New...the story so far!
 

New to site, so thought I would introduce myself and give you my story so far. I'm 46, from Scotland and married with 2 kids. I've battled weight most of my life. The usual story..sad, so I eat, happy,so I eat, stressed, so I eat etc etc!

I reached my largest after my 2 sons were born. The eldest is 12 tho, so how long can I use that as an excuse!! I worked on the ground for an airline for many years. 3 years ago it was announced that the office was closing. We had the option of taking redundancy or applying for cabin crew (flight attendant). At that stage I reckon I was 266 lbs, so just laughed. However, I tagged along to meetings with my friends. Before I knew what was happening, I had gone for an interview and got the job! There is a swimming test in initial training ( you have to get yourself into a large rubber dinghy from the deep end of the swimming pool). As long as I passed that, I was told, my weight wasnt really an issue.
However, this gave me the motivation I needed to finally lose some weight. That was 3 years ago. I am now 210, so I've lost 56 lbs. However, most of that was over a year ago. I have yo yo dieted from 212lbs to 203 so many times in the last year! I am hoping that being on this site will give me the support to lose the rest of the weight that I need and want to.

Have before/after photos, but cant upload them as says file too large and to resize them. Not a clue how to do that! Any advice? Will have another go at it later!

Sounds like you have done great so far. Good luck getting the rest of the weight off.

I use photoshop to re-size. Most digital camera's come with a program that you can use to manupulate your images.

Welcome to the site.

Welcome and congrats on the weight loss so far!