Bea Too

Books beside my bed
Broke through Britain by Peter Mortimer
Money by Martin Amis

Favorite TV Programe
Sex in the City
Alias

Listening to
Steve Wright in the Afternoon
BBC Radio 2
The Archers

Films I want to see
Amelie
The Royal Tenenbaums
A Beautiful Mind

Last seen film
High Fidelity

Good Things

Bad Things
Tony Blair

 

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I have bounced around the scales since my adult life.  I always worried I was too fat but looking back on all the old pictures I don't see it.  My real problems started when I had my daughter one minute I was losing weight at the rate of knots then overnight I had put on 4 stone.  Since then I have struggled with the scales - tried all sorts of different diets and what I don't know about dieting I could write on the back of a postage stamp.

On my last diet I lost 4 stone and was the happiest I have been in years.  I could buy the clothes I liked I felt better.  Having had a taste of what it feels like I want to return to that weight and if I am lucky a bit further.  My biggest problem is comfort eating.  In the past I have stopped buying myself the expensive treats because I felt it was selfish.

This time round I am using my knowledge about how my body works (no one knows it better than me) and calorie counting.  Instead of trying to cook just for me I am doing a complete life change for the whole family.  We are all now eating steam vegetables and fruit.  If they want to add butter to the vegetables they can.  Before I would always cook two meals, which in the end would tire me and I found it hard to keep up.  I found buying convenience food on top of the everyday shopping expensive. Yet if I tried to eat what the rest of the family ate cutting out all the fattening things I felt deprived.

What made this time different was that I was given a cheque to buy some new clothes as most of my others were too small.  Instead I decided to spend it on fruit and vegetables.  The first week the bill was huge but as the weeks pass I am changing and the bill is coming down.  I don't waste money now on sweets, biscuits etc.

This website is for me - firstly, because it helps me to write about it and secondly, because it expands my web skills.  So hopefully at the end of this journey I would have a me that I am happier with and a load of new skills.