Healthy Curve - New Group Starting

I started this group on Facebook and am looking to perhaps start it here!  Perhaps you would be interested in joining?

Being healthy and being thin are not one and the same. Some "super models" go to extreme lengths to look the way that they do, often taking on ridiculous diets in order to achieve that certain physique. Healthy Curve is all about becoming healthier without going to the extreme. It's about loving your body no matter what you look like, but recognising that being healthy can lead to a happier, longer and more fulfilling life. It's not only about the physical, it's also about emotional health. Healthy Curve is about supporting others as they struggle to find that balance, mentally and physically. Healthy curve is about addressing these self-love issues with long-term goals.  It's about finding the inner sexy and flaunting it...it's about supporting those that find it hard along the way...it's about trying to fix this unhealthy guilt that we attach to eating and enjoying great food...just learning how to enjoy it differently. If you're all for taking on a new Healthy Curve, please, feel free to join.

Let me introduce myself then!

I joined CC about a month ago and I've lost 4.1 Kg (9lbs) since.  I try to lose on average a kilo a week.  It's not easy though...my real vice?  I love to cook, I love to bake...and I believe in treating myself. 

I've combated this by just feeding my partner more and exercising portion control, but it is hard.  In the last year and a half I have lost approximately 25 Kg (55 lbs) and my aim is to lose another 15-20 Kg.  It seems so far away, but I think I can do it...hell, I know I can do it...it may take a long time though, but as long as I know I'm not alone, then I am sure I'll get there eventually!

I have had an unhealthy relationship with food, associating guilt with eating...it has been a comfort food thing, and I associate many happy moments with eating, but then have feelings of guilt afterwards. 

Looking at my old highschool pictures really jolted me.  I think to myself, "how did I let myself get to this point?"...Now I need to think..."What must I do to get back to the point?"

A real catalyst in all this is the fact that I want to start a family soon, and this is a reason why I want to do this healthily, not just to look great in photos or get back into old clothes.  I want to raise my baby differently than how I was, and I know a lot will stem from example.  So I need to start now, so that my body will be healthy enough to have a healthy baby, and so that I can get into the habit of being healthy so that I can impart this to my children.

I hope to share recipes, healthy links and random information with everyone.  I also hope that those that join will do the same!

Let's join together on a new Healthy Curve, by loving our curves!

sounds good. I'd like to join. I have lost 36lbs after having my 3rd son. I'm on facebook too.

That's fantastic!  Feel free to look up the Healthy Curve group on facebook and I can invite you to it!  I have lots of videos and recipe links there.

And congrats on the losing of 36lbs.  What method of weight loss has helped you the most?