I have been fat for 99% of my life.
That is a very hard thing to admit.
For the longest time I convinced myself that it was ok, that curvy was sexy, that I wasn't "that" fat, I figured since I still got laid it couldn't be that bad.
But I hated secretly hated myself and disguised it with a very fake sense of good self esteem. I was the big girl who had a million friends and pretended she didn't care.
Then through a very odd situation I met a guy who was in the testing phase of a new diet program. I finally had made the decision to get thinner and get healthy and I gave him $200 I didn't really have as a deposit on my success. He promised I would get it back if I hit 80% of my goal. I started immediately, eating healthy, working out, working on my issues, really taking a long hard look at my life and making positive changes. This program works really closely with a Dr, Nutritionist and personal trainer all over the phone, so I was constantly being monitored and things were adjusted on a daily basis in response to what was going on in my life. I learned to eat for fuel instead of for pleasure, and to take control over my eating. And it worked. The weight started melting off. I weighed myself every day and was disappointed if I didn't see a pound a day coming off. It took 4 months to get thin enough to dance.
Then I met my husband within a few weeks of working at my first club.
He is a bigger guy and loves really nice restaurants and good wine.
I maintained control for a while and kept the weight off through balancing my diet and exercise like the program had taught me.
Then I got pregnant
And all bets were off
I did exactly what you are not supposed to do when you get pregnant.
I ate anything and everything I wanted and didn't exercise at all
Well surprise surprise I gained ALL the weight back I lost plus some by the time I delivered my beautiful princess.
She is an amazing little baby, perfect in every way. And if I needed to gain all that weight back to make her that way, so be it.
But now its time to get back on the health and fitness train to skinnytown
I contacted the Dr and got back on the program and I start tomorrow.
It feels like such a daunting task.
I know it needs to be done but its so much more fun eating all this fattening foodEating for fuel and not pleasure again will be challenging now that I’m married. He has promised to be supportive though, and I know he secretly wants his thin wife back.
I start with a 3 day veggie and fruit detox.
Everyone knows I’m breastfeeding so that’s being taken into consideration and I won't be able to cut serious calories like I did before but they promise it will be easier this time, so we'll see.
Anyone else starting to diet or successfully currently dieting? Want to be support buddies?
Any tips are welcomed! Any advice from women who had babies and lost weight would be appreciated.




Eating for fuel and not pleasure again will be challenging now that I’m married. He has promised to be supportive though, and I know he secretly wants his thin wife back. 

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