Thread: Getting to know you......... :o)

Hi Everyone, I am 48, 2 girls 23 and 19, two boys 26 and 19. Happily married to my DH for 28 years and running our family business together for the last 6 years.The three younger ones are still all at home. After years of really bad health following the birth of the twins (who had put a big strain on my lungs and caused some damage) I spent many years on high dose steroids which saw my already overweight bod increase to over 18stone. Miraculously my GP discovered a anti allergy pill that clamed down all the problems with my lungs and I went from taking up to 60 puffs on the inhaler, 8 nebulisers and 60mcg of prednisolone to - NOTHING!
Decided then that I had no excuse to stay fat and got down to around the 14s, since then I've gone back and forth, up to 16.5, back to 15.2. all over the place really.

Now I just want to quietly get on with life and lose slowly and steadily till I am where I want to be. Sounds really easy when you put it like that doesn't it?

Love Barb xxx

Hi there

I'm Helen. I'm 51, been married for nearly 25 years and have 2 boys aged 19 and 14. I'm a musician, private and school music teacher.

A lifetime of yoyo dieting led me to Cambridge in Sept 2004. I lost just over 7 stone and maintained until Feb 2005, when I decided to do it again to lose another few pound. Ended up losing 8 stone in all. Continued to maintain.

I don't follow any diet as such now, just try to be normal....well...in my eating habits anyway

HI there I am Louise. I am 23 on the 29th this month, fed up of been FATTY and not been able to wear nice clothes... I have put on 5 stone in 4 years (since moving in with partner). I want to get slim to set a date to get married and for personal healthy.

My partner has twin girls (6 this year) who I love to pieces, hard to imagine a life before them now.

I work in Finance and have done since leaving school, hopefull will become a part-qualified accountant on the 21st Feb this year and are now studying towards CIMA (Management Accountancy), and I also do joke that 'I have never experienced a overweight management accountant'. I want to joy of getting qualified and buying a nice suit that fits in all the right places.

I will hopefully be joing the CD in mid Feb .

Hi everyone,

It's great to read about everybody, really good thread Julie!

I'm Tracie, single mum to 5 girls (10,8,6,5,3)

Soon to be divorced from their dad.

I live in Cambridge but not born and bred here though.

I think my being the size that I am stems from a feeling of not liking myself very much.

I married the man who I thought was my soul mate but he had several affairs and he hasn't seen his girls for over a year and my girls do not want to see him.

I have no family around so there is no family support and I think I used food to keep me company when the girls had gone to bed.

I lost 6 stone a few years ago, but Ive put it back on bar 2 stone.

I'm a frequent re-starter on CD and this time, Ive been doing it for 17 days.

I don't get my body, this may make no sense to people but, for example, when Ive stuck to say CD or LL 100%, I don't lose alot of weight.
When I did LL, I stuck to it 100% in the beginning and I was the one in the group who lost the least, however, one night, I ate a chicken kebab and had very small nibbles throughout the week and at my next weigh in Id lost 6 lbs.

so, its a vicious cycle for me, coz as soon as it gets to the stage where I'm not losing, or it seems I'm not losing after sticking with it 100%, I give up and start eating!!

I'm trying to break the cycle this time, just going to stick with it and hopefully it'll sort itself out (oh forgot to mention that as well as the scales not moving, my inches weren't either!!!)

So, thats me, I want to get to the stage where I feel confident in myself and I can go on the playground and feel great.

To not have all the local kids around where I live telling my girls that their mum is fattyfattybumbum and that if they're hungry its coz their mums ate all the pies!!!

So, I'm hoping its my year, to get the figure I want, get healthy and make the life I want for me and my girls

Tracie

Hi Im Sonya 37 yrs old, married 15 yrs with 2 boys 12 and 9yrs, Im a registered childminder, originally from Nottingham but been living in Plymouth for 6 1/2 yrs. I am also just about to start an open university course "children in the early years".
I have been over weight since I married and moved to Germany for 6 months, then put on 5 st with first son due to pre-eclampsia. And it just went up and up from there really.
Well after a great summer and seeing my hubby and kids on fair rides, swimming etc I have decided I have had enough of sitting on the sidelines watching them have fun.
So here I am 9 weeks into Lipotrim and lost 3st 10lbs so far.

Nice to meet you Big-pudding

Hello Everyone

I'm Amanda, 36, and live with my partner in SW London. We're getting married soon (5 months and one day - yes, I'm counting!) which is my reason for starting LL.

In the last 18 months, I've put on over 4 stone (an achievement I'm almost proud of in a weird way, not many have put on so much in so little time!!!) and want to get rid of at least most of it in time for the wedding photos!

I was intoduced to LL and this website by one of my dearest friends, who has been an inspiration to me, whilst I've watched her complete 100 days of LL and shrink before my eyes.

Am on Day Four at the moment, and struggling a little. Getting headaches and feeling hungry, although it's not as bad as I thought it might be.

It's amazing to read of everyone's losses as well as see the before & after photos, it's helping me keep on the straight and narrow!