Countdown to Zero
I saw this documentary on TV the other night called Countdown to Zero. Dawn Potter who was a UK size 12 documented her efforts to shrink to an American size 0 (UK size 4). She got pretty damn close to it in the 2 months that she was on her starvation diet (a max of 500cal per day). She started out at 10st 7lb (149.8lb/68kg) and lost 1st 2lb (17lb/7.7kg). Her BMI went from 22 to 19.
Part of me wishes that I had a camera crew to follow me around all day to make me think twice about putting anything taboo in my mouth. I need to lose as much weight as I can in the last 11 weeks I have left in this country and my NZ friends and family see me for the first time in just over 2 years. I so desperately want to be thin - not a UK size 4 (my bones alone would NEVER fit into that size!!) - But a UK size 8 to 10 would be perfect. That will surely be a change from the morbidly obese UK size 22 that I was when I first got to London *yuck*. Right now I'm sitting at about a UK size 14 *still yuck*. I'm just not happy - and I'm really unhappy about my binge-eater status. I just know that I need to stick on soups for a week and I will see the results to keep me going … Dawn Potter said "The hunger never goes, but you begin to enjoy it, trust it, and rely on it" and I know that is how I feel when I'm focused too.
Not that Dawn was saying that starving oneself to a size 0 is a good thing. She was actually illustrating the mental and physical dangers of the whole business - but she still attempted it, even if it was only for 2 months. I have just less than 3 months. I can do it. It's just a matter of will I.
Dawn's story and diary is at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6335077.stm
Part of me wishes that I had a camera crew to follow me around all day to make me think twice about putting anything taboo in my mouth. I need to lose as much weight as I can in the last 11 weeks I have left in this country and my NZ friends and family see me for the first time in just over 2 years. I so desperately want to be thin - not a UK size 4 (my bones alone would NEVER fit into that size!!) - But a UK size 8 to 10 would be perfect. That will surely be a change from the morbidly obese UK size 22 that I was when I first got to London *yuck*. Right now I'm sitting at about a UK size 14 *still yuck*. I'm just not happy - and I'm really unhappy about my binge-eater status. I just know that I need to stick on soups for a week and I will see the results to keep me going … Dawn Potter said "The hunger never goes, but you begin to enjoy it, trust it, and rely on it" and I know that is how I feel when I'm focused too.
Not that Dawn was saying that starving oneself to a size 0 is a good thing. She was actually illustrating the mental and physical dangers of the whole business - but she still attempted it, even if it was only for 2 months. I have just less than 3 months. I can do it. It's just a matter of will I.
Dawn's story and diary is at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6335077.stm