself motivated (I am a serial diet failure), motivate others, get and give advice. This will be the most honest I have ever been about what I'm eating and the way I feel about myself so I'm really hoping it helps to give me that extra bit of motivation.
A bit about me:
I met my boyfriend a little over 6 years ago weighing around 12-12.5 stone, my weight had never really bothered me until that point so I'm not exactly sure how much I weighed but judging from pictures and the way I look now, I guess around that. Having himself just lost 5 stone my boyfriend was very conscious of his own weight and, although he never ever commented on mine, it opened my eyes to how blindly I was eating and how big I was starting to get. I think the first throngs of love and the fact that his house was a 2 mile walk from mine, a walk which I made at least once a day helped the weight drop off quickly and by the time Christmas came 9 months later I was down to 9st 10, a weight which I had never dared to even dream about before without making any real effort to follow a diet or to take any exercise. Anyway, a couple of years passed, my university work got more challenging meaning I was sat at a desk more often, my boyfriend and I moved in together, removing the walk which was keeping my legs and bum firm, and slowly the compliments about how great I was looking stopped. Then I realised that all the weight I had lost had crept back on and it had brought with it a friend, a great big 1 stone friend! For the past couple of years I've been ignoring this fact, I know it's there but I pretend it isn't but recently I've realised that it is getting out of control, I've never felt uncomfortable in my own body before like I do now, I've never not wanted to socialise because I feel embarrassed about the way I look but that's how I feel now and that's why I'm taking the bull by the horns and starting today!
This year has been one of new starts, I have moved back to the city I love and I will shortly be getting out of a job I loathe (which I don't think helps with the lack of confidence) to go back to uni to train as a history teacher, and the start of my journey to a slimmer, healthier, more confident me is being added to the list.
It might be a bit late to get a super bikini body for my summer holiday in 6 weeks but I'm hoping to at least be starting to feel a little better about myself by then.
I am not going to Slimming World meetings as I really can't afford them at the moment so any support and advice which could be offered here would be really appreciated as would any recipe recommendations!
Lots of love
Hx
I made a conscious decision a few weeks ago that I need a new start and to get back to my old self, however moving house and having my birthday one week later meant that is has taken me until today to make the first real step. I decided to start this thread as a way of keeping myself motivated (I am a serial diet failure), motivate others, get and give advice. This will be the most honest I have ever been about what I'm eating and the way I feel about myself so I'm really hoping it helps to give me that extra bit of motivation.
A bit about me:
I met my boyfriend a little over 6 years ago weighing around 12-12.5 stone, my weight had never really bothered me until that point so I'm not exactly sure how much I weighed but judging from pictures and the way I look now, I guess around that. Having himself just lost 5 stone my boyfriend was very conscious of his own weight and, although he never ever commented on mine, it opened my eyes to how blindly I was eating and how big I was starting to get. I think the first throngs of love and the fact that his house was a 2 mile walk from mine, a walk which I made at least once a day helped the weight drop off quickly and by the time Christmas came 9 months later I was down to 9st 10, a weight which I had never dared to even dream about before without making any real effort to follow a diet or to take any exercise. Anyway, a couple of years passed, my university work got more challenging meaning I was sat at a desk more often, my boyfriend and I moved in together, removing the walk which was keeping my legs and bum firm, and slowly the compliments about how great I was looking stopped. Then I realised that all the weight I had lost had crept back on and it had brought with it a friend, a great big 1 stone friend! For the past couple of years I've been ignoring this fact, I know it's there but I pretend it isn't but recently I've realised that it is getting out of control, I've never felt uncomfortable in my own body before like I do now, I've never not wanted to socialise because I feel embarrassed about the way I look but that's how I feel now and that's why I'm taking the bull by the horns and starting today!
This year has been one of new starts, I have moved back to the city I love and I will shortly be getting out of a job I loathe (which I don't think helps with the lack of confidence) to go back to uni to train as a history teacher, and the start of my journey to a slimmer, healthier, more confident me is being added to the list.
It might be a bit late to get a super bikini body for my summer holiday in 6 weeks but I'm hoping to at least be starting to feel a little better about myself by then.
I am not going to Slimming World meetings as I really can't afford them at the moment so any support and advice which could be offered here would be really appreciated as would any recipe recommendations!
Lots of love
Hx