Starting Over

OK! So a few months ago a friend of mine had asked me if I had ever heard of the Tim Noakes Diet, I told her I had not and she began to explain it to me, after a minute into her explanation I had automatically tuned her out, not because I did not care about what she had to say, more because I did not believe what she was telling me, and I can sum up everything she told me in one statement:

EATING MORE FAT AND LESS CARBS WILL MAKE YOU LOSE WEIGHT.

 

Now I am sure you can understand why I tuned her out, I am sure that most people can agree with me that a statement like that goes against EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING that we have been taught about eating healthy and losing weight.

My friend had then sent me a copy of the book on email and told me just to read it before I decided to ignore what she was saying, I told her I would and then forgot about it, I had forgotten that I even had it.

About a week or 2 later my sister had called me and said she bought herself a new book and felt she had to tell me about it and that it was called: The Real Meal Revolution, by Tim Noakes among others. The name Tim Noakes did ring a bell but I could not place the name, until my sister had started explaining it to me, even then I was skeptical but had decided to read the book, I finished the book from start to finish in 2 days and was hooked. At the time I was on Weigh-Less, which had worked previously but for some reason this time around it just wasn't working I would lose 2 kilos then gain 2.1 or lose 1 and gain 0.5 and so it went all the time. I tried every Diet under the sun and NOTHING worked. I eventually went for blood tests scans etc spent 1000’s only to find out I was IR (Insulin Resistant) which had explained a lot.

I then decided to try this way and did not weigh myself for 2 weeks. When I eventually did weigh myself I had lost 3.4kg eating bacon and eggs for breakfast, fried steak etc. I could not believe it. However I was not committed enough to stick to it, so I told myself a little cheat here and there won’t hurt, I think I still had that mindset that I would not manage on this diet and it would not work for me because it’s too difficult to keep to it, and even though this THE easiest way of eating I have experienced I still cheated and then gained and lost like I did on every other diet.

I did research on this diet and came across articles and success stories etc and was really motivated but that still didn't work. I still cheated.

So now I have decided to start this blog and keep a record of some sort to track myself and also to see where I am going wrong.

So as of TODAY I am going to start over, I am going to set aside the past 2 months of “partial Banting” and as of today my new journey begins. This is it this is the last chance I have to make it work. I am getting married on the 14^th of December 2014 and am going to do the best I can to look my best for what will be one of the MOST important days of my life, and not just for me but for my Fiancé who no matter what has been such an amazing pillar of strength and has supported me and made me feel special and beautiful even though I myself do not feel that way. The most important thing is that I am doing this for me, but the second most important reason is for him (My Fiancé) because he deserves my best effort at this. I do not currently know what I weigh, but when I met my fiancé I weighed 156kg, in the time that I knew him I had lost 18kg and gone down to 138kg but then went off the rails again went back up to 152kg the last time I weighed was about a month ago and I was at 147kg. What I weigh today I have no idea but most likely I have gained again I don’t know, I would not be surprised if I did. So I will be back here tomorrow with my starting weight.  As ashamed as my weight makes me, I will post it here because this time I have a goal and that’s my wedding day. I want to look the best I possibly can on my wedding day.

To Shaun (my fiancé) I love you, you have been such an inspiration to me and supported me through every new eating plan / diet I have tried in the last 2 years, EVERY FAILED ATTEMPT and yet you never made me feel bad about it. Today as I write this I feel like the most beautiful woman in the world because that is how you make me feel. So yes this journey is for me but it is also for you, because you have given me your best and you deserve the same in return… MY BEST.