Sunday, August 29, 2010

On the road to weight loss..

That was two weeks ago, the hardest part has been the first five days.. and I believe the the appetite suppressant and meal replacements affected my sleep I could not fall asleep until about one o'clock in the morning, which made me very tired which made me hungry!!! so I thought I can do it without them, sleep is necessary. But the hardest part was when my son got some hot chips and I had to drive along, the smell wow I really wanted one!! I had to grip the steering wheel as hard as I could as to not just reach over for a handful. BUT I DID IT!! I concurred the horrible monster inside 'The Greed'.
So I have been forcing myself to eat breakfast, just fruit for now it's all I can manage after 15 or so years of no breakfast, I have a large salad for lunch plenty of water and a sensible dinner with rice substituted for potato,(I also have cut out bread and pasta) and I have gotten down to 88kgs fingers crossed that I can keep this up!!!, but it hasn't been all plan sailing, getting some what over my obvious food addiction has and still is very hard, its up there with giving up smoking, which I did for about 4months that was when the weight started to pile on so I took it up again, but It is on the agenda one addiction at a time!!! and I have had a few relapses, on the tired week I did go to the shop and buy corn chips and humus... and just yesterday chocolate biscuits I was offered when visiting (bad becky)... don't people understand to offer a chocy bicky to a food addict is the same as giving a former smoker a cigarette.. it is that serious, when you give up smoking everyone goes out of their way to support you, smokers don't smoke in front of you etc.. but when your giving up 'junk' food nobody takes their chocolate biscuits away, or those skinny people just pig out in front of you!!! Being overweight is as bad for your health as smoking so lets support people who not only want to give up smoking, but those of us tiring to give up bad eating habits!

How to Start....

I recently went to the doctor, and to my horror he weighed me... I was 92kgs!!!!! I was sooo shocked and completely horrified that I instantly went to the health food shop and bought a meal replacement and appetite suppressants.
Before my youngest child was born (4 Years ago) I only weight 63kgs, I started to Analise myself what had I done to get so big, I did know that I had had to buy new jeans twice because I didn't fit my size 10s anymore, but I think a part of me was in denile, I am now a size 14 which are tight... The hardest part about changing my eating habits isn't the restrictions or portion sizes I can deal with that its the pure greed, I know I'm full I just want that yummy cupcake because I'm greedy, how do you lose weight and suppress the mental hungry-ness?? (or lack of will power)??

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I am a thirty-one year old single mother of two, a ten year-old boy and a four-yearold girl. I am the youngest of six girls, trying to work out how to lose weight so I can be a better parent for my kids.