Hello everyone! My name is Yvonne and I'm 18.
I've decided to start. Yet again.
Well, I was never a skinny child, but never overweight either. I was just normal.
Till highschool. That year my parents separated, I moved away with mom, started eating unhealthy stuff in school and also stress overeating at home. During that first year I moved from normal to just slightly overweight. And then begins the vicious circle. I started dieting with a fairly overweight friend, and dieting consisted of eating very small amounts of food, pretty much starving ourselves. A first few pounds came of and then I started counting calories and eating 1200-1300kCal a day, sometimes even lower. And within two months I've lost about 15lbs. I was sixteen than and I weighted the same I weighted when I was 10-11 years old. 1200kCal per day was not nearly enough for me since I am 5'9˝ and back then I was an active basketball player. Still, I wasnt skinny, I think I've lost quite a bit muscle mass back then and I still was not satisfied with how I looked in the mirror.
And then, as you can guess, the jo-jo efect did its magic, and I started binging 2-3 times a week and it two years my weight went 50lbs up.
Thank God, I then gathered enough strenght and went from my heaviest of 187lbs to 167lbs and it took me 7 months of going slow and steady.
That was in April and since then I am sliping back into the binging behaviour and I believe I've gained about 5lbs back.
Its time to stop it! So I've read a great book, Tom Venuto's Body Fat Solution and I am going to start following that program, not as a diet but as a lifestyle. I just have to do it now, my self esteem is starting to suffer, and also my body, I am 5'9¨but I am small-framed and already about 170 my knees begin to ache and my blood presure is elevated which is not normal for an 18year-old. So I have to do this.
I am looking forward to chating with you all and I promise I'm going to be an active forum member, I need support and I am ready to give some!
Oh and I plan to start seriously in about a month cause I first want to try to control my binges and come back to 'normal' and then change my lifestyle slowly, I have done it fast many times, and it was very short-lived, so this time I'm all slow and steady!
to 3FC Yvonne!
Dhani