So don't like looking at photos of myself and clothes sizes are creeping up and keep kidding myself that it will stop.
I need help and motivation to lose weight. Tried WW and SW and can't stick with them.
What can u do please? I need these fat size 18/20 clothes to be back to size 12 please!
Hi and welcome, tinaabigail 
You've come to just the right place for support and motivation. Throw yourself into community life and you'll never look back
I'd like to invite you to join our Newbie Club, which we hope will be a good place for you to connect with members, who are also just starting out. If you just post a few words to introduce yourself and respond to others there, you'll soon break the ice. Here's the link
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Wishing you all the best
Good Morning and Welcome!
I think we've all been where you are. Which is why we're all here!
I can highly recommend the NHS 12 week plan, it's a great place to start and is more about a healthy lifestyle all together than just losing weight. I don't believe diets work, because at some point you come off of them. I think it's about eating healthily and rethinking our relationships with food.
Good luck, and I'm sure an admin will be around shortly to give you the official welcome and tour post.
Thanku xx
Hello Tina, I can relate to how you feel. It comes to something when I'm pleased that I've got DOWN to a size 20 !
Hi Tina. I lost weight and put it back on. I started the gym today with a plan to follow the c25k app to get me started.
I have my anniversary coming up so really want to get a bit slimmer by then.... hope ur firsy days going great!
I'm where you are tinaabigail. You are not alone!
We can do this ... a day at a time.
Best of luck to you!
Hi Tina 👋 Welcome to the forum there are so many tips on here and such lovely inspirational people to cheer you along your journey. You’ve certainly come to the right place.
Initially I found portion distortion to be one of my biggest problems as when I started calorie counting it became apparent I was over eating 😳 What do you think you might need to tackle?
I snack at home in the evening after dinner and know I need to stop this but the hunger overtakes. I sit at a desk all day and pick at food. I feel like I need to do some exercise and then I find time takes over and it's hard as I'm a single parent and need to get my daughter to bed and then I'm knackered.
Low fat food (milk, yoghurt etc) didn’t work for me and made me feel more hungry - I swapped to full fat so for example whole milk, full fat Greek yoghurt & olive oil for cooking. I reduced carbs (wholegrain if necessary and weighed, or sweet potato instead of normal, cauliflower rice instead of rice, lentils in soup instead of bread on the side) and increased protein, a great quick and easy snack is slices of apple dipped in peanut butter 😋 or a boiled egg! I find if I eat the same sort of breakfast and lunch there is less faffing and just dinner to think about and plan. You could find out your personal calorie allowance by imputing your details into the nhs bmi calculator and on the page that it displays your bmi score it also tells you what the calorie range you should stick to to loss weight is - you might be surprised 🙂 and following this not feel hungry 😉 nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Healthyw...
Sounds like we are in the same boat. If you ever want some motivational talk to move towards that size 12 send me a message. Best of luck 😊
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