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| totallycoverme |
I have lost 3lbs since Tuesday 
That is a bit of a breakthrough but not the one I'm refering to in the title of this blog (I have a long way to go as I started at 15st and I want to get to 13.5st and see how I want to take it from there but yay, 3lbs in 5 days is a good start)
But yeah, the actually "bit of a breakthrough" that I feel I have had is as follows:
Something dawned on me the other day. Every time in my life when I have been trying to lose weight, whether that be quickly or gradually, "healthily" or crash diet, there's always been some knob end to tell me I'm doing it wrong.
So when I lost 7lbs in a week with meal replacements and diet tablets some people told me I was doing it too fast. When I just tried cutting out the snacks and replacing my usual choices with "healthier options" and losing no weight from it at all, people told me that I was still eating too much and not trying hard enough.
On the flip side I have also followed a diet prescribed for me under NHS supervision. It made me dizzy but I was advised to continue.
If I calorie count I get moaned at for eating the "wrong" things as part of that. If I am choosy about which foods I eat I get asked if I'f calorie counting.
Ultimately, no matter what I do, someone always tells me I'm doing it wrong.
Well yannow what, I'm happy to hear advice, nowt wrong with that. But on the grand scheme of things I am closing my ears to anybody who wants to tell me I'm doing it wrong or that I should be doing X instead of Y. I'm happy to hear hints and tips on how to improve but if someone turns round and says that my choice of weightloss method is too crashy/controvercial/unhealthy/slow/lazy etc etc etc then I ain't listening.
It's the same with a lot of things in life: career, relationships, money, philosophy, lifestyle choice...EVERYTHING! There is always someone to tell you you're doing it wrong no matter what you do.
So yeah. I have a lot of stuff going on at the moment and there are a lot of things that I want to achieve and perhaps ironically and very untypically of me, I am closing my ears and listening to ME as my primary person to go to (well, Master is my primary person to go to but in terms of me as an individual then largely, my previous statement still stands).
I'm an intelligent, capable person who has life experience. I'm fed up of feeling that I should listen to other people before I listen to me. Fuck that shit. I know me and what I want and how I want to do it better than anyone else in the whole world.
Yeah man That feels better xx
| 15 Jan 12, 5:44 PM mia  UK(M), 4 yrs        |
Happy dance. Do what makes you happy my love, then you can't be doing it wrong. x Now where were we? Ah, yes - abject humiliation! | ||
| 15 Jan 12, 5:49 PM totallycoverme UK(M), 4 yrs |
Thanks Mia you rock! xx It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice | ||
| 15 Jan 12, 5:52 PM mia UK(M), 4 yrs |
So do you missus! m, x Now where were we? Ah, yes - abject humiliation! | ||
| 15 Jan 12, 6:16 PM totallycoverme UK(M), 4 yrs |
Thanks Someone just told me that i've lost weight too quickly and that I'm risking ruining my metabolism (it sounds weird but I thought she might say that because she often tells me to eat at least 1800cals to lose weight which, as far as I know, is the upper limit rather than desirable goal of cals per day when trying to lose weight).
Meh! Doing it my way It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice | ||
| 15 Jan 12, 6:18 PM poutanaki UK(M), 10 yrs |
yay for breakthroughs! Memo sent! You are so pretty when you're on your knees. Disinfected, eager to please. | ||
| 15 Jan 12, 6:55 PM MsBikerlass UK(BB), 2 yrs |
As long as what your diet is balanced, and you are getting all the nutrients your body needs, then don't listen to what people say. I read the post you are referring to, I would ignore it as well, the first couple of weeks are always a bit higher weight loss as your body adjusts it's water balance. Just keep going, its a long slog to lose weight, but I believe you can do it. Just remember, whatever you decide to do to lose weight is something that you need to be able to maintain for the rest of your life, so meal replacements etc do not retrain your body as to what is healthy, and if you go back to what you were eating before the diet the weight will go back on. Trust me, I yo-yo. Life's a bitch and so am I. | ||
| 15 Jan 12, 7:49 PM sathya UK(S), 18 mths |
Just do what is right for you, you know your body, no-one else knows it like you. 3lbs is great, I started with WW a fortnight ago and lost 3.5 in 7 days, so you're on the right track.
Just keep chipping away, and before you know it, you'll be where you want to be on the scales sk x
The violets explode inside me when I meet your eyes Then I'm spinning and I'm diving Like a cloud of starlings - Elbow | ||
| 15 Jan 12, 7:55 PM x_Lia_x 2 yrs |
Nicely put and well done  | ||
| 15 Jan 12, 9:31 PM canupleaseme UK(S), 3 yrs |
it's a good break through. Non of my 'dieting' ever worked and there were loads of naysayers. Ultimately the thing that worked for me was being more active and not actually dieting but that doesn't work for my mate who is doing weight watchers which didn't work for me.
Weight loss can be so personalised so bugger anyone who wants to talk you down with it Kink friendly Beauty therapist all enquiries welcome | ||
| 15 Jan 12, 10:39 PM Rear_Previewed 4 mths |
It would certainly make a nice change if you finally did start listening to yourself and not asking other people their opinion about your life choices every five minutes. Yay for you for finally getting that other people can't provide those answers. And more importantly, asking for advice all the time only sends a message to yourself that you are a damsel in distress instead of a capable person who can find her own solutions to things. I say that to be honest. I've read lots of your posts and lots of them make you sound like you're incapable of deciding what day of the week it is without someone's help, and you don't want to leave that impression, least of all on yourself. Edited 15 Jan 12, 10:57 PM by Rear_Previewed |
