ms spock
VIP Member
I am officially at my WW weight goal which means I am 70 kilos which is the top of my BMI for my height! I am so pleased with that! I went to the meeting yesterday. I got some award type things, clapped and lied and told them my "why" was being at goal weight to reduce cancer risk as overweight puts you in a higher category and both my Mother and Sister have had breast cancer. (Well that is true but not my real motivator!)
My real "why" was to learn to not binge eat as a PTSD related symptom, and to not remain numb all day medicated and sedated by food that has been a disordered eating pattern from early childhood when the sexual assault started around twoish. My other "why" was to stop binge eating each night before bed because of my terror of sexual assault/rape! No one in public needs to know my real "whys". I am extremely proud to get out of being extremely obese, obese, overweight, to now being a normal weight.
In the WW programme nothing is off limits you can eat anything you want, you just have to be mindful of your portions and eating a balanced diet!
I am not interested in hearing from anyone who says BMI can be fudged. I have had medical supervision and have done nothing like that.
The weight loss was not the main issue. It has importance, but the main thing was to cease the binge eating to the point I would not be obese. The other main thing was not to be numbed out on food all day every day! That was so hard to learn.
It took me 1 year and 15 days to learn how not to self medicate with food so much of the time!
So now I am at a healthier weight! I am so very proud of myself!
The next thing is to manage my triggers and not slip back into binge eating at night or during the night times!
My real "why" was to learn to not binge eat as a PTSD related symptom, and to not remain numb all day medicated and sedated by food that has been a disordered eating pattern from early childhood when the sexual assault started around twoish. My other "why" was to stop binge eating each night before bed because of my terror of sexual assault/rape! No one in public needs to know my real "whys". I am extremely proud to get out of being extremely obese, obese, overweight, to now being a normal weight.
In the WW programme nothing is off limits you can eat anything you want, you just have to be mindful of your portions and eating a balanced diet!
I am not interested in hearing from anyone who says BMI can be fudged. I have had medical supervision and have done nothing like that.
The weight loss was not the main issue. It has importance, but the main thing was to cease the binge eating to the point I would not be obese. The other main thing was not to be numbed out on food all day every day! That was so hard to learn.
It took me 1 year and 15 days to learn how not to self medicate with food so much of the time!
So now I am at a healthier weight! I am so very proud of myself!
The next thing is to manage my triggers and not slip back into binge eating at night or during the night times!
