...I'm Laura, 30 yrs old. I have about 3.5 stone to lose. I gave up smoking a year ago and have been piling on the pounds ever since! I am planning to start Weight Watchers (from home) for my new year's resolution and am pretty geared up for it! I've joined MiniMins for extra support and I've been and bought some new scales and I'm going to design myself a food diary and weight loss tracker. I've done WW before and lost 3 stone about 5 years ago. About 6 months ago I tried again but was really struggling, the pounds did not seem to be shifting this time around and weight loss was really slow. I put it down to slow metabolism due to age and not smoking! Anyway this time I plan to exercise more, in the form of walking and hopefully I can shift this blubber. I have felt awful for months, none of my clothes fit, I feel unfit, bloated and photographs look awful so I'm camera dodging and being a bit anti-social as I feel ashamed at my size and also I have no nice clothes and don't want to buy new ones in larger sizes !! I am going to weigh myself on 2 Jan and am determined to succeed