My little weight loss truimphant....

[carole]

Ok well i was going to wait until my weight loss was more impressive, but I am just so happy and pleased with my efforts I just had to come here and tell you all, I have been doing the Weight Watchers programme by myself at home for five weeks now and I have lost 5 KGS, that is around 11 pounds, I am feeling way better about myself , but I still want to achieve more and be the little person I once was.,even though I am not hugely overweight, I need to loose this for my health and my insecurites about my appearance, I am a very unhappy person when I am not at goal weight.

I am the typical yoe-yoe dieter, i seem to loose around ten kgs every summer to regain most of it back over winter, so even if I get what I want off, it is only half the battle , keeping it off will indeed be the harder part.

It has been hard work, and I have had to really committ myself and not give in to using the food as my comfort, when I feel stressed as I did when Lexie was ill and my daughter that is usually the time I turn to it, I am pleased to say I overcame it this time and hope to in the future., It is habits I want to break forever and replace with a good habit instead, isn't that what Dr Phil always recommends.

As I get older it gets harder to get the weight off and it seems to go on one place mostly around the middle, I am past middle age, but I have the middle aged spread for sure, But hey it is getting less and less.

Forgive my rambling on, but I am excited to get this far so quick, for me it is quite an achievement, I have not even had my daily walk, as Melissa has been sick and we have not been doing the paper round, sometimes I curse that paper round, but deep down I know it is helping me.

It is early days yet, and I really cannot say that I can do this , but I am sure going to give it my best shot this time, I know alot of you have the same problems, so I hope this can inspire some of you, to know also that others are battling the bulge and understand and know how hard it really is.

Thanks for listening.

[KYS]

Congratulations from another yo yo dieter.
Sounds like you are loosing the weight the correct healthy
way.
Keep up the GREAT work.

[caseysmom]

Carole, that is so great and so much to be proud of, it is so hard. If you don't feel like its a HUGE accomplishment go to the grocery store and round up 11 pounds of meat....that is how much is off your body. I bet you feel better. I wish I could get motivated.

[carole]

Oh believe me I do feel a lot better, I have a spring in my step now, lol, I just cannot get overly excited because i have been here so many times in my life, however for once I stablised my weight for two years, true it was not the right weight for me to be at, but still better than re-gaining , which I did two years ago, I lost ten kgs for my niece's wedding then re-gained 8 of them over winter, but kept it at that for the last two years, I just want to get it all off this time and keep it off permanently, an almost impossible task for me, but I am determined more than ever, I have health issues that need addressing and I know loosing it will help those, I am also at high risk for Breast Cancer and being overweight just adds another risk, so that and the fact I am extremely unhappy being anything than at my goal weight, I just have to do it once and for all.

I hope this will help motivate some people because that is what it is all about, until you get motivated and get on the wagon, you just end up on the continual downslide, the vicious cycle rears its ugly head, the more down you feel about your situation the more you eat.

Now i just have to motivate myself to exercise more and tone up, hmm now that will really be an achievement in itself, BTW i do have my son for support, he is in training for his cricket season, and works out at a gym, he tends to gain some weight over the winter too and he has to work hard to loose it again, a familiar pattern I see here with him too, yoe-yoe syndrome which is not a good thing, but he is hoping one day to become a personal Trainer, if and when he puts his mind to it, and he helps me with doing exercises targeting certain muscles, but I still don't do them very often., I am the sort of person that finds exercise hard, due to aching muscles daily having fibromyalgia, but when I actually get in the mood and do them and stick with it I become hopelessly addicted to it, but to me that is far better than my food addiction and one I would rather replace it with.

[AmberLee]

Congratulations! It's tough to do, and I'm proud of you.

[tatsxxx11]

Go Carole!!! We're so proud of you! Keep fighting the good fight!