Eureka!

So today, while having a look around some other weight loss blogs (I never knew there were so many out there!) I was struck by the fact that all of the blogs that I've found are of women who have had a few children and have struggled to get the weight back off after. I wish that there were someone who was more my age, because I feel like all the other blog writers have a connection with each other in that they are all married with children and I'm just a fat 19 year old.. lol! That said, I definitely found exactly the type of stuff that I've been looking for- and it's always so good hearing that other people can relate to exactly how you feel, regardless of differences in age or lifestyle! I read a blog post from a woman called Lyn called "Where I Was". She spoke about a moment where she saw a picture of herself wearing an ill-fitting outfit and it made her cry, making her decide to lose her weight once and for all. Looking at her before and after pictures, my jaw dropped! She's looking absolutely terrific and judging by the words in her post she's feeling the same way, and that's such an inspiration to me. The past few days I've been worrying about whether I'm going to be able to go through with this diet or not. I have to wait until I'm back in the UK to start it because a consultant from the Cambridge Weight Plan has to come and give me my week supply of food and weigh me etc. but I've found myself feeling sceptical of my enthusiasm for weight loss saying 'let's see how I feel when I'm starving and hallucinating chicken legs as peoples' heads like in the cartoons'. Seeing pictures and reading the words of people who have made that change, who have gone through that struggle of wanting to say 'f*** it, hand me another muffin' and have ignored it because of the good that it will cause in the long run, that's what helps me realise that if it doesn't work it will have been because I chose not to let it work. I need to stop doubting myself and start believing that this weight loss is possible no matter what! Especially when I see the results of people who are working with much higher hurdles than I am- I'm not nearly obese, just overweight and at great risk of developing diabetes and high blood pressure (thanks, genes!). It's time I start ignoring that sceptical part of my mind and start listening to the honest truth- that this can be done!