Thanks guys , seriously but I am beset with setbacks. I live at home, and though mother does try to help by getting the things I ask for which I keep in a separate cupboard of my own, she then goes and buys things for her and father that I shouldn't eat, because they do like them, and I can't expect them to have my own diet even though they do need to lose weight.
Sadly have no pictures of me not being fat, because I've ALWAYS been fat, ever since I was a small child. I am not ashamed to admit I partially blame my parents for my weight problems. All my life they've served up large portions of the size my dad eats, and not of healthy food either. I've always struggled with my weight and until I can get a place of my own, or they die
, I will always struggle with it.
This only happens at weekend and some evenings when at home. I work in a warehouse, and we have a kitchen/dining area with microwaves , but no actual canteen serving food, so you have to bring your own food. This works great for me, because I pack cooked skinless chicken breast and a big bag of mixed veg to steam in the microwave, and a low fat yoghurt, some fruit and a can of tuna for extra protien.
I often have home made vegetable soup when I get home ( no potatoes, a lot of beans in it, and leeks and carrots and tomatoes ) but it's hard not to have bread with it, though I really try
I walk 5 miles home every day from work, and also go to the gym at least twice a week, though I intend to increase that and have also started doing a couple of sessions using one of those vibrating wobbleplate things, it's a little intense exercise class at a place near where I live.
So you see it's being at home surrounded by the things my parents like to eat that does me in. I can't afford to move out as my job is low paid and have no on to move in with as my friends are al married now and hardly need me lurking about like a freaky lodger.
I start out fine in the mornings with a bowl of porridge ( made with part water part semi skimmed goats milk ) topped with mixed seeds, or sometimes scrambled eggs like today , but if I'm at home after that ( weekends ) it tends to go downhill , or when I get back from work. Mostly it's weekends though as when I get home from work I often either go to the gym, or simply go to sleep .
My weightloss has halted and I'm at 180 lbs now and I'm really disheartened.