My journey

[YvonneA]

Just had revinson surgery have not been able to walk for 3years

[Hidden]

Hi and welcome YvonneA

I know nothing about revision surgery (please note none of us on here are medically qualified )

To make navigating the forum easier, we've put all the information you'll need in a newbie pack and here's the link

healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...

Please take the time to read it carefully, so that you're able to enjoy everything that we have on offer.

In the interest of internet safety, we ask that you always lock your posts, by clicking on 'only followers in my community', before posting.

healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...

Wishing you all the best

[lucigret]

Hi Yvonne, That is a long time not to be able to walk. Will this surgery mean that you can learn to walk again. What was it a revision of?

Welcome to the forum

[YvonneA in reply to lucigret]

Knee hopefully but l have spinel trouble to so exercise is very painful even aqua

[lucigret in reply to YvonneA]

Sorry to hear that, but take heart, loosing weight is far more down to what we eat than the amount of exercise we can do

[Endrick 1st 7lbs]

Hi, YvonneA! Congrats on the knee surgery -- it's a big op, but the prospect of being more mobile must be so exciting! I'm sure the medics will all do their best to help you recover as fully as possible, and might be able to steer you in the right direction for physio for the knee and your spine (?). In any case, you are very welcome here. I'm a newbie, too, and there are lots of us. Look around the site and you'll soon get the hang of it -- but a warning: there's a LOT going on!

[IndigoBlue61]

Hello and welcome Yvonne

I have limited mobility but have lost weight by careful calorie counting 😊

Good luck!

[Pineapple27]

Hi YvonneA - it sounds like you've had an awful time of it....

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 also short - as a result of my disability (4ft 9") 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!)

If we move less, we have to eat less

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.

healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...

healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...

healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...

healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...