My weight loss journey.

Welcome to my weight loss journey. First off I just want to remind you that everyone is different, my journey will probably be very different to yours so please don't compare.

I started my journey January 2018, I'm 5ft 3" (160cm) and I weighed 15st 3lb (213lbs). I blamed my weight on everything I could, except for the actual reason.

In January, my fiance had a gp's appointment and obviously he was weighed as part of general health checks. He was the same weight as me.....only difference being he is a foot taller than me at 6ft 3 (180cm). I was horrified and just felt sick, how had I let myself get to this? That was it, no more. I AM going to lose weight. I was sick of the way I felt about myself and the way it obviously made my fiance feel. 

I'd be happy and smiling, catch a glimpse of my reflection somewhere and that smile would disappear. Looking at clothes thinking "do they do that in my size?". Putting literally anything I owned on, looking in the mirror and thinking it looked horrible. Taking a picture of myself, only to delete it because I hated it. My fiance would show me pictures of lingerie but before I knew I'd replied with "It wouldn't look that good on me though" and I'd have to see the sadness in his face because he loves me and he thinks I'm gorgeous and sexy but I hated myself.

So by the end of January 2018, I had stopped drinking fizzy drinks, cut down on the sugar I put into my coffee, from 4 spoons to 3. Not a massive difference but I felt if I changed everything at once I was more likely to fail and go back to hating myself, while eating chocolate to make myself feel better. I made a gp's appointment to get dietary advice and an appointment to get my IUD out as one of the side effects alot of women have with hormonal contraception is weight gain or an increase of appetite.

My journey was well on its way.