January 2004

Saturday 24 January 2004 -Well, here goes at another attempt to help keep me on track with my weight loss.  For the sake of completeness for this 'diary' which, if you are reading, I have had the guts to post it online, I will give a brief history of my weight journey.

Ok, my recollection is that I have always been overweight.  I have in my mind it all started when I was about 5 years old and I had my tonsils out and for recovery all I could eat was jelly and ice-cream.  Whether that's true or not I don't really know except if I look at photos of myself I looked 'chubby' at least by about year 5 or 6 so 10-12 years old.  Now that I think about it that may well have been the start to my emotional eating.  When I was about 8