Welcome to the forum Rachel you tall person you.

6ft1!!!!!!!!!!!! did your mum make you sleep in a grow bag!helooooooooo and well done on the lbs youve already managed to get rid off

Hi Rachel... you are a tall one... I have tall kids...one's 6'3" and the other is 5'10" and she's only fifteen!!!

Well done on your loss so far, come and join us often..we're always good for a natter, a shoulder to cry on or a whack with the :rolling pin:

Hello. Just finished reading all the intros and though I would add my own. I have been a member of 3fc for about 8 years now and never really paid attention to the forum boards!!! Jennifer of 3fc suggested I check it out, so here I am, thanks Jennifer!

My name is Lyssa. I am 34 years old. I currently live in W.Yorkshire and have lived in the UK for just over a year now. I grew up in Canada, got married at 17 and moved to the USA in 1998 with my husband. We have 3 children. Unfortunately the marriage went sour and I seperated. My family is originally from England and I met a lovely English bloke and thus the reason why I am living here now.

I've struggled with my weight for the past 15 years. It just started to pile on after my first pregnancy in 1991 and went up to my max weight in 1999. Six years ago tomorrow I had weight loss surgery and while I did lose alot of weight in the first year, long term my health has suffered due to vitamin deficiency, low iron, etc. On top of it all my pouch has stretched and I have no trouble putting away food. So now I have been steadily regaining weight and have been told to shift it, move more, eat less.

Due to the stress of the past year - moving away - not knowing many folks here and being home alone in the day with the kids while my partner works I was easily comforting myself with wine and trips to the biscuit tin, crips, chocolate.

I heard about Slimming World and thought I would give that a go. I've never been one for group support but I don't even know what I weigh at the moment (no scale) So I thought what the heck I can go check out one meeting, see if I might like it and take the humiliating plunge of stepping onto a scale and seeing what the damage is.

So just wanted to say hi.

Lyssa welcome to the forum! How could you ignore them for 8 years? Please stick around we love new people.

Hi Lysa... welcome to us. I know how you're feeling about being away from your home, I originate from Suffolk and am now living 6000 miles away in AZ. The first two years were really hard, but although I miss home with family and friends, I'm very happy out here.

Join in with posts often... we all need moral support, we all need help and we're all in the same boat, so feel free to grab a paddle and start paddling towards being happier with yourself and some pounds falling off. If we all row hard enough and melt the fat, I'm sure we could leave a new island somewhere in the middle of the sea... hmmmm what could we call it? ANy suggestions anyone?

Thanks for the welcome!
I have visited AZ a few times. I actually lived in California for about 6 months in 1998 and then almost 7 years in New Hampshire, prior to the US it was Canada and now for the past year its been England. I love it here .. just a bit lonely at times and stressful waiting for my divorce to go through.

I went to a SW meet tonight.
Weighed in 12 stone, 13 lb (whimper) My lowest weight 6 years ago was 135 lbs. So I've put on a ... few.

Still hopeful now my mindset is back on track things can get shaking and moving again and not just my jiggly bits from walking *sticks out tongue*

Now I know where the forum is I'll be sure to check in as often as I can.
Lyssa in the UK

I said hello in another thread, but realise I didn't say much about me.

I live in Somerset with my partner, Alan. I have a 20 year daughter ( I know I don't look old enough ) whose usually at University, but is currently mud-walking at Glastonbury Festival.

I have a lot of weight to lose, but I am chipping away at it slowly. I started about a year ago at slimming world, lost 3 and half stone, changed roles in the company, put two stone back on, and now I've taken 9lbs back off on my own, counting calories. (Sounds like I am a yo-yo dieter )

After my daughter's father and I seperated, I needed to earn enough to keep us both, seeing as my ex had problems paying support (actually he had difficulty spending money on anyone except himself which meant he left the country with the taxman chasing him ). I retrained as a software engineer in my 30's, joined a large company and because I was a gobby, bossy type (control freak ) ended up in engineering management. I currently on a 3 year posting within the firm auditing other bits of the company from an engineering perpective. It's a great chance to learn about the business, but involves travelling the length and breadth of the country, and lots of staying away from home which is a dieting challenge.

I want to get down to 20st and then set another target. I can't think of the all the excess weight as a goal because that seems too much.

I've got a lovely man, a good job, a daughter who I am very proud off, but I am wearing this overcoat of fat which is like waving a flag saying I'm out of control/ I have problems. I am fed up of being judged by other people, and fed up of carrying another person around.

Lyssa, just wondering where in west yorkshire you are as im currently residing in bingley and w. yorks aint that big a place.

Time to jump in and get down to business I think

My name's Trish, and I'm 33 years old, 34 on Friday I've been struggling with my weight for as long as I can remember really, and I think I've only ever once been a slim adult. I work with children and am a manager for a large nursery. Less playing with the children now and more siting on my ever increasing backside

I'm probably your typical yo-yo dieter....every time I lose weight, I put it all back on and then some. The one diet that got me slim was slimming world, I just find it really easy to follow, although I was a bit sick of pasta 'n' sauce and jacket potatoes by the end of it! I loved being slim and vowed to never put any weight back on again, but then I bought and moved into my first house, and all of a sudden I could buy, cook and eat whatever I wanted. My own fridge, my own cooker, lol, an absolute nightmare

I stopped smoking this time last year and put on loads of weight, but couldn't face dieting until I knew that I had the smoking under control. So this time around I started off at 18st, joined a gym, and put on another 7 pounds! That's a lot more than I have ever weighed before so I was absolutely mortified. So I started calorie counting at the end of March and have so far lost 1 1/2 stone exactly (as of this morning).

I've decided that I need a boost because for the last 11 weeks, I've lost a straight one pound a week. Not bad but not that great either when I have so much to lose. So today I started back on the slimming world eating plan again, I'm not going to the classes because work just gets in the way, but fingers crossed it'll make the weight come off a bit quicker, at least for a few weeks anyway!

Oh, and I'm addicted to weighing in as well...I weigh myself every morning without fail and sometimes before I go to bed too I think I'm just impatient Sorry, I think I must have needed to get it all out of my system

Welcome newbies - lovely to see you all here! This is the one place where you can come where you know you'll get laughs, support, a shoulder to cry on, more laughs, more support, and a completely non-judgemental audience. We love new people (and all the old 'uns too ), so I hope you stick around and join in regularly.

Good luck on your journeys!

Janey

Whoops, just started a new topic introducing myself! Did not see this...

I am Mazarin, aka Alison and if you look at my siggy you'll see I need all the help I can get!

I joined a gym yesterday, hopefully it will motivate me a little more to control what I eat!

Hello to you all!

hello Alison

i joined a gym to almost a month now..make sure you get a 1 on 1 session with an instrutor...it will help a lot!!
the first week i did that i lost 3 pounds..and i NEVER changed anything different with eating either
anyways welcome to the board!!!!

Hello, I'm Amber and I'm 23 years old. I was born and raised in rural, upstate New York and thought I'd live there for the rest of my life. But a few years after I graduated from high school, I had the opportunity to move to southern California with some friends I met online. Somehow I managed to muster up my courage and take the plunge. It turned out to be the best decision I ever made.

After the move, I broke up with my boyfriend of 4 years and was thoroughly enjoying my newfound independence and freedom. Work was easy, my friends were great and my bedroom was mine and mine alone. Then I met a man with a sexy English accent whilst playing an online game, and before I knew it I was back in New York saying "I do" and applying for a visa to live in the UK. Our first anniversary is next month.

We don't have children and don't plan on having any for at least 7 years. We're not ready to start a family and our two Tonkinese cats take up most of our attention right now. In fact, Nai (male) has just draped himself across my arms and Ying (female) is waiting for me to leave my baked sweet potato unguarded. I'd be annoyed if they weren't so damn adorable!

I'm one of those 'jack of all trades, master of none' people. As a result, I don't have a life-long passion to give my life direction and managed only one semester in university before I became incredibly bored. But I do have many varied interests, from video games to psychology, gardening to politics, cooking to theology and almost everything in between. I spend a lot of time on the computer, reading the news, playing sci-fi or fantasy games and researching whatever has taken my fancy this week.

I've been fat since I was 6 years old and my weight has become both an excuse and a protective shell. I've always been ashamed of my body and refused to participate in life until I lost weight, yet I would sabatoge myself every time. I finally kicked that destructive cycle when I gained 50 lbs last year and hit 300. My health had deteriorated so much that walking up a single flight of stairs completely drained me. I'm young, this is supposed to be the best time of my life! So I went back to the only diet that worked for me (McDougall, a low-fat vegan plan), began exercising daily and promptly lost 35 lbs.

My goal for now is just to get under 200, which is what I weighed when I was 18. Oh, to be in the 100s again...

Welcome to the forum Amber. I wish I'd of stuck with my diet at 23. Don't spend the next 10 years yo yo-ing like me! Believe me it is painful. Congrats on your loss so far.