Alia
Silver Member
Hi Ladies
It's taken me a while to post here although I've been lurking in the background and reading alot. I'm not new to the site however I've been on an 'extended' break and am now on a new chapter of my seemingly never ending weightloss journey and feel ready to come back and participate with my fellow slimmers here.
I have had a life time battle with my weight and have never really got very far with beating it. If there is a diet thats been created I've done it even all the faddy ones without success (now there is a suprise!). I've also had weightloss surgery twice! First time went horribly wrong and finally ten years after the first one I had corrective surgery on my original 'stomache' stapling and effectively had a bypass. I'm living proof that weightloss surgery is no guarantee of success and I'm still struggling with my weight issues. After my bypass I did initially lose 6 stone very quickly but then started eating things I should n't have been eating, stopped eating meals and went back to my old habits of living off crap - no suprise really then that 4 of that 6 stone I lost went back on very quickly and I began to feel it as pains that had lessened with my weightloss came back and my mobility worsened.
In February I had a miscarriage and when asking the midwife if there was any reason it happened she told me they could n't really tell but my weight could have been a factor! It was like a slap in the face to me although I did try to convince myself for a few weeks that she was talking crap cause I've got 6 children and have been very big through all my pregnancies and never had any 'weight' related problems while carrying all of my babies. Something stuck to me though cause I started thinking about carrying a baby with all the weight I have on me and all the pain I'm in now and how it would only get worse as a pregnancy progressed and decided that I had to finally do something about my weight and put on hold any plans for pregnancy for now.
I started following the Slimming World plan on the 15th March and since then have lost 2 stone 10lbs.
I'm doing things so differently this time - the way I've gone about things in the past have not lasted and although I'd lose loads of weight in the first couple of months I'd soon come off plan cause I'd be so strict with myself, not allowing myself any treats that I could n't maintain it for long periods of time. This time I'm looking at the bigger picture and having a complete change in lifestyle rather than seeing it as a diet - slow and steady is what I am after and I'm allowing myself treats and using my syns etc. I would like the weight to come off quicker but I'm being realistic, I've got a huge amount of weight to lose and every pounds counts. If I have a bad day thats ok, we all have them and the next day is a new one - previously a bad day would turn into a bad week then missing group and so on and then never getting back into it and coming off plan totally, gaining what I've lost back plus more.
All the support that I can get from Minimins will really help me along my journey and for the first time in my life I'm not considering myself as on a diet but that this is how healthy living should be.
Alia xxx
It's taken me a while to post here although I've been lurking in the background and reading alot. I'm not new to the site however I've been on an 'extended' break and am now on a new chapter of my seemingly never ending weightloss journey and feel ready to come back and participate with my fellow slimmers here.
I have had a life time battle with my weight and have never really got very far with beating it. If there is a diet thats been created I've done it even all the faddy ones without success (now there is a suprise!). I've also had weightloss surgery twice! First time went horribly wrong and finally ten years after the first one I had corrective surgery on my original 'stomache' stapling and effectively had a bypass. I'm living proof that weightloss surgery is no guarantee of success and I'm still struggling with my weight issues. After my bypass I did initially lose 6 stone very quickly but then started eating things I should n't have been eating, stopped eating meals and went back to my old habits of living off crap - no suprise really then that 4 of that 6 stone I lost went back on very quickly and I began to feel it as pains that had lessened with my weightloss came back and my mobility worsened.
In February I had a miscarriage and when asking the midwife if there was any reason it happened she told me they could n't really tell but my weight could have been a factor! It was like a slap in the face to me although I did try to convince myself for a few weeks that she was talking crap cause I've got 6 children and have been very big through all my pregnancies and never had any 'weight' related problems while carrying all of my babies. Something stuck to me though cause I started thinking about carrying a baby with all the weight I have on me and all the pain I'm in now and how it would only get worse as a pregnancy progressed and decided that I had to finally do something about my weight and put on hold any plans for pregnancy for now.
I started following the Slimming World plan on the 15th March and since then have lost 2 stone 10lbs.
I'm doing things so differently this time - the way I've gone about things in the past have not lasted and although I'd lose loads of weight in the first couple of months I'd soon come off plan cause I'd be so strict with myself, not allowing myself any treats that I could n't maintain it for long periods of time. This time I'm looking at the bigger picture and having a complete change in lifestyle rather than seeing it as a diet - slow and steady is what I am after and I'm allowing myself treats and using my syns etc. I would like the weight to come off quicker but I'm being realistic, I've got a huge amount of weight to lose and every pounds counts. If I have a bad day thats ok, we all have them and the next day is a new one - previously a bad day would turn into a bad week then missing group and so on and then never getting back into it and coming off plan totally, gaining what I've lost back plus more.
All the support that I can get from Minimins will really help me along my journey and for the first time in my life I'm not considering myself as on a diet but that this is how healthy living should be.
Alia xxx
