OK, so here I am... ready and willing to start dieting (again), but this time it's GOT to be different! I can't yo-yo diet anymore, I've two babies who need me to be slim - they don't want a fat mum waddling down the school path, puffing and panting at 3.15pm and I don't want them to grow up with the same food issues their mummy has. This time it's got to be a life long change and I have to control it.
It's strange writing down that I have to be in control of this, as I am a control freak to the very core - apart from where food is concerned. When food comes into the equation it controls me. That's all about to change!
A new, but already very dear, friend of mine has recently told me about the Dukan Diet and I'm going to achieve my weight loss aims with it - I KNOW I AM! My book arrived today, so I have everything I need to suceed: instructions and me.
No more am I blaming my husband for buying the biscuits, it's only me that eats them afterall. No more am I blaming my upbringing and my overweight family, only I put things in my mouth and sit on my fat arse (soon to be less fat and eventually to be fit). Now is my personal revolution, but to start it I think I need to go back in time...
I've always been big. As a child I was "affectionately" picked on by the cool kids, who I hasten to add are now seriously uncool, and called "whole lotta woman" and such like. Amazingly, now when I look back on those school photos I wonder what on earth was going through my head: I was a child with a child's body, end of! I had a lot of success slimming when I was 17 and got to my goal weight (which for my height and build is 11 stone 7lb) and was my Slimming World's class "Slimmer of the Year". The weight stayed off for a few years while I focussed on sport at school and then boys and beer at uni (money was spent on god awful alocholic concoctions rather than food so for the first year I stayed lovely and slim), then I started to put the weight back on. Pretty much since then I have been a yo-yo dieter. I obsess about it, lose a stone, get bored of being obsessed about it and "cheat".
I'm now at the heaviest I have ever been and in a few days' time when I am feeling a bit braver I will share the embarrassing truth regarding my lard arse, as only by "outing" myself can I move forward. I am hoping the Dukan diet will be my life changing eating plan and will share more about that as and when I learn it! The book is sat next to me to pick up, read and digest ready for Monday's weekly food shop.
So, here goes... I'm just dippping my toe in the water at the moment, but am soon going to be diving head first in. Wish me luck!
You have the key factor in this diet: motivation. Together, we can get to a weight WE want and WE feel happy with, I know we can do this! It's a huge lifestyle change, and we will no doubt have days when we struggle, but hopefully we can spur each other on! I think writing it all down is a big help too, honesty is the ONLY policy!
ReplyDeleteGood luck to us both, we'll be skinny minnies in no time ;) xxxx