Hi everyone I am Harriet I signed up to lots of guy but this is my first post I am 26 years old and about 22 stone I have been trying to lose the weight for years but I seem to gain it rather than lose it
I have tried every diet my doctor has thrown at me nothing is what if everybody could give me another idea for a diet I'll be have to grateful
Hi Haz276 and welcome to the weight loss forum.
The NHS 12 week plan is not a diet but a life style change and you will find it works really well. There is lots of help and support for you here. 
You are invited to join our Newbie Club, where you can meet other new members who are just beginning their weigh loss journeys too. Here's the link for all the information you will need to find your way around the forum:
healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...
Write a brief note to introduce yourself to other newbies and I'm sure you'll be making friends, in no time.
Good luck with your first week.
hi YellowRose55
i have tried the 12 plan in the past i didnt lose anything i gained it and that was with following it to the t
In that case, Harriet, I advise you log onto the Daily Diary, so that we can have a look at your menus and see if there's anywhere they could be tweaked.
Have you put your details into the NHS BMI calculator, for a calorie range? Eating too little can be just as detrimental to weight loss, as eating too much.
The fact that you've done a lot of dieting, may have altered the way your body metabolises food, so you may need to pay more attention to what you're eating, as well as how much you're eating.
I hope this helps
Hi and welcome to the community!! Check out the 12 week plan. It makes alot of sense. I just do my own thing and eat healthy fruits and veggies daily. No sugar and try to eat few carbs. I drink lots of water and walk about 14 miles per week. The loss is slow for me since I'm on meds but it is coming off and staying off. I have gone from a size 14 to nearly a ten. My 12s are too big now. I have more self confidence just by being in control. I have learned alot here and now everything is not dependent on how I look. I want to just be healthier now.
Sorry the NHS 12 week programme didn't help you in the past, Haz276 . Is it worth giving another go, and using the Daily Diary, as has been suggested above? I think the benefit is that it's not a "diet" but a positive and healthy approach to eating. It's encouraged me to try new foods and recipes, and to be more organised and in control.
I hope you can make the progress you want. You'll get loads of encouragement and ideas on here
Ok I will give it another go
It really is about the long haul, a marathon not a sprint. That's what makes this forum useful as you can have a good old moan here when you get stuck and feel like packing it in. But the best encouragement is seeing those pounds shift, isn't it?
Good luck, you can do this but it's not an overnight transformation for any of us if we want to keep that weight off
Hi Haz276 and welcome!
My weight loss journey has taken me six years - this past year I have been maintaining, but ideally I would like to lose another 14lb (6kg)
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.
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ok thank you for the info i will keep a diary for the next 2 weeks and see if i am eating too much as i have no idea
In order toolset weight you have to consume less calories than you burn. It really is that easy! But in order to understand that, it will assist you greatly to keep a record of what you eat.
My highest weight was 22st back in May. I would recommend just trying to stay within the lower end of your BMI calorie allowance range. I didn't start off perfect either, and I am still far from perfect. But, I took baby steps. I would recommend progressing in baby steps. Swap one option for a healthier one. Perhaps the first week you can work on replacing your snacks. Then you can focus on cutting out sugary drinks, replacing them with sweetened sparking waters or any sugar-free drink, in addition to water.
Small changes like that make a big difference. I would also recommend having an eating plan (ex. 3 meals a day, and not eating after 7:30pm). Structure is very important, you will realise.
Then, after you have your diet sorted out, then you can look for what exercise best suits you. As I said, baby steps. It doesn't have to be heart attack inducing to work. At 22st, you'll be amazed by what diet alone can do for you, but exercise helps.
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