Need to lose weight any advice

[Sarahjane79]

Hello all i am new here today

Can i arsk how and what is everyone dowing to lose weight

Thank you

[Pineapple27]

Hi and welcome Sarahjane79

I started my weight loss journey at 14 stone - 6 years ago. I am just 4ft 8" tall and so was classed clinically obese.

I was 49 years old and had been trying to lose weight all of my life since the age of 9. I have a disability which makes exercise difficult (I am very sedentary and use a wheelchair outside of the house).

The one thing that I realised very early on in my journey was that I was just eating FAR TOO MUCH! I was a short, middle aged, sedentary female and I was eating the same as 5ft 9" active man (my now husband!). No wonder I was piling on the weight!

I started my journey at the end of February 2012, and managed to lose 4.5 stone in 2 and a half years through calorie counting and logging/weighing all of my food.

Then re-gained some, lost some again and have now managed to more or luess maintain for the past 6 months at around 10 stone. Still considered "over weight".

Ideally I would love to drop another stone to 9 stone and maintain there.

Here are a few of my past posts which I hope you will find helpful and inspiring. I won't try and tell you that my journey was easy - and you'll see that there were many blips along the way, but 5 years down the line, I feel about 20 years younger than I did when I was lugging around 4 stone more.

Please do pop back to the forums and share your journey with us - we are here for you, day and night and happy to share your success or support you when you need it.

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[BridgeGirl Administrator 2 stone]

Hello Sarahjane79 and welcome to the weight loss forum.

Forum members have all sorts of different approaches as you will see by reading around the different posts here. Many of us found the NHS 12 week plan a great starting point.

To help you find your way around, we’ve put all the information you’ll need in a Newbie Pack and here's the link healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...

Please take time to read it so you'll know what the forum has to offer.

We also ask that you read this information about internet privacy and security healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...

I see you have not locked your post. This means that it, and any replies, can be shared around the Internet by Twitter, Facebook etc (see the logos below your post); for this reason, some members are unwilling to reply to unlocked posts.

Wishing you all the best and I hope you become an active member of the forum 😊

By the way, it would be interesting to know how you found your way to this forum

[Sarahjane79 in reply to BridgeGirl]

Thank you

I have just downloded the NHS 12 week plan

I found this group as i have a Heart problem and was looing for some advice and i came arose this page it verry helpfull

[BridgeGirl Administrator 2 stone in reply to Sarahjane79]

Thanks

You'll find such a lot of support and information here if you just drop in regularly

[BridgeGirl Administrator 2 stone in reply to BridgeGirl]

PS when using the 12 week plan, you'll need your own calorie range from the NHS BMI calculator. The 1400 figure is generic and suits very few of us. You'd be best starting towards the top of that range and see how you go. You can reduce gradually as you lose weight