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Day one went well I had special k cereal for breakfast, a weight watchers pizza with salad for lunch and a sandwich at work.  Lately I’d fallen back into the habit of eating chocolate or something unhealthy every day but I haven’t today which is great

I forgot to say in my last blog that my reward for completing my challenge will be to get my hair dyed. I’ve wanted it a reddish/brown colour for a while but at the moment just don’t have the confidence to pull it off. I used to get my hair dyed a lot and loved it and thought I looked a lot better with it done, so that will be a really good focus for me when I am 209lbs I will feel much more comfortable with myself as I remember dying my hair at that size.

I definitely think this challenge will be good for me! x

I’ve lost 16.5lbs so far but it’s taken a long time to get here! I need a real achievable focus in my life. Soooo…

12 week challenge:

I want to go from 236.5lbs to 209lbs for 14th August.

I have set some mini goals along the way to aim for:

228lbs (my 10% weight loss goal) in time for my birthday 12th June

223lbs by the 3rd July

215.5lbs (my 15% weight loss goal) by the 24th July

and eventually 209lbs by 14th August

I intend to reach my goal by eating 3 smaller portioned meals per day, drinking more water, and starting to incorporate some exercise. Over the next 3 weeks I will start with 2x 20 minute sessions each week. Then after my birthday, I will start swimming once or twice a week as well.

I will also blog every day so I feel somewhat accountable for my choices!

Really feeling good about this

When this challenge is complete I will set myself a 5 or 6 week challenge to get to 196lbs - out of the 200lb region for the first time in about 5 years! and out of obesity I don’t take BMI too seriously, but I acknowledge it as the medical way to classify obesity, and at 196lbs I move into the overweight region. THAT will be an amazing achievement!

Sooooo happy buddyslim is still here I’d miss it and all you lovely people so much!

Well, I can’t believe this is happening! I will miss BS dearly but am moving on to Sparkpeople.  Find me over there, my username is Louxx1989

Bye buddyslim x

Positivity is just oooozing out of me at the moment haha. I feel amazing! Honestly for anyone out there who has been feeling lost and miserable about their weight it is INCREDIBLE what a few days of healthy eating can do for you!

Today I weighed in at 16st 13lbs (237lbs). There are 14lbs in a “stone” and having weighed well over 17stone for the past 3 years it is a brilliant feeling to drop out of that and feel confident that I’ll never see a “17″ on the scales again!!

Despite using this technique in the past I really feel I’m more in tune with it at the moment. REALLY visualise yourself at your goal weight and imagine how much more comfortable you would feel in your own body. I’ve got myself to a position where I can’t imagine myself failing at all. I KNOW I will get where I want to be!

I know different things work for different people but I really can’t rave enough about  classic healthy eating! I’m still eating the foods I love just much less of them and somehow I’m managing to control my compulsive eating by using the visualisation technique.

I even went to an all you can eat oriental buffet the other day! Ate foods I love but in moderation and have lost weight again

Hope everyone else is loving life at the moment, 2nd mini goal achieved!

So a couple of weeks before Christmas I weighed 253lbs.  This morning I weighed in at 241lbs. 12lbs gone forever It’s taken a while to lose that 12lbs but it’s a loss and I’m proud of myself for it.

I have really stepped things up in the last couple of weeks, and now I will step it up a bit more and get more exercise into my lifestyle. On every weight loss attempt in the past couple of years I get stuck around the 10lb mark and just start gaining or maintaining so I think exercise will really help me push past that block.

Dietwise I am choosing healthy options for meals, cutting down on portion sizes and avoiding snacking.  I am also trying to eat more natural foods and drink less artificial sweetners etc aiming to take in much more water.

A challenge I have set for myself so far is to have no unhealthy snacks - chocolate, crisps, cake, biscuits, ice cream etc etc - until I go to Cardiff for a couple of days on April 21st where I will let myself have dessert at a restaurant, and treat myself to a little Easter egg this year. For the past couple of years I have gone without an Easter egg and it hasn’t done me any favours anyway so I don’t want to keep depriving myself of such things.

The reason I am going without these snacks for a while is to break the habit of eating them every day.  When I reach a healthy weight I wouldn’t want to be having more than 2 snacks a week and I’ve been used to well over 2 a day in the past couple of years!

After the little treats I mentioned I will set another challenge of 2 or 3 weeks without them again and then slowly incorporate them back into a healthy lifestyle.

How is everyone’s Monday? x

Been a crazy couple of months. Moved house and got a new job but things are settling down a bit now and I figure this is a good a time as ever to make a fresh start

Joined a binge eating recovery forum last night so I will hopefully get some direct support with that there and I really want to make more use of the recipe section on this site so I can start getting into healthy cooking.

I’ll be spending far less time sitting around the house in my new job which will keep me away from the snacks and been watching some tv shows and documentaries on youtube about obesity, weight loss and all the nasty stuff that goes into a lot of foods which is a massive motivation for me to sort things out.

Thank you to all my lovely buddies who continue to support me even though I drop off from this site so often! It’s difficult living in another time zone to keep on top of the forum chats etc but I hope to rebuild my presence on the blogs and spread the love.

Hope you are all well x

I wondered if anyone has managed to overcome this compulsive eating pattern and how you managed to break it. It is killing me!

I find it difficut to understand why I binge eat really. I think maybe I’m just greedy and lazy because as dig as I deep I can’t find all that many reasons behind it.

My only break through has been that just before I started getting really big I went through a really strange time. It was extreme anxiety issues and brought me down for quite a while to be honest. Sometimes I wonder if being overweight gives me something else to focus on rather than all the crap that was bothering me back then. Other times I wonder if I’m just having difficulty understanding what a real lifestyle change means.

I am learning new things though.

I realised that giving up unhealthy snacking isn’t really giving up, it’s gaining something. I’m giving up so much more by filling myself with this junk. My confidence, self esteem, good body image, nice clothes, good health.

I am sacrificing so much more by staying this way.

But I need help.

Has anyone overcome this? It’s the only thing that stops me.

I know only I can change myself, but it helps when I speak to you guys about it. It’s nice to not feel so alone all the time.

I haven’t been on here in a while.  Been so busy looking for a job and been having so many problems with my car I was struggling to get the car into 1st, 2nd and reverse gears and had an oil leak so had to book it in at the garage. £150 ($230ish according to x-rates currency calculator). I went to my boyfriend’s house for the weekend to celebrate our anniversary and when I was about to leave and travel home on Sunday night the car wouldn’t start called the RAC (my break down service) and they started it up and advised me to take it to a mechanic. So I stayed another night there. The next morning I jump in my car to take it to the mechanic and once again it won’t start! This time being a weekday morning I had to wait over 2.5 hours for them because they had to deal with priority cases 1st i.e. people stuck in more dangerous places than the residential street my car was safely parked in.

FINALLY got it in at the garage, explained clearly that I don’t live in that city so would REALLY appreciate getting it back the same day if at all possible. So what do they do? Look at it 5 minutes before closing time. Grrrr! That meant getting the train back. I am a total public transport snob now that I have my car lol, I’m too used to the convenience. Was nice and quiet on the train though so it turned out to be quite relaxing

They have a lot of work on at the moment so have only got to my car today. I should get it back tomorrow and then my stresses will be over. Other than having to borrow £400 ($617ish) from my mum to get it fixed I need a proper job!! I work 15 hours a week at the moment on crap money and that is reducing to 8 hours soon! Argh it’s a nightmare!!

Anyway my diet and exercise programme was completely shoved aside through all this. I realise how easy I find it to let these situations become an excuse and that is something I majorly need to work on.

I was tempted to leave my tracker alone and just start updating it when I lost more weight but I will admit it. I put on 4lbs these past couple of weeks. I mayaswell have it out there in the open so I can feel happier when I lose those lbs again.

Back off chocolate. Back into healthy eating. Back into exercise. I won’t let a couple of bad weeks define how this all turns out.

“If at first you don’t succeed, dust yourself off and try again”

Hope everyone is well x

Yay! reached, and actually surpassed, my first mini goal this week! Here in England we use “stones” and lbs rather than just lbs. Maybe we like to look at smaller numbers - 17 stone 8.5lbs looks less intimidating than 246.5lbs lol. There are 14lbs to a stone, so obviously 7lbs to a half stone. I started with 7.5stone to lose in total so I am making each of my mini goals half stone losses. I now have just under 7 stone to lose

6lbs to my next half stone loss then. Would be great to lose that in the next 2 weeks but I’ll be very happy to lose it in 3 too.

My plan is to boost up the exercise side of things. Nancy has suggested I take part in some fitness challenges so I am going to have a good look around the Wildcat team threads (which I am now a part of by the way, never actually blogged about that lol) and start on something this week. It will make losing weight so much easier and it would be great to start toning up a bit at this stage as well.

If you guys have any motivational tips on getting into exercise they would be much appreciated. I’m taking part in the break barriers challenge and I am actually considering changing my goal to an exercise related one because I feel like I have the chocolate/snacking issue under control these days.

Anyways have a great day everyone! Let’s keep reaching these goals! x

I would suggest that this blog is the last mention of the pathetic freak who has nothing better to do with their sad life than create profiles just to “harrass” people. If you get a message from them don’t even read it or if you do don’t reply just report them. This is how you deal with children, they get bored eventually.

As for her strange obsession with Nancy, it is clearly just based on jealousy! Everyone here knows how encouraging and beautiful Nancy is and that’s the most important thing. It’s not like this person is actually going to change anyone’s opinion on that matter.

Anyway hope you all have a nice day and this can go back to being what it’s all about. A weight loss social networking site!