Hi guys, looking forward to achieving some success after struggling over the last 6 months following the Slimming World Plan. 10IB in almost 6 months.
I thought I'd try this site to see if I can add to the weight I've already lost. I struggle with my Thyroid, working nights and the start of the Menopause! Oh the joys of being a woman! lol
I am 53 years old, divorced and a grandmother to 2 boys and 1 girl. I have at least 3 stone to lose. If anyone lives in the Stafford area and would like to meet up for walks, coffee or chats please get in touch. Would love to make new friends who have the same goal as me.
Looking forward to your tips, and words of advice and encouragement.
Debbie
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Hello and welcome to the Weight Loss Forum Boggy64
You sounds like you are where I was 2+ years ago as I was also really struggling to lose weight. I don’t know much about the SW plan but I know of others who haven’t lost much weight and portion size was the issue 😕
For myself, I always ate fairly healthily but it was only when I really looked closely at the calorie content of food that I started to lose weight.
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
You'll find all the information you need to navigate the forum in the header and a link to the 12 week plan, so please take the time to read it carefully.
Have done Slimming World & WW in the past, but they didn't work for me!
There are many of us on this Forum who have additional barriers to losing our weight - whether it's age, the side-effects of medication, thyroid problems, disability, illness.... it just means that we will have to put in that little more effort to counting calories and keeping an eye on portion sizes as we are likely to need less calories because of our inability to burn additional calories through huge amount of exercise....
I have a disability that I was born with (shortening of all four limbs as a result of the drug Thalidomide my mum took when pregnant with me). As a result my mobility is minimal - and was further reduced following a serious head on car crash in 2002 when I broke my ankle. I went on to have my ankle joint fused and am still in constant pain with it.
I started my weight loss journey at 14 stone - 5 and a half years ago. I am just 4ft 9" 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. My disability 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.
I cannot stress enough how important this part of the weight loss journey is - being able to recognise just how much we are eating and address that. It is not about cutting out any foods but about being able to make informed choices about the foods we eat Also about learning how to behave differently around food. Just because food is in front of us does not mean to say that we have to eat it! Being able to exercise control and moderate intake is paramount.
I re-gained some of the weight I lost, then lost it again and have now managed to more or less 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.
My weight loss journey has been long, but I am still learning new tips and tricks to help me along the way and what's more, still enjoying the challenge! I would say that my behaviour around food has changed massively - I have learned to respect food, to "break" it's control over me, and to be able to modify how I behave with food. Just because food is within sight doesn't mean I have to eat it! I don't see eating the way I do as meaning that I am missing out any more - in fact I am now able to enjoy my life and have regained the ability to do things that I struggled to do or even found impossible to do!
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.
Thanks for your reply. Fab achievement on your weight loss. Did you lose weight by just calorie counting or by portion control as well? I am 5ft 4 and weigh 16 stone after several years of thyroid problems and a bout of depression due to my husband of 23.5 yrs cheating on me leaving my confidence in the gutter! I am a size 18 and would love to get in at least a 14. Fingers crossed. lol
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