Looking to lose not gain!!

[Corona12]

Hello I am looking for any advise or recommdations on how to lose some weight. Here is my deal: I’m 57 weigh 250 lbs and am 5’4. I just quit smoking 3 weeks ago and do not want to put on more weight. I’ve tried every pill, program and soup diet on the market with little to no success

Any sustainable proven info is appreciated

[moreless Administrator 7 stone]

Hi and welcome, Corona

We done for quitting the cigs, now may I advise a sustainable healthy lifestyle, rather than a quick fix, gimmicky diet? The 12 week plan will point you in the right direction and this community will keep you on track

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[Pineapple27]

Hi Corona12 and welcome!

Brilliant that you've managed to quit smoking! Us shorties (I'm only 4ft 9") have our work cut out when it comes to weight loss.

We are a friendly bunch and will support you on your weight loss journey

I have a significant physical disability which affects my mobility (mobility further reduced in 2002 following a head on car crash, broken tib and fib which didn't heal well and then an ankle fusion).

I am short as a result of my disability rather than genetics - my two "little sisters" are both a foot taller than I am!

Reduction in mobility or a disability doesn't make weight loss impossible - it just makes it rather more challenging - but hey - us folks who have to deal with pain and / or disability on a daily basis are used to challenges, aren't we???

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.

The one thing that I realised 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! I now think of the weight I lost as each half a stone being a new born baby... I lost 9 of them and can't really understand how I was ever able to lug all of that around with me all of the time!

I often wish I had dealt with my weight when I was a lot younger, but still, better late than never and also the risk of illness that is associated with being overweight increases once you reach 50 years plus....

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 6 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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