Quick and Easy Weight Loss? My Hole!

BlowfishFairy 1; Weighing scales 0

Weight loss so far: 2st

Goal weight loss: 3st 7lbs (only 1.5st to go!)

I have spent many a long hour searching for quick and easy weight loss tips, and have found many questionable sites (see my previous post-http://blowfishfairy.blogspot.ie/2012/10/pro-anorexia-websites-seriously.html )! Articles that promise you'll lose a stone in a fortnight, or drop a dress size in a week...
I have tried them all. Let me tell you a few little things about them:

1. You may lose weight...Why? Because they have what I like to call the laxative effect on your poor (albeit a little flabby) body. Personally, I don't think it's worth it.

2. If you were lucky enough to lose the weight, as soon as you starting eating regularly (and healthily) again you WILL gain the weight back.

3. Some people don't lose a lb. This may be because your body when you start fad-dieting, your body goes in to survival mode and holds onto fat to save energy for the famine you are putting it through.

When dieting I work under the general rules that a) every body is different, so what works for some may not work for you and b) you cannot expect to lose weight on just dieting alone, or exercising alone. The two come hand in hand and work very well together.

I followed RTE's Operation Transformation. Making their low calorie dinners ( I live with my parents so most of the time my mam cooked for me), and jogging in the morning before my breakfast, worked wonders for me!

I started in January and lost a stone in two months. After that, it took a lot of motivation (of which I was quickly running out!) and by the summer I'd lost a further 1/2 stone (weight loss slows down after the initial drop). I took the summer off because, well, who wants to be counting calories when they're sunning themselves in Malta! Summer is a time for indulging in ice cold beers and barbeques...not exactly diet friendly! I was delighted with myself that I'd pretty much managed to maintain my weight loss. So by September I was ready for another go on the diet wagon. So far I've lost another 1/2 stone. If only by I could lose another stone Christmas I'd be one happy festive bunny!!

So that's my story of how weight loss is difficult, but as we all know anything worth having is not easily got.
You need to give yourself a break, otherwise you'll get bored and boredom = gaining weight.

K

This me before I started losing weight:

And this is me after: