Ambassador for Life

I have had many problems with my weight throughout my life. I must admit that I was basically fat up until a few years ago.I then realised that I needed to lose weight if I was ever to become contented and to also help increase my self-esteem; I then started to think about the best way to lose weight for a person like myself.

I was a person that had quite a lot of stress in my life due to the fact that I had three jobs; one selling composite doors for a composite door company, another advising people about jobs in foster care and the other was to do with providing a professional DVD authoring service. All of the stress would cause me to comfort eat.

I considered and read about lots of weight loss programs but eventually decided that I needed my own form of diet.

I was not prepared to give up all of my favourite foods and this was my plan:

I was very much aware of the importance of eating breakfast and would eat either cerial or toast in the morning. I would have a fairly light lunch, such as a sandwich, however for my evening meal I decided that I could eat whatever I wanted. The main thing and most difficult to implement would be the fact that I could no longer eat between meals. I had to stop eating so much snack food!. It was not all plain sailing, of course. I was however more than willing to work hard to achieve my goals as I was very determined to reach my ideal weight.

For exercise I decided to leave the car at home, wherever possible, and walk far more than I ever had done. I also started taking my children to the park at least twice a week. I would play various spors in the park including tennis, cricket, soccer and basketball. It is amazing how much weight you can lose by having fun.