Fatty 50 who is determined to be a Nifty 50 !!
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This Buddy last logged in at 11-05-2009
Birthday: 21-04-1958
This is my story
I'm a just turned 50, Wife for 25 years, Mum of two, and Grandma to one, and for most of my life, childhood and adult, Ive been varying degrees of fat!!
I recently found out that my Mother (always on one diet or another herself- even now at over 70 years!) used to feed me to keep me quiet when I was a fractious baby, and it goes a long way to me realising why I have such a weird relationship with food now. I eat when Im sad, frustrated, lonely - all the usual suspects - but I can also eat when Im happy although it is normally in considerably smaller amounts. Im a typical yo-yo dieter - and I want to kick that habit once and for all and get back to eating to live, rather than living to eat.
Ive lost over 20 kilos in the last 18 months or so, and dropped from a 24/26 to 18/20 but Ive stalled recently and need a bit of a kick start to get me going again. The more so since I have recently been diagnosed with high blood pressure. Id like to kick the medication into touch too, which Ive been assured will almost certainly happen if I shift the rest of this weight. So health benefits are especially important to me.
Im following a low-fat, low GI diet plan, and trying to exercise as and when I can - mostly powerwalking - but I look after my 2 year old grandaughter most days and am finding it increasingly difficult to get into a proper fixed pattern for my fitness routine.
Having come this far on my own I think I really need to be part of a wider group now - I dont really know anyone else here where I live who has a similar problem, so finding mates online (my main contact during the day) who I could talk to about it all would be great.
