Hi everyone - just catching up, congrats on all the losses and NSVs! I loved the suitcase image @mamabeeboo - I've lost around 14kg, and that's a medium sized case right there - amazing to think of that being stuck on my body not so long ago! Getting out of the obese categories is a great goal, congrats @PinkArt - I'm so looking forward to doing that for the first time. How we all dream of 'just' being overweight!
I've been away in London for a couple of days at a quite swanky event. Booked the more expensive train tickets with the bigger seats this time, but am quite confident that next time, I'll be okay in normal. I was definitely a lot less hot and bothered than usual, despite the sun, which was lovely - on day 2 we walked 20,000 steps! Bearing in mind both my size and the fact that I had ankle surgery in Aug and Sep, I was really pleased - having lost that medium suitcase will definitely have helped.
Best of all though, I think, is that my food choices came very naturally to me, even though I was away from home. I bought packs of cooked chicken and salmon and pots of fruit for the journeys in both directions, and ate healthily in restaurants - poached eggs for breakie, delicious ramen for lunch (the prawn one and not the usual belly pork!). I probably drank slightly more booze than normal but nothing extreme. Not even remotely tempted by my usual nemesis, pastries and cakes.
I was really pleased, it was pretty effortless, but also a bit sad for the former me. I remember getting the train back from London a few years ago, and going to the Burger King at Euston and buying two separate full meals - but making them each slightly different so it looked like they were for different people (as if anybody cared!). Then sitting in my little seat, feeling humiliated as I stuffed all of it down - but somehow completely unable to stop. I never, ever want to feel that compulsion and lack of control and shame ever again, and am insanely grateful for this drug and its injection of moderation.