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[Fedupsammi]

Hi I am new here and hoping for help to lose at least a stone. I'm 67 and 10 st 7lb at the moment. I find it so difficult to keep weight off. I think I need help.

[RobLandsdown91]

Hi fedupsammi,

Hopefully we can make you not so fed up, and a very happy Sammi soon

Head over to the Newbie thread here - healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...

That'll give you all the info you need - wishing you the best of luck

Rob

[moreless Administrator SS Supercook 7 stone]

Hi and welcome, sammi

Maintaining weight loss is far more difficult than losing the weight in the first place. It's only possible after the realisation that we need to eat healthily forever. There are no long term quick fixes.

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

healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...

Wishing you all the best

[Pineapple27]

Hi and welcome Fedupsammi

I started my weight loss journey at the end of February 2012, weighing in at 14 stone - 5 and a half years ago. I was 49 years old and had been trying to lose weight all of my life since the age of 9.

I managed to lose 4.5 stone in 2 and a half years through calorie counting and logging/weighing all of my food going from a size 24 to a size 16 and from 14 stone down to 9 and a half.

Then re-gained some.... lost some again and have now managed to more or less maintain for the past 6 months.

BUT... ideally I would love to drop another stone and maintain there.

I have a disability which makes exercise difficult, but the one thing that I realise very early on in my journey was that I was just eating FAR TOO MUCH! I was a VERY short (4ft 9"), 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!

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.

healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...

healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...

healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...

healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...