winter, moving away from home and chocolate - HELP!
In the past I've been a very self motivated and steady loser (in the good sense!) and have enjoyed a healthy relationship with food and exercise, and was making slow but sure progress.
Unfortunately, two things happened - one, I moved to Manchester for university and live in student accommodation in the heart of the city. Two, winter came. I have clinical depression and things like big changes and winter can trigger bad depressive phases, which is what's happened. I missed my home, my beautiful little city of Chester, my cats, my mum, and of course I had to freeze my gym membership because I'd moved away. I moved to Manchester because I'd gotten a place at its very prestigious university, which I wasn't going to pass over because I hated the city (which I do).
So, for those reasons and probably others, I started to use chocolate and things like cheese as a comfort blanket. This was three months ago - I've arrived home and my mum admitted today that she noticed I've put on weight. I really don't know how to get a lid on this - I feel like my solid grasp has slipped and I've lost control and motivation. I have no idea what I weigh now as my scale battery has died and I keep forgetting to get a new one, but I'm not expecting that number to be pretty. I did join a cheap gym in Manchester and I kept up my running for a while, I listed heavier than ever and beat my personal record on the treadmill - but it was useless as I was eating it back on again in the evenings, watching movies with my friends and eating chocolates and biscuits. I feel so awful and now that I've got space to breathe from my studies in the christmas break, I've realised what's happened to me. I really, really want to make this work again and lose the weight. When I think back to how I was in the summer, motivated, gong to the gym, losing 1-2 lbs every week and with a will of iron.. how can I get it back?
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