Hi all,
they say that inside every fat woman there is a skinny one screaming to get out. It's true. Up until now I've shut her up with chocolate, but the time has come for me to take myself in hand and shift the blubber I've been carting around for the last 18 years.
My weight has always been an issue for me; once I hit puberty I turned into a chubby teen. I stayed that way 'til I hit 17. I slimmed down a bit at that point but, at 9.5 stone I was still 'the fat one'.
At 26 I had my daughter and started piling on the weight, first the pregnancy weight, then the post-natal depression weight. I reached nearly 15 stone.
A month of starvation dieting took me down to 13st 4lb and there I stayed until my divorce. the divorce diet is always a good one. I lost 20 stones of ugly fat and found myself at 12. 4.
I kept things relatively stable for a while then found the weight creeping up til I was back at 13. 10. I then proceeded to lose the same half a stone about a dozen times.
A back injury stopped that and now I'm 16 stones with very limited mobility.
I need to do something serious but don't know what, exactly. I've tried SW, works when you stick to it but I can't stick to it. I also find it galling to hand over a fiver a week to gain a pound! WW is just way too complicated and calorie counting makes it too easy to cheat.
A friend has just lost 7 stones with Lipo trim and I'm very interested in that diet. However, I think what I really need is a bit of advice and support to help me find the diet that will work for me and get this 100lb shifted for good.
what help and advice can you offer please?
Thanks
Hula
PS I've been reading the forums for the last couple of days and am happy to say I recognise one or two peeps from other forums, I feel quite at home already!
they say that inside every fat woman there is a skinny one screaming to get out. It's true. Up until now I've shut her up with chocolate, but the time has come for me to take myself in hand and shift the blubber I've been carting around for the last 18 years.
My weight has always been an issue for me; once I hit puberty I turned into a chubby teen. I stayed that way 'til I hit 17. I slimmed down a bit at that point but, at 9.5 stone I was still 'the fat one'.
At 26 I had my daughter and started piling on the weight, first the pregnancy weight, then the post-natal depression weight. I reached nearly 15 stone.
A month of starvation dieting took me down to 13st 4lb and there I stayed until my divorce. the divorce diet is always a good one. I lost 20 stones of ugly fat and found myself at 12. 4.
I kept things relatively stable for a while then found the weight creeping up til I was back at 13. 10. I then proceeded to lose the same half a stone about a dozen times.
A back injury stopped that and now I'm 16 stones with very limited mobility.
I need to do something serious but don't know what, exactly. I've tried SW, works when you stick to it but I can't stick to it. I also find it galling to hand over a fiver a week to gain a pound! WW is just way too complicated and calorie counting makes it too easy to cheat.
A friend has just lost 7 stones with Lipo trim and I'm very interested in that diet. However, I think what I really need is a bit of advice and support to help me find the diet that will work for me and get this 100lb shifted for good.
what help and advice can you offer please?
Thanks
Hula
PS I've been reading the forums for the last couple of days and am happy to say I recognise one or two peeps from other forums, I feel quite at home already!