Farewell Free-For-All Weekends

Enough is enough. I've struggled with my weight for years. I was wearing a UK size 16 when I was 12, which was an upsetting realisation for my dad whose job it was to take my sister and I shopping for school uniform every year. I'm now 25, not morbidly obese but well on my way; and have the livid stretch marks of a pregnant woman. Which is very disconcerting when you've never had a child. So the time has come to take matters in hand.

I'm not a yo-yo dieter, I love my food far too much to suffer and deny myself. I did have some success with WeightWatchers before I got married. I lost two stone, fitted the dress I'd optimistically bought off the peg; and looked beautiful. Then came the honeymoon. Only a week half-board in North Africa, but the buffets went on and on, the portions were huge, the drink flowed freely... and it's been all down hill from there. That was three years ago and I'm back to the weight I was on returning from university, a time when I lived on Burger King and enough rice and pasta in one sitting to feed a family of four. I was very naive back then. I remember eating huge slices of a pizza I'd made myself, feeling guilt-free because the entire block of cheese I'd covered it with was low-fat. They really should teach you about portion control at school :)

I've let the WeightWatchers life lax recently. Financial worries and disappointments at work have led to an "I don't care any more" attitude... and the stretch marks continue to grow (they're so red and prominent on my stomach, I look like I've been mauled by a small yet ferocious tiger). I know my husband will love me whatever I look like, but that's not the point, is it? I'll never look like Kate Moss (and good god, who would want to?), but I can at least feel healthy.

Tomorrow is Monday, the start of a new week and the start of me back on the WeightWatchers wagon. Will I succeed? Will I fail and eventually have to be airlifted out of my own bed in an industrial harness? Only time will tell; and this blog will record the results!

Is any one else blogging about their personal weight loss mission? I'd love to read about it and swap links :)