Brett Roe
Member
So I wanted to start off by introducing my self and giving a brief explanation of what brought me here.
My name is Brett, I'm 27 from Nottinghamshire, UK. My weight has yoyo'd my whole life, I've always been weak for the chocolates, snacks and junk food! the lightest I've ever been (since adulthood at least) is 14stone, I was quite happy at that weight, would love to get back to it, maybe even less 13 stone would be nice! or even 12 stone, so I've got to eat and eat and eat to get my weight back up! haha how I envy those people who can shovel food down and never put on an ounce!
I joined this forum because I've realised, 4 days ago, I really need to loose some weight. I walk around 4 miles per day with my dogs and that's pretty much all the exercise I get (my job involves me sitting in front of a computer screen all day). on my walks I was noticing it getting harder and harder to get around what once I flew round no problem at all, my clothes were feeling absolutely awful on me, almost cutting me in half, I decided to get on the scales the next morning and I felt sick with my self! I weighed in at 20 stone 1lb!! I could not believe it! since then I've been doing the Atkins diet, like I say 4 days now, and so far I have lost 6 pounds! I'm pretty happy about that but I've still got a hell of a long way to go! its not fully the Atkins diet I'm doing, I've just drastically cut down on carbs (cannot cope with decaffeinated coffee lol), and as of tomorrow will be increasing the distance of my walks, hopefully double. I have to say I feel a bit better already, todays walk seemed a little easier, and I've been suffering with chronic heart burn for months, all day every day, and surviving on gaviscon lol. since cutting out the carbs I've not had a hint of heart burn which has been absolutely amazing!
I decided to join this forum for a bit of support and to help support others in the same boat as me, I started growing a beard a while back and joined a forum about beards (I wont mention the name of said forum here), but if it wasn't for the support of complete strangers on the internet I would have shaved the thing off months ago and not have this magnificent beard now haha.
So that's me, I hope to be an active member of this community for the foreseeable future, thanks for reading and hopefully we can all shed some pounds (stones in my case lol) together!
My name is Brett, I'm 27 from Nottinghamshire, UK. My weight has yoyo'd my whole life, I've always been weak for the chocolates, snacks and junk food! the lightest I've ever been (since adulthood at least) is 14stone, I was quite happy at that weight, would love to get back to it, maybe even less 13 stone would be nice! or even 12 stone, so I've got to eat and eat and eat to get my weight back up! haha how I envy those people who can shovel food down and never put on an ounce!
I joined this forum because I've realised, 4 days ago, I really need to loose some weight. I walk around 4 miles per day with my dogs and that's pretty much all the exercise I get (my job involves me sitting in front of a computer screen all day). on my walks I was noticing it getting harder and harder to get around what once I flew round no problem at all, my clothes were feeling absolutely awful on me, almost cutting me in half, I decided to get on the scales the next morning and I felt sick with my self! I weighed in at 20 stone 1lb!! I could not believe it! since then I've been doing the Atkins diet, like I say 4 days now, and so far I have lost 6 pounds! I'm pretty happy about that but I've still got a hell of a long way to go! its not fully the Atkins diet I'm doing, I've just drastically cut down on carbs (cannot cope with decaffeinated coffee lol), and as of tomorrow will be increasing the distance of my walks, hopefully double. I have to say I feel a bit better already, todays walk seemed a little easier, and I've been suffering with chronic heart burn for months, all day every day, and surviving on gaviscon lol. since cutting out the carbs I've not had a hint of heart burn which has been absolutely amazing!
I decided to join this forum for a bit of support and to help support others in the same boat as me, I started growing a beard a while back and joined a forum about beards (I wont mention the name of said forum here), but if it wasn't for the support of complete strangers on the internet I would have shaved the thing off months ago and not have this magnificent beard now haha.
So that's me, I hope to be an active member of this community for the foreseeable future, thanks for reading and hopefully we can all shed some pounds (stones in my case lol) together!