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User name/name: Loopy Lou

Age: 28

Birthday: 6th August

MARITAL STATUS: Engaged

Children/ages: Nope

STARTING WEIGHT: 150

CURRENT WEIGHT: 139

GOAL WEIGHT: 122

HEIGHT: 5' 2"

DIET HISTORY: I lost 35 pounds about 4 years ago on the atkins and went down to 133 pounds. I have slowly put on 14 pounds over 4 years and do not want to get up to where I was. I started the South beach diet on the 30th Sept and feel good.

EYE COLOR: Green

HAIR COLOR: Blonde

HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Reading, watching movies, videogames, cycling

PETS: 2 cats, Jasper is a persian and Tigo is a Birman

OCCUPATION: Clerical Assistant

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION: England

FAVORITE COLOR: Blue

FAVORITE FOODS: Pizza, chips, cakes, biscuits etc, anything thats not good

FAVORITE EXERCISE: cycling

FAVORITE BOOK(S): Horror, crime

FAVORITE MOVIE(S): Horror, crime, action, rom coms,

PROBLEM IN WEIGHT LOSS: Love eating food thats not good for me.

WHAT IS DIFFERENT THIS TIME THAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL:
I feel I am more under control and think, yeah I can do it

Welcome to SB Loopy Lou.

Glad you feel more in control. Yes you can do it!!!!

Welcome!! It looks like you've already made some great progress, so congratulations on that!

Thanks, yes I do at the moment and so far so good at resisting temptation.

Why is it that people that aren't on a diet feel the need to tempt you with things all the time?

Yeah, I get that a lot. People keep telling me that I need to take a break occasionally, but I just look at it like they don't understand how LC works. Even messing up once can throw everything off and in the grand scheme of things, it's not worth it.

I mean, look at me. I'm 200+lbs right now and people say, "Why are you on a diet? You look fine!" And I'm just like, listen this is important to me. I've made so much progress and worked really hard. I don't want to mess it up or risk reversing it. And sure, one bite in itself probably won't hurt, but one bite when you're trying to restrict what you eat can snowball into something much worse.

Yes, I know I don't have too much to loose but people don't realise how you feel about yourself do they. I see myself so much bigger than other people do and when you feel down about yourself and someone offers you something you really want to eat and you get a taste, then bye bye diet. You just have to keep going and eventually it pays off.

You're exactly right. It's all about control. You can control what you eat, but you can't control what other people offer you. But still, you are in total control of whether or not you eat it. It may not seem like it sometimes, but keep that in mind and it might help you.

LL, you can do it!