My Diet Hell....

OK, so in all honesty, I have porked up A LOT since last November... I'd say I have put on about 20lbs ( -ohmygod saying it out loud makes it even WORSE!), and even before then, I was trying to lose weight!

I am a bit of a dieting afficionado: I'm quite good at dieting, I'm just not good at staying thin.

In the last ten years, I have tried with varying results:

Slimming World (lost 6lbs in 5 months - very frustrating)

Smoking (...No. Just no. Have not touched tobacco in over 7 years now)

Rosemary Conley (lost about 7lbs in about 3 months, and all my interest)

Weight-watchers (negligible - was so fed up with counting everything!)

Atkins (best results: have previously lost something like 30lbs in 6 months, kept it off for all of about 3 months, then gradually put it back on, with some extra besides!)

South Beach (lost 9lbs in first wk and then fell off the wagon)

Alli (*shudder. Oh, the side effects...)

Gym obsession (great, but expensive and time-consuming. Would be great if I could have kept it up. Made me into a very boring, very hungry person!)

Starvation (lasted about 3 days and surprisingly only lost about 2lbs)

The Maple Syrup Diet (felt great first time, after about 4 days had lost 11lbs, but invariably I end up cold, irritable and then binge)

Low G.I. (pretty good, but always lose focus)
Various slimming tablets (very little effect, mostly make my mood swings almost bi-polar!)

Hypnotherapy (only went twice, but greatest effect was my hand going numb - I would try this again, if just for the therapy side)

You name it really, I've tried it...!

So now I am at the point where I just want to have a healthy relationship with food, not constantly obsessing over it: Seriously, if I know there's a pack of pringles in the building, I cannot rest!

I want to be able to overcome the psychological aspects of my compulsive eating as well as the physical hunger.