just a bit of a moan - lost weight and still feeling rubbish...it's soooo hard!!

[lucylala]

Just want a bit of a moan, am feeling sorry for myself.

Totally thrown myself into dieting and exercising since August and have really stuck to it (as much as poss). I've lost 9lbs, 2 inches off my waist, 1" off each thigh and feel loads healthier and more shapely. I've got from a size 18/20 to a 16/18 which i am really chuffed about BUT...

my inspiration for doing this diet was I wanted to wear a gorgeous dress for a wedding we're going to at start of Dec. Really I need to buy a dress/outfit now and I've been trying them on and I still feel 'massive' and 'fat' and 'too big' to be sexy. I can squeeze into a couple of size 16's (which i'm chuffed to bits about cos that was my aim) but realisitically i'm going to have to get an 18 dress.

I know i'm being stupid and expecting miracles ( i'm 3 stone overweight so while i feel loads better having lost 9lbs there's still so much to go). The weight's coming off 1lb or 0.5lb a week (soooo slow) and i am trying so hard but I'm feeling really disheartened today - feel like i've worked so hard and failed to achieve me goal (i really wanted to wear a size 16 dress to the wedding)

Don't know what i want anyone to reply, maybe just wondering if anyone else has ever felt like this? Think i mostly just needed a moan...

Thanks for reading

i know how you feel completely. But if you had done nothing you would be buying a size 20 from a big ladies shop and now you will be buying a size 16-18 from any shop you like.

Try to enjoy the fact you can now shop in dorothy perkins or new look and not have to shop in evans.

nothin wrong with evans - please noone shout at me

you have done brilliantly to keep your will power this long and i bet you look great, okay so its not where you want to be ultimately but look on it as a big step in your journey.

if you do want to lose wieght very quickly there are diets that will help you achieve that (like lighterlife and cambridge) but you are doing brilliantly this way and i am very jealouys of your will power.