Hi Emma,
I really admire your desire to change your life! Congratulations! There is no denying it is hard work. It is difficult with food because it is not something you can live without, unlike giving up smoking for example. I wish I had done what you are doing at your age. I went through college weighing between 13-14
stone.(5ft 6) I let my weight stop me from doing things that I wanted to do and dressing the way I would have loved to have dressed. "Fat clothes" just aren't really designed with fashion in mind!
I'm now 33 and still overweight, after trying numerous diets. But I'm 'in the focused zone' at the moment and going to crack it once and for all! I'm coming back to the UK at christmas and I'm going to be slim!!!
So Emma my words of advice to you would be the following. Try and work out, either on your own or with the help of a counsellor, why you over ate in the first place. As I said before food is something that we are faced with everyday and we need, just in the right proportions. Without improving our relationship with food we will spend our life time yo-yoing, being unhappy with ourselves and missing out on things we would love to do but avoid because we are ashamed of our bodies. I am a firm believer that beauty is on the inside, but people don't see that first. And from a health point of view being overweight stresses the
body way too much. If you want to have it into old age its never too early to start looking after it and treat it with the respect it AND YOU deserve.
Sorry if I have rambled on for too long, and feel free to ignore anything I have said!
I wish you all the best in creating your new life, I know you can do it! I'll keep my eye on your progress!
And good luck for your GCSE results.
