Grief and not treating food as a comfort

Hey pals,

Last week I signed up for the Xmas challenge and within a few hours I had word that one of my best mates had passed from his battle with cancer.

I’m just here to say that this week I got through a lot of the binge desire by reading your stories. I even went through top of all time and read those too.

I had a couple of bigger calorie days (mainly the wake with booze calories tbh...), but I made conscious choices.

If I wanted crepes, I worked out a way to get them into my calorie goals for the day. I was gentle, ate over my usual limits sometimes and tried not to be hard on myself.

I weighed myself this morning and I’m down to 79.5kg from 80kg last Monday. That means I’ve officially lost 10kg in the last 3 months and from your support I’m going to keep going.

Just found a nice non chain 24 hour local gym that also has an infrared sauna (love me some sauna!) and going to begin incorporating work outs into my days. I stopped working out when my friend got sick as I didn’t have the mental space for it, but I know he’d want me to get back to myself.

I’m not quite sure why I’m making this post. I’m usually a lurker, but I just wanted to reach out and thank the team here. No one was ever specifically writing to me obvs, but through the community of sharing I could read everyone’s words and take heart and support from them.

To other lurkers, you’re going to be ok and I’m thinking of you x

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