Weight loss story

My name is Toni Caldworth and this is my story of my weight loss and dieting problems.

Since my early twenties I struggled keeping my weight under control, ballooning to nearly 19 stones (270 pounds) at one point.

Controlling my weight was a seemingly endless battle and it completely took over my life, as I tried desperately to get back to the size 10, I had been before all my weight problems started.

Overweight forever?

The weight just piled on and no matter which diet I tried, I just seemed doomed to failure! I just couldn't keep the weight I'd lost off. The weight would come piling back, within no time, defeating all my efforts, my hard work and the sacrifices I'd made to lose the weight in the first place.

It was a shattering and disheartening experience being on a high one moment, as I celebrated losing weight and then being down in the dumps, staring in the mirror realising my euphoria was short lived and I was back to square one... being fat again!

I hate diet plans!

I hated dieting and who could blame me as I'd failed so many times. I felt dieting was incredibly cruel and mentally it was draining, as all I could think about when I was on the diet was about food.

Trying to think of anything else was just too much and my food cravings would go beserk during my diets. I'd fight the temptation knowing there were only a few days left before the diet was over.

When the diet was over, the enormous relief was replaced for an intense desire to eat.... overeat!

I hate exercising!

Exercise was something I loathed and I used to get stressed out just thinking about going to the gym. It wasn't just about finding an hour or so to exercise but the other time needed, such as,

     • getting to the gym,

     • warming down after exercising,

     • getting showered,

     • getting dressed and

     • getting back home.

All these activities would take the total time needed to over 2 hours (including the hour for exercise) and I just didn't have 2 hours available during the working week. I'd worry endlessely about finding the time to go to the gym.

I looked at going early in the morning but I'd have to get up pretty early and I'm not an early person. I looked at going in the evenings but I was too shattered from work to do anything other than vegetate on my sofa.

Later on, I learn't the exercises that I had been doing were actually increasing my overeating, which was probably why I gained weight instead of losing it!

Accept being fat?

I got to a point where I became sick of worrying about my weight, sick of trying diet after diet and it was all just too much to bear. I decided I'd have to make a decision, on whether it was time to give up and accept being fat?

Fortunately, I decided I wasn't going to give in and I was going to find the root cause of my weight problems. I started reading about various pieces of research done into weight loss and weight control.

It wasn't too surprising to find the root cause of the weight problems most people faced was down to overeating. This was the only reason why my weight kept fluctuating like a yo-yo and what caused me to fail at keeping the weight I'd previously loss at bay.

Overeating

To lose weight and keep weight off, you only need to stop overeating. It's really as simple as that! I'm amazed it took me so long to find this out as I spent years wasting my money on weight loss pills, supposed miracle diets and even at one point contemplated gastric surgery.

The more I thought about overeating, the more I realised that up to early adulthood I'd been eating properly, that is, I had eaten only enough so I'd feel full. Then at some point in my life, something happened and I started to overeat.

From this point on, my weight problems started and I started to gain weight. Now If I hadn't started to overeat and even if I lived a sedentary life, that is without exercising much, I'd still be at a decent weight, so the only reason I'm overweight now, isn't down to fact that I don't exercise, it's down to my overeating problems.

I found out there's little point in exercising if you overeat, as you put more weight on from overeating than you'll ever lose exercising.

A little overeating, causes long term gains

My doctor told me that overeating one chocolate biscuit a day can lead to an additional weight gain of nearly 1 kg (2.2 pounds) over a year. I found this quite shocking considering my overeating was rampant and the weight gains I'd experienced year on had been dramatic.

I could easily eat a whole packet of biscuits, a cake or a tub of chocolate ice cream with ease! So my weight gains were substantially more than just the one chocolate biscuit a day!

My doctor was reassuring enough to advise me I only needed to look at my overeating problems first, exercise could wait. Once I'd solved my overeating, my doctor said, my weight loss would come and more importantly my weight would stabilise and stop yo-yo'ing from one week to the next.

Once my overeating had been beaten, I found I started to lose weight quickly without needing to spend hours working out in the gym.

Stop overeating!

Well, my first step was to find out what causes overeating. From my research I've found there are many reasons which contribute to overeating. Some are obvious but others required me to dig deeper.

Once I'd found what was making me overeat, I had to look at what I could do to overcome my overeating problems, this wasn't as difficult as it sounded. Especially as I found quick ways to drastically cut my overeating.

This left me in amazement at how simple techniques could cut my overeating by so much. I only wish I'd known about them earlier, it would have spared me so much pain and misery.

How can you stop overeating?

I've written a special book on my research findings and techniques I used to stop my overeating. My book 'Successful Weight Control' can help people understand overeating, by looking at the types of overeating which can plague us, along with solutions to overeating and simple therapies which can provide immense benefit rapidly.

'Successful Weight Control' also provides information on,

     • Quick ways to reduce overeating

     • Which diets actually contribute to overeating?

     • Exercise, which ones make you overeat afterwards?

     • What else could make you fatter ? (it's not just down to eating more)

     • How to stop weight being a problem and get on with your life?

     • How to eat what you want? (There's no need to cut out your favourite foods)

Get your copy of Successful Weight Control today from my publishers secure payment site by clicking here.

Successful Weight Control has allowed me to get the control back in my life by stopping overeating and not having to worry about my weight. You too could do the same by destroying the overeating urges that can cause the weight to pile on.

Toni Caldworth

Don't let overeating ruin your life.... beat it, just like I did!