My pledge

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I will lose another 20lbs in weight at least in the next 6 months and in a year I will have kept it off and lost a further 10lbs.
I will stop smoking. My quit date is 02/02/14 at the latest. That's six days after I start taking Zyban. I will stop smoking and lose weight at the same time even if I feel like turd doing it, because who's to say I can't?
I know how many calories I need to consume in a week to lose weight (10,000) and in no week from now until my birthday will I exceed this amount.
I will accept that the people who love me actually love me.
I will accept that the man who finds me attractive actually finds me attractive, even at my current weight and at my previous one.
No one is going to stop me, especially not myself.
Failure is not an option. I will not fail.

This plan will be followed at all times with a sense of self-belief and even self-love (if I can manage it.) I will not allow negativity about my ability to follow this plan from either myself or other people to interfere with what I'm doing.

Sounds great puddingmouse!
I support you 100℅
I also pledge to quit smoking after I finish my my packet.
I pledge to do this knowing that I will feel like crap for a few months
I will not give in to temptation, I will feel better for doing this
I will not spend another dollar on cigarettes
I also pledge to support puddingmouse with her pledge

It sounds unachievable. There are too many goals to stick to. A human can only accomplish one or two major goals at a time, and each has to be in small steps.

How will you make yourself accept that people love you? Combined with the fact that you're trying to change yourself because you don't like what you are, is going to make the road to that goal a long twisty one.

What is failure? You're not allowed to make any mistakes whatsoever? Just remember that if you've gone a week on a diet and had a toffee pudding at the end of the week, you have not failed. Don't blame yourself at all, because you haven't failed. Giving up the diet and torturing yourself because of that one pudding is failure. Just continue as you were. That's success.

It sounds achievable to me, as long as you are ready for the double stress of not-smoking and not-eating as much. (Although, hmm, is 10,000 a week a balanced amount?) Go puddingmouse.

Its unachievable because she's placing too much pressure on herself and you can't MAKE yourself accept something because that's just putting on a front for yourself, in other words you would not really believe it.

Its too black and white to achieve.

I didn't mean to discount your very good points, MegaBass.
There are many unknowns in the situation, I grant that. Hopefully puddingmouse has ideas and plans for de-stressing and supportive people or person around her.

Best wishes, with the right willpower you can do it.

Beautiful words. You sound committed to it. Failure is not an option. Indeed! You'll come a better, happier person out of this

You'll have to keep us updated on your progress Puddingmouse. That might help you stay focussed as well.

I'd love to hear how it's going for you.

I've made a spreadsheet to monitor my progress. I'll share the results here at a later date.

I lost 6lbs last week (I don't know how. I was sticking to my plan, not starving myself. It was probably mostly water.) My spreadsheet has been very useful.

I'm taking my Zyban and don't have any strong cravings. I have been smokefree for 5 days now.

I'm not sleeping well because the Zyban is a bit speedy. It's also brought back my occasional stutter. Don't feel anxious or depressed and I generally have a good level of energy. I do feel unpleasantly wired and a bit jumpy at times. I don't have as much of an appetite for food due to the Zyban.