I am 59 years old. Weight 208 lbs. have bad back and joints and need to lose about 40 - 50lbs.
I have dieted on and off for the last 40 years. Sometimes successfully. But always returning to my original weight and then some.
I have bad food allergies that make me crave certain foods and every time I have an allergic response from something it takes me weeks to recover and I put on more weight ( have been hospitalised as an emergency at times so they can be dangerous too). So my health and my weight are tortuously tied up together. I am also a keen cook, so for me food can be both a delight and off limits and a danger - not a good combination!
Since I have started no S this week. I have been reading many posts and thinking very carefully about my life. I am off work on sick leave for a month or more and this seems to me to be an ideal time to really focus on myself. In general my work is very demanding and I often eat compulsively when I am at work. So this is my chance to break into my bad habits and try to turn them round. Before I have to go back to,work.
Weight loss is very important to me as I have to lose weight or my joints and my overall health will continue to deteriorate. I feel like I have lost control and lost confidence in my body. So this is an important time for me.
I have been greatly encouraged by such generous and insightful posts in response to mine. I have never done WW or anything public before. For me eating and dieting have been a secretive painful struggle. So here goes.
Sorry for all the info. I just want to get it all out so that I can acknowledge my life and move forwards. Will post tomorrow about the day today - I think that is how this works?
Thank you to anyone who took the time to read this! Future posts will be much briefer I hope
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