Posts by jenny12386

I'm a little size orrianted.  I've got quite a few UK size 14 clothes that I want to fit into comfortablely again.  At the moment I'm wearing UK size 18.  I was a UK size 14 when I was 18 and it was when I was at my happiest and fittest.  Think I'd be too skinny at a 12.  I have hips and I'm proud of them.

If you just stop one young teen from going down the ED rout, your rant will defo of been worth it.  Rock on girl.

I love seeing people on here who have managed to lose the weight and have kept it off.  It's fantastic motivation.  However it drives me nuts when there are teen on here who are stick thing going, 'I want to lose 10 pounds'.  I just want to slap them stupid for being so ridicules.

Hey, welcome to CC.

I got a shock as well when I started a year ago of how much I acturly ait.  I'm on my next serious attempt to lose weight.  I've maintaned for the last 8 months or so and want to lose another stone by Christmas/New Year which could be interesting. 

What I'm doing that's different from last time is planning my meals in advance.  Tomorrow I know exactly what I'm going to eat and how many cals it's going to use.  I'm in my first week and it's going well so far.

Keep making the healthy choices, but also think about what you're eating.  One you've been doing this a while you'll get a good idea how many cals are in each thing.  For me I was suprised how much cals where in rice.  Yes, it's all healthy stuff, but it is fairly high in cals. 

Your first 2-3 weeks are going to be the hardest, but when you get past them, it starts getting easy.

When I reach my ideal weight I would....

feel like I have beaten the odds.  My mum is fat and my sister's weight goes up and down all the time. 
I will feel like I can dress in whatever I like and still look and feel good.
I will be able to go climbing and not have to come off an overhang because my body is too heavy to pull up.
I won't feel fat when I'm among a group of friends.

Although I don't agree entirly with Samantha, she has a good point.  Yes, we do need to excersice as well as a healthy diet, but your body will tell you when it's had enough as well. 

Take it slow to begin with.  After an injory it's hard to get back into the swing of things.  Start off with just some light excersice, enough to make you feel good about yourself but not so much that you're putting yourself in pain.  Even if you just do a fast walk around the block you've done something to be proud of. 

For me it's refusing to get the bus or a taxi from town to work no matter how crap the weather or how tired I am.  It's about a mile.  Also, I never walk up the slope on the West side of the building, I always take the stairs on the East side.  If there's no hurry to be somewhere in the building, I'll take the stairs, even to the third level (that's quite alot of stairs.  I often check protected fire roots are clear, so that's more stairs. 

I don't do alot of exersice these days, but when I'm at work I stay very active. 

Basically, as your body gets smaller, it needs less food to run, so your matabilism drops.  It means you're doing well, although it does make those last few pounds really anoying.

I let myself slip for about a month and was scared to step on the scales incase I was at 14+ stone again, but when I steped on the scales before the next lot of 6 weeks cal counting, I was suprised to find I'm only put 4bls back on and that was even after a fairly big meal.  I'm well on track again to losing another stone over the next 6 weeks.

So basically, yes, I'm always scared the weight's going to come back.  At the moment I love how my feet don't hurt as much when I've fin a week on the cafe, I love how my climbing harness is starting to get on the big side for me and that I'll need to get a new one by the end of the summer (eyeing a nice black-dimond up), and I love how I'm pulling myself up climbs and pulling off moves that I never thought I'd be able to do.

Although that fear is always going to be there in the back, I think it's best just not to think about it all the time.  Don't beat yourself up because you caved to the chocolate cookie with your cup of hot chocolate or beat yaself up because you gained a couple of bls. I think we all feel like we're fatter than we are sometimes aswell.  Sometimes feels good to put a pair of jeans on that you've not worn in a while to see how much room you've got in them.  I'm at the point where my 18s are falling off me but my 16s are a little tight (UK sizes).

I'll be the first to say it.  You're stunning and you defo don't need to lose any weight.  You've got a body that me and many of the other girls on here would kill for.  Just focus on keeping your fitness up and maintaining.  I'm scared that if you get any skinnier you'll just end up feeling ill and tired all the time.

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as a rule I only plan to get drunk on my birthday.  this will be the one day where I don't even think about cals, although I won't be going over the top.  My boyfriend has last say on things.  That way I won't be going over the top.

Oh well...  Still doesn't stop me attacking the ice at work.  Can get seriously hot back there.

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lmao!!!  Sorry, can't help it.  It's funny but it's not...  Least you didn't make as much of a mess as my mum did.  Happened when my dad first went into hospic and she was stressed as hell.  Anyway, she was pulling up on the drive and instead of pushing the brake she pushed the the gas.  God knows what she was thinking, but she swirved and hit the front of the house.  All my dad could say when he was well enough to tease her was, 'why couldn't you hit the garage door, I wanted a new garage door'.  Also on top of that the dog who was about 6 months at the time was too scared to go anywhere near the window for months.

Don't worry too much about it.  Everyone's alowed to fall off the wagon once and a while.  what you have to learn to do is do it in moderation.  if I know I'm going to have a big naughty meal I have something painfully healthy for lunch and don't snack through the day.  The only exception to that rule will be my birthday in a couple of weeks although I've got the anoying feeling my boyfriend's going to be controling what  I eat to an extent.  Probs limit me to my bit of chocolate cake and few vods and coke with my pizza.