My father has gone home to Kerry for the week Doozer and is bringing me
back Tiffen bars. Oh what a bold girl I am!

Doozer - I find it ok drinking water (esp in the heat we had - I could not drink enough!) I prefer it straight from the fridge or with a slice of lmon and or lime. What I also love is cold herbal tea made up as usual (well, putting a few more bags in a pot) then transferred to a water jug with ice cubes when water cool, then slices of orange or lemon and put in fridge. Lovely. Haven't been able to do that since my last move as I no longer have a fridge to myself

Hi I am Helen, 49 next wednesday, next year 50 and I have decided to celebrate for the whole year, lots of fun things planned, so need to start now and hopefully will be slimmer next year.
I have always been fat, the problem is that the fat I was 30 years ago seems skinny to me now and if I had never started dieting then maybe everything would have been alright.
I live in London, with husband Joe and daughter Jemma, who is off to uni again soon. I work in a school office in hackney. I come from New Zealand and have just returned from a holiday there, still jet lagged at the mo.
The diet starts next week once the birthday is over and am hoping for the first milestone 10% to be done by Christmas. I would be interested in opinions on the easiest diet to stick to, have mostly done slimming world but would be interested inthe opinions of others. I am so pleased to have found this.

Hello Helen...from across the water in USA, Seattle WA. I just wanted to welcome you and say I LOVE London... have been there a couple of times and it is a beautiful city!

Hi Helen and

I've kind of created my own eating plan - 1500 to 2000 cals, low fat, low GI, as few processed foods as I can and lots of exercise.

I know what you mean about shouldn't having started dieting - with each diet it seems to get a bit harder to shift the fat and getting older doesn't seem to help, either (I'm 51).

I can completely recommend using low GI no matter what diet you end up chosing. The food is tasty and interesting and it, most important, its satisfying.

Hello

I've only just dicovered this fantastic site

I've had problems with my weight for like forever, you name a diet i've tried it and only ever lost 1 to 1 1/2 stone. I suffer from PCOS and have tried for children for 14 years. In 2004 i was told that at 34 i was still young and told to get down to a BMI 30 before i could get fertility treatment. I was referred to a specialist who put me on Xenical and although i really tried i lost only 1/2 stone in a year. In February this year the consultant turned around and accused me of not trying and said i'd have to have a stomach banding . Not ideal when you already have a history of stomach conditions - i already had polyps and have had a operation to remove some of my bowel due to a high chance of bowel cancer.

I then read about Lighter Life and as you can see i've lost 93lbs in 23 weeks

I'll be progressing onto the road to Management stage in a couple of weeks and can't believe my GP knew about this diet and didn't even mention it.

I'm married to an Irishman Martin who has been an awesome support and has loved me whatever size i've been.

Well i'm sure that more than you all needed to know but that's me

Welcome and well done.

Hi sugarcane, welcome along. I was 19 stone when I started, and I thought I'd have to have surgery too. It's been slow going, but I'm getting there, just eating sensibly and exercising. I need to get a push along, as I've been stuck for a few months now - but at least now I'm confident of maintaining!

I'm so stupid! I didn't notice this thread when I posted my hellos the other day. Typical! No wonder I needed a pair of glasses!!

Anyway I'll just breifly re-introduce myself to save boring you all again! I'm 27 and from Scotland. I'm 5'9 and I need to loose just over 3 stone now (already lost one and a half-ish but it's taken a year!!) I've discoverd the hard way how much your body changes during and after pregnancy (my son will be 1 on Monday!) and it's been a nightmare trying to shift this weight. I do seem to have lost another 1lb so far this week so that's good....but the weight loss thing has been a bit stuck for the last few months...not sure why

Welcome sugarcane I love your av.

Welcome Riot Rose (Cool name!)

HI everyone. I just did a search online and came across your site. I loev it already.

My name is Sharon, i am 29 , i recently married , April 13th , to my wonderful husband. I know i am an emotinal eater, and becaseu my husband and i live on different continents, he is a US Marine, we met online , fell in love, and the rest is history, however with his deployments to iraq, feeling lonely as we spend long times a part , and will do for the next year and a half until he can finally move to the UK permanently. I have let myself go, I exercised really well leading up to the wedding, but since then depression has hit, and the more weight i gain the more i get depressed, the mre i eat, the more i miss my hubby the more i eat.

I have always had a weight issue, i am just short of 5 feet tall, and weigh 11st 2lbs. this is the heaviest i have been for a long time, i know it may not sound like a lot to some, but i know i have the ability to spiral out of control, so want to do something now before i do.

I teach , and go back to work on monday, so i know this will keep me busy, and with taking a packed lunch to work, it helps so i dont buy the stodgy food from the canteen. I started running this week. , and am hoping i can keep it up when i go back to work, and with the kids, ( i have 2) .

I know boit of a long introduction lol.

I am looking forward to getting to know you all.

Hi Sharon and

It sounds like you've got a good plan going there. Try not to look at the WHOLE amount you have to lose (which is always depressing) - break it down in to smaller goals which somehow makes it more do-able.

It must be awful being apart from your husband for so long