Reformed compulsive eater
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This is my story
Hi,
I'm Rosey. I'm 33 and have struggled with my weight all of my life having been an overweight child.
I guess my eating style would have been yo-yoing swinging between highly deprivational diets and overeating. The overeating got worse and worse during very difficult times and it became the dominant pattern.
My weight reached 23 stone 7lb almost three years ago and I knew that I had to give up the short term fix diets I'd always gone on. I also knew that I didn't respond well to being put on diets/ being told what to eat and what to do with my body. So I decided to do it my way - to not follow a low calorie misery inducing diet - but to accept that eating generously each day would mean that I lost weight very slowly and it would probably take me years to reach a sensible weight.
So at the moment my weight is 15.13 - over seven and a half stone gone and the majority of that has been lost since Jan 05. I have very long periods where I maintain my weight and this is still progress for me as I've never been able to keep weight I've lost off/ or keep my weight stable at any point in my life.
I am also incredibly active now (having never done any kind of exercise before). I walked every day initially. Then in Jan I joined a gym and have been going three times a week, I swim a few times a week too (a mile a week!) and have just started yoga - something I always felt was off limits to me because of my size. This year I went to China for three weeks and climbed four mountains and the Great Wall and I cried when I got to the top of each as I once got out of puff just going around the corner to post a letter!
I think in some ways it's easier to build a new relationship to something like exercise as I have no baggage with that. However, I struggle with food issues every day but think I'm winning and have developed positive ways of dealing with life without heading for the cake shop! (Although sometimes I still do but I can get over it quickly now).
Because I feel so well and eat well most of the time I am really struggling to find the motivation to lose the rest of the weight I need to. But I would like to eventually reach the 10-11 stone region.
I'm hoping being around you people will be the motivation I need to get myself moving in the right direction once more.
Looking forward to reading some of your stories now!
