I have been looking around the site for the past hour or 2 and before I go off & get ready for bed (yes I know it's quite early but I am a tired bunny!) I will bore you all with a quick intro!
Well - basics to start with - I am 38, have been married for 14 yrs, got 4 cats and no kids (through choice). I have worked for the same company for 21 years and am totally cheesed off with it!
I have always had a "weight problem" - I think I weighed about 12st when I was 9!! I'm just under 17st now though I was over 18st at my heaviest and got down to 12 1/2 after my first serious attempt at losing weight a few years ago. It's all piling back on now but I am determined to reverse it! I have decided to try a different approach to a diet this time. I don't think it's WHAT I eat that's the problem so much as WHY I eat it so I am giving affirmations a go and trying to figure out what's going on in my head! (Now don't laugh!! It's only my 2nd day & already I have made a step in the right direction - I'm here aren't I?!!!)
My aim is to get back down to 13 1/2 st - wish me luck!
well hello there, finally i find a site that is helpful! Right about me, i am 26 years old and have always had a weight problem but now it is getting so bad that my children and family are suffering to! I have been with my husband for nearly 6 years and i was just over 12 stone when i met him now i didnt really think about my weight then as i was happy as i was, i had my first child and put on four stone my god i was massive, i got caught pregnant again quite soon after my son was born and put on another 4 stone and my daughter is now 2 and i havent managed to shift anything!
I was told by my lovely brother that i must do something about my weight, (after a night out, i suppose the truth comes out when your drunk) i was crushed, i am sick off people using the fat card when my name is mentioned and i really dislike being referred to as the 'big girl' with the bubbly personality, yeah right dont they realise that i make fun of myself so they dont have too!
My husband is drop dead georgous (well i will say that) and when i hear people laughing behind his back saying ' god is that is wife' hurts more than anything which also hurts our relationship as i am always thinking well maybe they are right he can do better!
So today is the first day of the rest of my life!!!!!
all help is welcome as i felt so alone untl i found this site
Ukgal - go swimming! I live in Ramsbottom, not far from you really. I first went to the pool at 19 stone. I looked lovely but the roof didn't cave in, nobody pointed and stared, and I started making pool friends.
Now I'm 14 stone (near as damn it anyway) and still swimming. I feel heaps more confident, and people are forever telling me I look 12 stone ish, which is nice, no one ever believes I still have 4 to lose.
My uncle and my mum have both been nasty about telling me to lose weight. I remember having a huge fight with mum when I was younger, she asked me how I was going to lose the weight and I said by healthy eating and exercise and she yelled at me saying that was ridiculous and I needed extra help at my weight!!! Silly mum.
So now we're nearly the same dress size hehehehehe. She's lighter than me but she's a lot shorter. I can't wait to see her in June.
Well, I may as well dive in with the obligatory 'here I am!' post.
I am 23 (my fingers still naturally want to type 21), from Lancashire (hurrah!) and just over 14 stone. I started gaining weight when I turned 18 and discovered the twin delights of booze and boys. Aged 19 I moved to Newcastle to university, and got steadily heavier. I took a year out of uni, think of it as a self imposed industrial placement of sorts, and went from 13 stone 7lbs to 11 stone 7lbs. Then I went back to uni to complete my degree and since have managed to gain it all back. Yay me. Now I'm working, and it's possibly the least active I've ever been. Sat at a desk all day, with a walk for a sausage butty at 10am for my only exercise.
Ideally I'd like to get to 11 stone. I'm a member of a lovely gym that has absolutely everything one could desire. I know what I should be eating, I know how I should be exercising, it's simply a matter of getting back on the fun bus and finding ways to make this work for me in the long term, as well as the short term.
I have nothing more to say for now - here's to no sausage butty for breakfast tomorrow!
Hi Freya, I'm in Ramsbottom. I'm about the same weight as you now, but was 19 stone at the beginning of last year. I still have a long way to go to get to goal, and I suspect it'll be 2007 before I get there, but that's ok, as long as I get there!
Hate those desk jobs, I'm the same, I don't move from 9 til 5 except to feed!
Aaah, Sheep's Arse - ended up there after this years Christmas do. Bit of a nightmare really, but I don't think here's the time or place to divulge details I'm from Blackburn. Feel free to mock accordingly.
Hello all other newbies too! Join in the chat thread - just dive in even though me, kyk and Sarah-Ann seem to be monopolising it at the moment It's because we have nothing better to do... Or at least just don't want to do it!
Hi all
Yup, my turn to act the newbie and intro myself. I'm Dip, and I'm up in Glasgow. I've reached an all time 'high' of 305 pounds this week - woohoo! Maybe enough's enough, I don't know - I've had to have my jeans unbuttoned whenever I've been sat down this afternoon, so I feel less uncomfortable, as I seem to have moved from having a couple of spare tyres to a gut that most 12-pints-of-beer-a-night-and-that's-me-taking-it-easy guys would be immensely proud of. I have no idea if I can change this, or if I'm going to become one of those people they make TV shows about, because they can no longer move out of their house as they just don't make doorways wide enough these days, etc, etc. I know it's a lot about understanding why I compulsively eat, but I know there are aspects of it that I don't want to change (I know there is a gorgeous chocolate dessert in my kitchen, just waiting to be eaten and I don't want to use willpower to ignore it... I just want to eat it......). I've read about people who either don't want to lose weight/deliberately put weight on (even if they've lost loads before) because of emotional barriers, etc - maybe I fit into that category, or maybe I'm just lazy. Who knows.
Can you guess that encouragement would be great right now!
Love Dipxx
This may get confusing we have a Dippy Chip and a dippychick now
I'm a whole 2 pounds off my highest weight having yo yo ed for the last billion years. I sabotage myself a lot. I can do well all week then the night before weigh in I will consume double the cals, maybe triple. This is the year I am determined to lose (I have the small amouint of 140 pounds to lose) and not put it back on. Not getting any younger.
Feel free to join in anywhere, we don't bite (unless requested).
Hi I'm Nikki I live near Newcastle. I started eating less calories and joined a gym almost 4 weeks ago now. I've been weighing myself in kilos because I havent got a clue how many stones or whatever it converts into then after a while I want to hopefully get a nice surprise when I eventually do convert it. (I may be mad but it makes sense to me) So I was 85 kilos when I started and as from today I'm 83.8 yay... I just hope it stays that way!
My main weakness is crisps one packet is never enough. I have 3 kids so I usually always have them in the house so they can have a snack after school but I eat most of them myself, or did before I started this weightloss thing. I'm trying not to buy them now so I wont have that temptation there, I could do with a good substitute that doesn't cost too much though.
I'm definately an emotional eater too but I'm trying to find other ways to console myself when I'm feeling down. I haven't found anything yet but still trying not to use food for comfort, it works unless I'm really hungry.
but the roof didn't cave in, nobody pointed and stared, and I started making pool friends.
It's because we have nothing better to do... Or at least just don't want to do it! 
greetings n salutations
