As you know, I’ve been on some kind of diet, and yo yo dieted most of my adult life. Here is my “diet” time line!
15 years old, I was 11stone, overweight and miserable and so I started my first diet. I got my weight to 9stone 4lbs, maintained at this weight for about two years.
17 years old, weight was creeping back on, so back on a diet for me. My weight went up to about 10stone, which meant I had to start buying bigger sizes, 14/16′s. By the time I fell pregnant with Robyn, I was just over 10stone, I was 19. I put on weight throughout my pregnancy and was back to 11 stone after having Robyn (now 20).
I fell pregnant with Holly when Robyn was 9 months old, and I hadn’t shifted any weight after unsuccesfully yo yo dieting. After Holly was born I weighed a whopping 13 stone. 3 months after she was born I was back on a diet (just turned 22). This time Scottish Slimmers. It took me about a year to lose the weight and get down to 9 stone.
So now I’m 23 and for 8 years have been dieting. I managed to keep the weight off for about a year (24), and then once again, clothes became tighter and then bigger sizes would be bought again. I spent a lot of time yo yo dieting, so weight would fluntuate between 9 and half stone to 10 and a half stone.
By the time I was 25 it had gone back to 11 stone, right back to where I was at age 15. So January 2006 and I was on a serious diet again. I used the principles I had learned at Scottish Slimmers, cut out the junk and got walking most lunchtimes. By April I was under 10stone, and by my 27th birthday I was back to 9 stone.
Between my 27th and 29th birthday, I definitely had more control over junk food and emotional eating, however the weight did start to creep back on, not much, but I started to recognise what was happening. October 2009 I was eating really healthy (in my quest to get back to 9 stone, I was 9st 10lbs). I was also working out like a demon. However, although I was eating healthy I was OVEREATING, hence I was putting on weight. I was really disheartened, as it wasn’t unitl I’d let me weight get back up to near 11 stone that I was prepared to cut the junkfood and really assess the food I was puting in my mouth.
My 30th birthday was also fast approaching and I was determined that I would be looking my best for my 30th. I did a vast amount of research on losing weight/fat loss, and embarked on a calorie controlled diet. I worked out how many calories I would need to be consuming for fat loss, downloaded a free app for my iphone that in under 5 minutes I could plan what I was eating for the day, and know exactly how many calories I would be consuming, and as they say the rest is history.
