The huge thing for me has been realising that I'm not the greedy cow I thought I was, I was just eating the wrong things. I was a total carb fiend, could put away mounds of pasta, bread, rice. Yet I was always hungry. So I thought I was the greediest woman alive, because we're always told that carbs fill you up.
I was vegetarian for years, tried to keep low fat, failed a million times to diet. I would try a normal diet like weight watchers sort of thing and would shake from hunger and then binge like mad because I was such a greedy failure.
Then I tried this, and by luck, a couple of weeks later the first bootcamp started. It's amazing. I'm not a pig after all. I plan my meals for the week and do the shopping. I have my breakfast. Instead of eating my packed lunch at 10.30 because I'm starving and then eating another lunch at 12.30, I often don't realise it's lunchtime until other people leave the office. Lunch, then I totally forget about food again until dinner. I love to eat, I love to cook, but now I enjoy eating as a real pleasure, not as a compulsion. I go off piste sometimes, but genuinely prefer eating like this. I feel satisfied, nourished and in control.
The support here has been really amazing, and I love being able to come here. I don't make a big thing in real life about what I've been doing, don't want to be a diet bore to all and sundry. It's harder now though because people can't help but notice now I've dropped three sizes.
Anyway, waffling, but I hope this provides encouragement, especially yo those of you who have lots to lose. I'm going to get there and you can too.