Well, I'm afraid that I really wouldn't be too surprised.
I put on a ton of weight over my 2nd pregnancy (I wrote some of this in my wedding thread) & over the years since then I've done diets diet pills, exercise machines & 'eating healthy' 'till they came out my ears & I never lost more than a few pounds, which usually came back on again soon enough. I'm very physically active, even since I broke my back & have had to give up hiking & we had to sell the canoe
I'm still, nevertheless, very active, even just around the place here, let alone swimming & the like and I've got enough self discipline that I could manufacture & sell the stuff plus I eat less & more healthily than just about anyone I know. I don't even like chocolates (yuck) & sweet things in general just don't do it for me. & yet I've always stayed over weight. I could never figure it & in the end just resigned myself to the whole thing, figured it was probably my metabolism or the epilepsy meds (which all slow metabolism), especially since I'm nearly 40 now so....
But, after John proposed I decided I had better really knuckle down, bought a ton of diet pills, cut my diet to absolute healthy minimum & started rowing 1 1/2 - 2 hours a night five nights a week. Lost a few mils... then stopped.
Oh well, a platau I thought, just keep at it, no pain no gain & all, it'll start dropping again... No go. I got fitter, which was cool, but i didn't loose any more size (I always measure size, not weight, weight is too unreliable & muscle tissue weighs more than fat anywhow so it can be quite misleading).
A whole lot of nothing. & then i put my head through that door, buggered my neck & had to stop rowing. plus I decided to just chuck the whole lot of conventional 'diet wisdom' & start paying attention to me!
I've dropped 4 dress sizes so far, almost completely effortlessly & without having to 'strain against temptation' or any of that crap. The weight has come off quickly ( much more so than dieticians tell you to expect ) & easily.
& without any more exercise than I would normally get working around the property here. & I'm still losing.
All I had to do was identify which foods were a problem for
me personaly. Forget what dieticians & diet companies said. What actually effected
me.
& I chucked the whole notion of 'can & cannot eat' & finally figured out, eventually & despite what the diet books all said, that I was a grown-up, quite well aware of consequences, & was quite capable of making decisions about what I'd eat at any particular time
at that time.
I eat what I want, when I want. & I make my decisions at the time & if I choose to eat something that I know will have a 'negative effect' then i don't beat myself up about it. Just take that into account when deciding what i fancy for my next few meals.
To h*ll with 'no pain - no gain', I've got weight falling off me that I thought i was stuck with for life & it's taken almost no effort at all.
& Now I'm thinking of writing a diet book of my own. One that reminds people that they don't need to do what anyone else says, or what worked for someone else. Rather how to identify what works for them.
All that sh*t the diet industry AND medical profession has been feeding us all these years is just exactly that.
& I'm still losing!
I've lost 4 dress sizes already & can squeeze into the next one down... although I'm fond of breathing so I don't think I'll start wearing that yet
easy
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