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  • Hello all! I just stumbled upon this website today and thought I'd sign up. It seems like a great community here. I've decided (yet again) to try to lose weight and just started the fat smash diet. Not really sure what I'm doing since I don't do diets, but I've hit that point where I really need to do something about my expanding waistline! I almost had a heart attack when I weighed myself today! Definitely time to do something!!!
  • Hey Cammii

    To 3FC's , I hope you find it as much help and support as we all do. As you have proberly found there is many different sectons to help you along the way , reciepe's , specific diet forums, Dieting with problems (diabeties , thyroid probelems etc) and much more , there is defintly something here for everyone. I have been a member here for about 6 months ish now, but i started dieting seriously at the end of August , so far i have lost 26lbs and i am following the Rosemary Conley Gi Jeans Diet & fitness Class , i couldnt have got as far as i have without the love & support of everyone on here.

    Good luck with the task ahead i know at time it will be tough as it is for all of us but just remember there is always someone here to help it , the most important thing is not to give in , get yourself a weekly or mothly goal to keep you motivated and if you have a problem share it with someone as a problem shared is defintly a problem halved.

    Take care and all the best for you Weightloss Journey

    Teresa
  • Welcome Cammii


    I like your av Treez.
  • Thanks Veggie

    I do a good Mean and Moody Pose dont i lol

    Teresa
  • Welcome Cammi. I'd have a heart attack if I got on the scales and weighed what you do - I'd be thrilled!
  • Welcome Cammi

    Michele
  • Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. I laughed out loud when I read your reply doughnut! I love the name! I passed Krispy Creme yesterday on the way back from the supermarket, having stocked up on healthy food - and I resisted the urge! So proud of myself! Don't worry though, you'll get there. I used to be really thin so I (and everyone else around me) is extremely aware of the fact that I'm so much bigger than I used to be! I never thought in a million years that I'd be nearing 140lbs. I small-boned so that's all just fat! Scary!
  • Oh well, I've never been thin so I don't have your problem! You don't have much to lose so if you haven't been there yet come and check out the feather weights forum - it's one of the sub forums on the support groups bit. I don't technically qualify as a featherweight - actually I don't qualify at all, let's leave technicalities out of it - but I like it there!
  • Hi again!

    Thanks for the heads up! If it makes you feel any better, a few days ago I wouldn't have "technically" fit the criteria for joining the featherweights either. Losing water weight is great! yay!
  • Hey Cammi- Welcome.

    Where abouts in London do you live. I am in West London myself (my own personal centre of the universe!). What is the fat smash diet? I assume it is a low fat one?
  • Hi Cammii - another Londoner here (although I'm just pretending, I'm a yorkshire girl at heart!).
  • Hey,
    I just joined today, but didnt notice this board. I'm Sharon (or Shazza), 37 from London. I need to lose about 30lbs, the only thing I've lost at the moment is my willpower (am sure its about somewhere).
    Thought I'd say "hello".
  • Hey Shazza! Welcome. Are you ding any particular 'diet' or just watching your weight/screaming at the scales?

    Love your note about chocolate making clothes shrink. I must tell myself this - like a mantra over and over again. I have been avoiding chocs since just after Christmas. It has been quite hard but I remeind myself that Milk chocs slip down my throat without touching the sides and I am always convinced I have not eaten it until I see the wrapper in the bin. I don't even taste if!
  • Hey Peacock,

    I havent had any chocolate for two weeks now and its killing me (keep salivating every time I go past a fruit and nut bar) - eating loads of fruit and trying to drink lots of water. I just need to find that trigger in my brain that says "you need to lose weight Shaz" - its there somewhere. My clothes feel tight and the scales say "one at a time please" when I get on them !

    I'm not doing a particular diet, just cutting down and eating healthily, its how I lost weight before. I've done all the "fads", joined Slimming World etc, but lost interest. I know what works for me so just need to find the key......
  • @ Shazza...