Well I got up this morning after a good night's sleep, 12 cups of water yesterday to flush out sodium, and got on the scale to find my weight is UP again. I am back to where I started. Again. Crushed.
I'm not saying I don't know why, exactly. But the thing is, apparently to lose weight and keep it off I have to be 100% perfect ALL THE TIME. And of course I am not. I am nowhere near perfect. So I lose a couple of kilograms or maybe only half a kilo and then I eat a bread roll and a couple of chocolate biscuits and the fat comes straight back. Five years, bouncing back to the same weight over and over.
Do I just give up now? Try to be happy at this weight? Do I go on some crazy punishing diet? Because what I am doing isn't working.
Could anything be more of a first world problem? Oh dear, I have so much tempting food available that I overeat. Gotta laugh, really. Or cry.
I know it's lame Natalie but if you didn't do anything for the past 5 years, your weight problem could be a lot more serious.
ReplyDeleteHave you met with a nutritionist?
Maybe you need a break and see what is really important for you. Happiness come in every size.
I understand you are disappointed, but it's not to be 100 % perfect that is needed, it's to change our life style.
You might be at a cross-road, if you don't do nothing now, you might never have the opportunity of coming back. But if you are determine to continue, those past 5 years were a lesson about what was not working for you.
There is a solution for you, it start by you not giving up.
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
Lyndon B. Johnson
Thanks Richard. Actually I have seen a nutritionist but she was very much into the official food pyramid with far more bread and cereal etc than I am comfortable with. And also "low fat" labelled products that I don't consider real food. I've got a university Nutrition course textbook that I should finish reading to balance all the other contradictory stuff I've heard.
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