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How I ended up here.....

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2011..... Now 2021 S o how did I end up here? What on earth has my body been through all these years? 98kgs and 47 years young.  Finally understanding my body and metabolism, after damaging it for so long...... The sad thing is I have pretty much been on a diet since I was 15 - when I was tall and about 55kgs (think Nicole Kidman, without the crazy red hair). I was tall and lanky and sporty, I had the metabolism of an elite athlete. So why did I start dieting and begin over 30 years of unhappiness to weighing myself and worrying about what I looked like, how much I weighed?  Because I wanted to be perfect. I wanted to be the fittest and everywhere you looked in magazines (no internet that early) were pictures of thin women in bikini's, the diets and fads that you must do to look thin. I thought thin was fit back then. Oh man if I could go back and slap myself. I never really started putting weight on until I moved to London - I would always put on a few kgs here and there after a n