Hi.
I've been lurking for a good while now, but have not posted before - if I make mistakes with my post, I am sorry.
I have always been overweight - lots of issues and problems that I let get on top of me, plus a family that believes fat is inherited - my grandmother, mother, sisters, and brother are all obese, and refuse to do anything. I have an issue with eating for comfort, and the destructive cycle that goes with that: Eat for comfort, feel bad, eat for comfort, feel bad and repeat ad nauseum.
Anyhow, I got to a point in 2013 when my beloved GSD died that I just went out for a walk - and then decided that I would learn to run. Then I got a treadmill (I was 17 stone 8 pounds) and used that. By the end of 2014 I was running half marathon distances, swimming a mile every week, doing HIIT at home, and hitting up the gym - I was 12 stone 4 at my best - still 2 stone overweight but for the first time in my post-puberty life I weighed less that I did when I was 12!
Then, my partner complained that I was doing too much, too many running events, too much gym time and I slid - I gradually stopped everything but running, and my diet went backwards - back to carbs, saturated fat, and sugar. Even running has taken a hit - from 5k per day to 2.5 - I am streaking my run, and am on day 895 today, but I am doing it almost by rote, rather than for enjoyment, and the knowledge that I would HATE myself if I stopped.
Anyway, all this preamble is to say that today, I found my copy of Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred - it was the one that got me going back in 2014 when I was starting out with more than running. JEEZ, it is HARD after doing very little!!!
I am back up to 14 stone 2 pounds - but I have done it before and it is not as much as last time!!
Thank you for reading this - I guess I am just rambling to get my thoughts collected.
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