anon00's Journal, 22 Mar 22

Oh my goodness, you must feel so excited to be only 1 kilo from your set goal, you are so dedicated, you are an inspiration to us all. When you reach your goal do not forget about us wider friends, we need your determination to inspire us all. That said When I was younger,I did lose the weight so easy many times, I worked myself hard, I did 3 men"s lifting by hand, instead of using the forklift like they did (I did not have a forklift license), but I did it for the challenge. However the moment I would drop my guard to the stream of carbs surrounding me, the moment that enters my blood stream, my metabolic system says to me, time to grow. I am much better educated now on myself and the role of the nutrients I put in has, So my struggle with weight is just that, a battle, but I will win eventually, I used to be ultimately fighting with myself. LOL But now I fight, by not supporting highly processed food companies, and just eat right. For you 1000 little grams to go...Yah! 

Hey Linda. I’m kind of excited but the excitement has been taken over by how bad my skin is looking. I would have already reached my goal but I’ve had to shift into kind of weight maintenance because I’m trying to build muscle and stop the skin from losing the weight too fast and looking worse. I won’t be leaving yet, I have set my goals all the way from the start to be about 10-15 kilos so I could feel like I was making progress and not get frustrated. My final goal is 59 kilos which is my original weight before all the weight gain and where I would fit in old clothes and it’s a good fit for my frame and height. So expect me to be here for some time to accompany you on your journey too. It took a long time to put on all that weight and it’s slow going getting rid of it in a healthy way too. Hope you have been feeling better since I last check in 🙏🏻🤞🏻 

Going to be a long process. I stretched my body over many years and have come to accept it may take quite some time for it to firm up. One day you look in the mirror and think wow that has changed and didn't even notice, it being so subtle. 

Maintenance is the hardest part. I made many mistakes by dieting too fast when I was young. I really wish that I had been warned of the dangers. I was just so determined to lose the weight, never thinking that I was dramatically changing my metabolic rate for life. Even after years of eating right, it has been a constant battle, just one small thing eaten can turn my weight spiraling up and I will take 3 days of extremely careful dieting to resume back to where I was. Introducing food gradually helps, to start maintenance, but what I did was barbaric, back then I never once considered my nutrients were far too low. (X amount of calories to X amount of exercise) = weight loss. I was Wrong-Wrong-Wrong. It is far more important to balance the correct nutrients so your body does the burning without depriving it of the vital elements, minerals, fat that can destroy vital organs. I destroyed a healthy kidney before I realised that diet is far more important than any Doctors lack of knowledge demanding to under-eat and over exercise. Exercise is good, but under-eating deprives your body of the good nutrients. Everyone has to lose weight their own way, it is only at the end of the diet, that you realise, that you cannot eat the way you were before you gained any weight. The art is not the diet, but excepting that at the end of it all, the way you look at food must change permanently. For me it has been eating stuff, like Macaroni and cheese. I am making mine with parsnips and eggplant or zucchini for the pasta now. And This morning I had fillet steak eggs and mushroom and tomatoes on a 2Gram Low Carb bread and did not go over my daily balance as at tea time I will be having straight veges and balance, so I can be naughty but still be in my range for weight loss. This quest that I am on, is not a diet, but is a life long choice. Now if I just could teach the rest of the people around me, (hospitals, doctors, friends,family that things like takeaways do hurt you) if I could teach them that the food that they are eating should not be eaten,it is not healthy I would not need to diet at all. You will win, it is hard I know, but you have more strength and fitness than most so you will win. My biggest enemy to dieting is myself, I yo-yo dieted my whole life and then exercised hard to get rid of it. But now that I cannot exercise I am left with weight gain, and the inevitable conclusion, that I have backed myself into a corner of my own making. Nobody ever thinks about, "what if I am too ill to exercise so what then? everyone assumes that a quick trip to the gym will fix it. As always, I am in awe of your prowess, and thank you for your kind thoughts, you will triumph. Linda