I'm very overweight. I'm lucky in that I carry my weight very evenly across my body, so probably don't look as heavy as I actually am. I'm short and a size 14 in most shops and my BMI actually shows me almost in the obese range. I've always struggled a bit with my weight and lost quite a lot in my early 20s, which I kept of till my middle 30s by being pretty careful about what I ate and weighing myself regularly/cutting back when needed. In the last few years (I'm 40 next year) I just seem to have lost the willpower and have gradually put on about 2.5 stone. It doesn't seem to impact on my daily life that much, I don't get out of breath going up stairs or anything and can quite happily walk for an hour or so each day. I have a toddler and perhaps don't run about as much as some Mums, but that might be my age! My husband still seems to find me attractive.
I know I'd feel better and more confident if I lost weight and I'm pretty horrified by myself at times. I'm also really into clothes and have a wardrobe of lovely things I can't wear anymore. However, on balance, I'm just not sure I can be arsed... I have a fairly stressful job and a busy, tiring life and when I think about the energy a diet requires, let alone all the sacrifices, I just can't face it. I feel like all the nice things we do centre around food (and wine) and now that I'm too old, married and responsible to waste money on expensive clothes, go to parties or have ill-advised liaisons there just aren't that many other vices left!! WIBU to just decide to stay fat?
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procrastinationsupremo · 22/08/2017 18:47
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