6 months into it...
It`s mid November, which means that it`s been 6 months since I changed my diet and lifestyle. My journey actually began in January, but after it was very tentative and slow initially, I decided to really give it a go mid May.
If anyone had given me the plan then and told me: "Follow it, and you will lose 20lb in 6 months!" I might well have rejected it.
The programme sounds restrictive (it is, but it doesn`t feel it because I no longer want the things I restrict as much), suggests starvation (I eat much less, but that`s fine because my appetite has diminished greatly!) and the excercise too tiring and time consuming (It`s not because I`ve now got boundless energy AND motivation!). In comparison to the programme, the weight loss sounds meager and just not worth it. I wasn`t as unhappy being large as I envisaged myself following a plan like this!
But I`ve now done it and lost 20lb. When I first decided on what to do it was the thought that I may not stick to it anyway which took the huge sense of committment, yes, even fear, away from me and made me just start.
It then was the (initially very fast!) weight loss success, sense of fullness with much less food, disappearance of cravings and increase of running speed which kept me going.
... and suddenly, it became a lifestyle.
There`s no going back. It`s not a diet which I`ll stop once I have reached target. No, that`s it. That`s how I eat and how I excercise now.
I do not long for the things (e.g. quantities of things!) which are no longer included in my lifestyle. I have attained something much better in turn: I`m finally slim, and although I eventually want to lose a few more lbs, the urgency has gone as I already love the way I look!
Hang in there girls, even if it`s hard at times! You`ll come out at the other end, look back and be ever so glad that you stuck with it!
Stella
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