Newbie - Hello Everyone!

Hi everyone,

I hope you all have had a lovely Bank Holiday.

My name is Yasmin and I am a newbie to this group. I gave birth a year and a half ago, and I am finally ready to start losing my baby weight and get back to my pre-baby weight of 13 stones. For the past few weeks I have been completing the C25K runs, I am starting week 9 this week and graduating very soon! I didn’t think it would be possible for me to run consistently for 30 minutes, 90 seconds seemed like a daunting prospect! Now that I realise I can do more than I think I can, I am now ready to start my weight loss journey. I didn’t start running to lose weight, but it has inspired me to believe in myself and adopt a healthy eating lifestyle. I hope I can stick to it like I have done with my running.

My starting weight is 14 st 7.8 lb.

My initial weight loss goals are:

- To lose weight and meet my pre-baby weight of 13 st by the 1st September

- Eat healthily and reduce my sugar intake

- Run 5k at least 3 times a week

Have a great week everyone! x

[N-o-r-d-i Maintainer 64kg]

Hello and very warm welcome Well done on your running and I can see you already found a way to our Weigh In - looks like a great start!

Join in with other events, clubs and challenges as well, it always nicer when there is a bunch of us.

A lot of information can be found in our Pinned Posts: healthunlocked.com/weight-l...

Also feel free to ask if there are any questions.

Wishing you all the best achieving your goals and hope to see you around!

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Thank you so much N-o-r-d-i for your warm welcome and best wishes! I will definitely check out posts on events, clubs and challenges 🙂

[BridgeGirl Administrator 2 stone]

Welcome aboard, Yazikins

I did couch to 5k a couple of years ago and, like you, I was amazed to be able to run for 30 minutes: it really gives you confidence to think you can achieve what would have seemed impossible before.

I suggest you set interim goals e.g. firstly getting into the 13s. And time targets can be tricky: I remember setting myself a time to lose a stone and when I "only" lost 13 lbs I was disappointed instead of being chuffed with what I'd done.

You'll find lots of information here, and different eating plans: my main tip would be open to new ideas and to questioning some of the standard advice that has seen such a rise in obesity over the past few decades. Here's something that might interest you fatismyfriend.co.uk/

PS I suggest you lock your post - i.e. make it only available to forum members - as you've given your name and have included a profile photo

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Thanks so much for your message and sharing the link BridgeGirl!

How do you lock a post? I am still trying to figure out how everything works and I have been unsuccessful with doing this. Thanks in advance!

[BridgeGirl Administrator 2 stone in reply to Hidden]

Hi. At the food of your post you'll see More. Click on that, then select Edit. That will take you back into your post. At the bottom, for Who can see my post?, select only community members. Then Post (or it may be Edit post) and you're done

Then go to N-o-r-d-i's welcome reply to you, click on the link she gave to Pinned Posts and scroll through all those posts to see what's on offer.

Good luck

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Hi Yasmin 👋🏼. Welcome on board. This is such a friendly group. You’ll get loads of advice and support. Xx

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Thanks for the warm welcome Jubbly55

[focused1 Maintainer 13kg]

Gosh - baby , graduation and running -you are busy so I can see if you concentrate on a balanced food intake the weight loss should follow .