A different post

I don't want to just journalise progress etc - it holds little interest for others I think.

So, a few words about attitudes, and maybe why I got so overweight in the first place.

From a young age, eating was a big part of what we did as a family to socialise - nothing particularly strange about that, I don't think.

I started getting into sport quite heavily when I was 12. This led to me using the gym and getting into bodybuilding quite a bit. From 14 - 17 I could eat anything I wanted and not go above a certain weight, and remained very very lean. I couldn't put weight on for love or money and didn't want to consider the more dramatic solutions. The result of this was that I really started to love food and the fact I could eat anything.

I had an operation at 17, was treated fairly badly by the NHS, and lost around 35 lbs which was almost all lean muscle mass. My progress from the last few years was gone, and I fell out of love with the gym, although kept up sport, and worst of all, kept up eating whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted.

Fast forward to university, and the lifestyle of late nights, unhealthy non-home cooked food, and too much beer, led to serious weight gain, probably 50 lbs in 3 years. This trend continued and although I aimed to lose it before my 30s, years later it still wasn't happening.

Unfortunately the only trend ever is upwards, and this is my first real sincere effort to do something about it. I'm not struggling with the fasting (the food at business school overall is poor, and choices are very limited, so maybe that's one reason why I don't miss it). Hopefully I will put in a score on the scales this week (I have a heavy weekend coming up, so it will be a challenge but am staying very focused until Friday night), and kick on next week.

If you are finding anything interesting, or have any comments, please do so!