A few different things come to mind when I started really putting weight on - the first being when I started working at 14 I now had all this money that was freely available to spend on "crap". It wasn't unusual for me to spend $10 at the school canteen every day. I also started working at a take-away shop when I was 15 and the "left-overs" could be eaten at the end of the night.
I turned 18 just after school finished and then started drinking 4 nights a week and not really looking after myself at all!
When I was 22 (2003) I started TAFE part-time at night, as well as working full time during the days. My dinners on these nights was whatever was in the TAFE canteen - usually creamy pastas, hot chips ...
I have tried a "few" times to lose some weight, first with lite n easy, which was great, but eventually the cost got to me - and I really wasn't learning anything about nutrition!
I tried the gym once before, which was great, but then met the love of my life, Gavin.. and yeh well I am sure you all know what happens when you meet a new fella.
Gavin & myself ended up moving in together not long after we met (6 months or so) (2005)and a few months after that we found out I was pregnant with Jacob(2006).
Whilst pregnant with Jacob i went from 99kgs to 111kgs. After he was born(Feb 2007), The 12 kgs I had put on during the pregnancy pretty much dropped off, but now I was at home all day - and I kept eating using the excuse that I was breastfeeding and needed the extra nutrition. CHIPS IS NOT NUTRITION!!
In June 2007, I remember going shopping for bridesmaid dresses for my friend Alecias wedding, (to be held in Nov 2007). We were waiting around and just happened to look on the clearence rack and found THE PERFECT DRESS! I tried it on, and it fitted so it came home with me! (at this stage, Gavin had proposed to me, but we hadn't yet set a date!).
After suffering a miscarriage in Nov 2007, we decided to set a wedding date - 23rd Feb 2008, which was less than 3 months away! I had everything organised and in a lightbulb moment, some 2 weeks before the wedding, decided that I should "propbably" try my dress on.. um.. well.. i remember that it was a HUGE struggle to do the thing up! Off to woolworths with my bestie and bought Ultra-slim or something like that - one of those festie shakes. I drank it every day and hardly ate, felt like crap, but the dress fitted on the day! (whoo hoo!)
Shortly after our wedding, we discovered we were pregnant again with Ebony. At this point, I probably weighed around 106kgs. At the end of my pregancy I weighed 117kgs. To date, this has been my heaviest!
After the birth of Ebony, I had lost 8kgs by my 6 week check up, and until a few weeks ago, this was what I thought I weighed!
There were 2 different photos of me taken during March which really made me stop and think about my weight, one on the 7th March at home with Ebony and Katie(my sisters hubby 2 b's daughter) and the other as part of a group shot at my in-laws property. Both of these photos made me really think that "its time to loose that beef.. "
I couldn't even believe that the person in the photos was really me. I certainly didnt feel like that person!
With Jacob, 29th March 2009
With Jacob, 29th March 2009
With Ebony & Katie 7th March 2009I've ummed & ahhed over starting a blog to record this journey but Its a trip that's only going to happen once cos I sure ain't doing it again! So here goes!
With Love, Kylie
With Love, Kylie
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