Hi all
I meant to start my weekly weigh-in this morning but had to buy new bathroom scales as I am now too heavy to use mine as they only work up to 20 stone.
I am now at the heaviest I have weighed in my entire life!!
My new scales turned up today an its about 4pm here in the UK and my start weight is
21st 7lbs EEEK!!!
oh no you poor thing. What’s causing weight gain is it medication? Take care
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Weight gain and also losses are down to fluctuating thyroid function and undermedicated thyroid disorder since I relocated to Eastbourne in 2014 to start 9 years as a carer for a friend. Comfort eating for the 9 years as a carer.
Strangely, the only time I have lost a significant amount of weight since 2014 was during the 2020 lockdown when I lost 3 stone
Think of you and take care of yourself now.
Not to worry, GosportNancy, that's just a number and it will get lower from now on.
Get yourself over to the weigh-in and record your start weight so that next week you can earn your first badge
I would love to get myself over to the weigh-in but can't find the Wednesday one.
We do a weekly weigh-in now and you'll find the link in pinned posts
I'll look out for it in the new year and start then. New year and new start and all that
See you then
Here's the link to today's weigh in, you can weigh in now and join us Wednesday Wobbers, besides if you weigh today you could be reporting your first loss in the New Year x
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I'm not that fussed with starting this month so I'll wait until 3rd January once I have started my weight loss programme. I have devised this one myself as I gained more than a stone on the NHS weight loss programme.
Ok, good luck for the New Year x
It's my birthday in January and in January 2023 I quit smoking. I might start a new goal every year.
Good idea! X
I’m almost the same age as you, 64; and I’m also shocked that I have broken through the 20 stone barrier. Enough is enough!
Hi DONZOL and welcome back, well done for biting the bullet. I'm sure that youu can find your way around but this is the link to the pinned posts in case things have changed since you were here.
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I strongly recommend that you join in with our weekly weigh in as soon as possible. Just click on the blue link, scroll down to the 3rd post and reply to our host Scaffie.
I hope to see you around, participating as much as possible
Thank you! I’d like to do weigh ins on Mondays please.
Perfect DONZOL, next Monday our host is walkthisway
Hello GosportNancy29Stick to your diet plan, and keep going and you will get there. Exercise if you can. Do not give up. Do not beat yourself up about your weight. You can lose it. You can do it. You can do it.
It might be worth posting on another health unlocked forum called thyroid uk. Lots of really expert advice re optimising your thyroid treatment.
I already looked there and the only way I can optimise my treatment is to pay for private treatment in the UK or risk buying treatment which ends up with me buying fake meds. My GP has refused to provide the meds I need and it isn't now available on the NHS for new patients any longer. It hasn't been available to me since it stopped in 2016
Sorry to hear you are having these difficaultys. I have sourced my own T3 for years with out any problems. T3 is available on the NHS but only under an endo. GPs are no longer able to prescribe and it can be a bit of a battle to find the right endo and tick the boxes. Thyroid uk has a list of helpful endos some of which I believe work in the NHS.
When I sourced the T3 from a recommened source, they sent me fake T3, when it eventually turned up. All over that group were people who had been ripped off by the same company, so I stopped taking advice from there. I was prescribed T3 on the NHS until I was told that they were only prescribing for long standing paatients. The endos in my area have all stopped preescribing to new patients and I can't afford to travel further afield.
Don't panic. You will do it with lots of support here. I found after researching on here, that cutting carbs worked for me. You will find your own way. Good luck.
I am taking advice from doctors who have helped people reverse their type 2 Diabetes. I asked locally for help on the NHS but my practice hasn't taken on board the current advice that is available in other areas. I just happen to live in a black hole where the GPs don't keep up to date.
Well done, Nancy, on taking the plunge. Sorry I have been off with COVID, but you look well taken care of. I weighed today(Friday).Lots of members have been over twenty stone, myself included. Just wanted to wish you all the best with your weight loss journey x
Good to see you back here with us. I'll be weighing in next Wednesday as I have now bought a new set of bathroom scales. I'm a wobbler. I had to hang on for dear life to be steady enough to stand on the scales. I need to get back with my balance exercises
My knees were shocking to start with GosportNancy29 , but I see little improvements all the time. My feet are a size smaller and I can wear my doc marts this winter(purchased Oct 22). I too am a wobbler, but wanted to get loss recorded today!!
How was Christmas? I have made a second pan of turkey soup today. That's the last of it. We had a few sugary gifts. Last year I made big hints and felt rude. But I will have to do that again!
Every day I post on the daily diary for food and exercise
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This might suit you x
My lovely Billy (best friend who died last year in November), bought me a purple pair of Doc Martens so long ago that he forgot he had bought them as he had never seen me wearing them. I am looking forward to slimming into them and wearing them for the first time.
I will join in the conversations around exercise as I need all, the support I can get now. I bought some extra large ankle weights that are too small and one of those sit-down electric elliptical bike things but I am too heavy to use it.
It is good to have those goals along the way and lovely that one is a gift from your friend.
When my knees went, I could barely walk to the loo and back, but I am lots better everyday. I walked to the nearest lamppost, round the block, adding five mins at a time. Your journey will be different to mine. Maybe you could adapt your weights with velro or start with arms holding the weights. I use my own body weight, no weights, for exercise.
You will get there x
I have been looking at armchair yoga and dancercise and both are doable with Alexa providing the music. I just need to get in to a better routine
That's good. I will check out Alexa for yoga etc. I post on the daily diary by 9pm for the next day. That is my routine. x
Posting for the next day makes so much sense. I will get onto that then this evening
Where best to weigh yourself 
Nervous first weigh in
i need to weigh myself
Strap in, it is going to be a bumpy ride...!!
first weigh in today
