Dukan/Life Update 'wah wah wah, I'm fat'
Hi,
Do let me know if you're really not bothered about the
dukan stuff... but it is part of my 'life' now so I'm going to talk about it
anyway.
I'm actually doing pretty well so far, no cravings, no
slip-ups... and 18 pounds down by the end of week three, which is absurd. I can
actually feel a difference too; when you have a lot to loose like I do it can
feel like a long time before you really start to feel that you've lost weight
rather than just seeing it on the scales. I think because it has been such a
short space of time and quite a big weightloss so far it is more noticeable.
Which is fine by me. I know pretty soon it is going to start slowing down,
which worries me a little but I'm trying to just take each day as it comes.
It's going to be a long journey.
As far as the actually diet goes, its pretty easy to
follow, there have been times when I have been faced with deciding between
chicken... or chicken! And its felt a little boring to say the least but I
seem to be doing ok now, and the introduction of vegetables again has been very
welcome, you actually gain a greater appreciation for certain types of food
when you restrict yourself so much, the attach phase felt like a very long
week.
Another thing I have liked about the diet is that it
takes so much worry out of trying to decide what to eat, what you 'should' have
etc... Without the choice there it's so much easier to make food less of a priority
during the day, and I don't mean that in a bad way. I was one of those people
that used to think about food a lot, I would be thinking about my next meal
whilst eating my current one so to not have that way of thinking anymore is
good, I'm learning to use food as fuel, and its actually purpose rather than as
a comfort, or something to do when I'm bored. I've learnt that my body needs a
lot less to function than I thought and that I can get away with eating much
smaller portions, I find myself getting full a lot sooner which is good, and because
it's a protein rich diet you actually feel fuller and satisfied for a much
longer time period. Before I would have eaten breakfast and been hungry again
about two hours later, now I can eat breakfast and 7/8am and not feel the need
to eat anything for at least 5-6 hours and similarly when it comes to dinnertime.
I very rarely feel the need to snack between meals because I'm just not hungry.
This is a big thing for me and a great way for me t keep motivated because I
think, if I was feeling hungry a lot of the time I'd feel deprived, and I'd be
craving all the wrong kinds of foods, but because I don't have that problem I'm
not even thinking about what I'm not 'allowed' to eat... I'm just seeing the
weight loss and focusing my energy on the results, I'm that fed up of being
over weight I'll do just about anything to get back to my slimmest and stay
there! Another thing is that this weight loss so far is purely diet; I haven't
had to exercise as well. I'd never and thought that possible, when I lost 5
stone a few years ago I really had to work hard and exercise religiously, and I
think that's why it was quite difficult to maintain in the end because I just
didn't keep up that level of fitness once I'd reached my goal weight, and
pretty quickly all those months of hard work and gone to waste, I think that's
why it has taken me s long to really get bad on the wagon and try and lose the
weight because I was so ashamed and disappointed at having put it back on! It's
actually really demoralizing for me. Being overweight has really effected me
this time round, on some levels I think I'm able to deal with it a lot more
emotionally now than when I was in my teens, back then I wasn't able to
separate disliking my body and disliking myself as a person, and so I was under
the illusion that I was a bad person and no body could possibly like me because
I was 'big' now I've come to realize that actually hating the way I look and
hating myself as a person are two different entities, I don't hate myself, I
just don't like the way I look, being fat doesn’t make me a bad person, it doesn’t
mean people will automatically hate me based on that, and if they do then
that's really their problem not mine. I'm never going to like the way I look
being over weight, I know I'm not meant to be a bigger person, for a while I
was trying to accept myself for who I was, if I'm going to be big, then I'd
have to learn to love myself, but deep down I just knew I would never be able
to do that, I'm not a 'big' girl inside. Being over weight doesn't make you
disgusting, or second-class, every one is beautiful whatever shape, size, color!
I look at other big women and think, yeah she's beautiful, but I'll just never
see myself that way, on me I find it disgusting, I hate my shape, I hate the
way fat looks on me.
ANYWAY. I think I'll leave that subject there for now;
I'll update you in a few weeks to let you know how I'm doing.
What else have I been doing? In all honesty, working,
working, working and that's about it. I've managed to get home a few times over
the summer but other than that all I've bee doing is working, which is good
actually. I've really welcomed the change of scenery, and actually interacting
with people on a daily basis other than my other half. I've never really
settled into the London life, I don't have my friends here or much of a social
life to be honest. I know. Woe is I. To be honest I could be proactive, I could
go out there and make friends, join groups, go out and socialize but I'm really
not that kind of person, or maybe I am? I don't really know anymore. I'm happy
in my little bubble, just Fred, and me but sometimes I think I would just like
to go out with friends or something you know?
I'm also mentally preparing myself to go back to uni,
I'm not really an academic person and I have a lot of self doubt about whether
I can actually do the work etc, but you know what? I get by, I do all right,
I'm never going to be there person getting all firsts but I do ok. I'm aiming
for a 2:1, and I managed to get that as my over all mark for year two so I'm
just hoping I can carry it through to year three. I'm not exactly attending the
most organized institutions so I'm also a bit worried that I'm supposed to have
been working of stuff over the holiday break, out unit has a habit of not
telling you things, and expecting you to know what your are supposed to be
doing without being prompted that that might be the case. OH WELL. We’ll
see.
I feel like there is far
too much text in this post so I'll add this picture of the sky just to lighten
it up a little :)
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| I was sat in traffic the other day and looked up to this, I love clouds. |
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| Little Bill. |
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| A dog that doesn't want her picture taken… |
Thank you for reading.
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