My 32 year yoyo hell

Hi I’m down 60lbss 2 stone on WW and 32 lbs before I’ve still 50 lbs to lose but it’s so slow and I hardly eat anything.

My mum has an under active thyroid so I’m being tested for that and other things

I think it’s as I yoyo diet so now I’m changing my lifestyle

I walk 30-50 miles a week I’m just starting week 2 of c25k and go to Zumba just started back at classes

I’m 50 this year so I suppose it maybe this that’s slowed it all down

I knwk about muscle taking up less room than fat and I weigh and measure everything so I can’t do anymore but some days are so mentally tough to keep on track

Here’s my before and now photo

[rosie-2015]

Wow you look fantastic I can't believe you feel that you need to lose another 50 lb is it to reach a low BMI, I wish you all the best

Rosie xx ☺️

[Hidden in reply to rosie-2015]

Aww Thankyou. No low 24.5 bmi xx

[rosie-2015 in reply to Hidden]

Wow you must be so proud of yourself onwards and downward

Rosie xx 🌹

[ladyofcastile]

54 here. Ditch the bathroom scale, don't think in terms of weight, think in terms of getting strong, don't think in terms of calorie content, think in terms of nutrition. Work on your emotions. Yo-yoing often is the result of emotional issues. Check your stress levels. Lack of sleep and stress hormone cortisol make thing so much more difficult. Don't punish yourself. Do things you enjoy. The best time of your life is about to start.

[Hidden in reply to ladyofcastile]

Yes very true I’m doing WW and they just concentrate on scale weight 😢

[ladyofcastile in reply to Hidden]

WW works for some, well, great, but I don't quite like their system: public weight ins that have a tint of public shaming, the points thing that reminds me to the obsession anorexia sufferers have with numbers...I think it breeds obsession, guilt and self hatred, but that's just my opinion looking at it from outside. Someone very close to me was in WW for many years and realized she was yo-yoing all the time and getting more and more upset and obsessed. She had massive cravings and the need to eat and eat. I mentioned that if you don't put the right nutrients in your body, your body will try to get those nutrients and make you eat and eat until, bingo, you happen to eat something that have the nutrients, so she had to focus on nutrition. The problem was that her relationship with food was so messed up and her system so confused that I thought that the most helpful thing would be a radical change that covered nutrition and pressed the "reset" button. She gave Cambridge a try and it worked for her. Most crucially, changed her relationship with food and made her go into the journey of facing the void she was filling with the over consuming effort to lose weight, that literally takes over people's lives. I have lipedema, so I had to take massive care of myself ever since I remember and I had gone through everything, including 10 years of anorexia when I was 16, so I have some experience in this matters. I have nothing to do with Cambridge or anything like that, but for someone who was desperate for change and the need of a blank slate, I thought it made lots of sense. I am only too happy that it worked for her. Still, she's got weighted and measured once a week, but is a private thing, one to one with an adviser she had built a strong bond of trust with and for what I understand, they consider weight only one aspect of it. I thought I might just share. Perhaps someone finds it useful.

[CCRae13 in reply to ladyofcastile]

I completely agree here. Stress plays a huge part including stressing over every detail of your diet and exercise. I’m not perfect at it but I wholeheartedly believe that nutrition is most important.