Loz1986
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My name's Loz and for the last couple of years, I have been thinking about my weight. It had never really bothered me before - I was fat and happy! But it is starting to bother me now.
About 2 years ago, I started a more desk-based job (I'm a nurse and used to be kept busy running around our huge ward and moving patients around the hospital, I now work as a specialist nurse, see patients in my own clinic and sit at a computer most of the day). I didn't really alter my eating habit so have continued to get heavier and heavier.
I weighed myself in work yesterday and was disgusted to find that I weighed 148kg. I'm ashamed even writing that down. I want to lose weight, I don't really know how much exactly, but I know it's going to be a lot. I need to get my BMI down to below 35 (about 114kg - I'm very tall), other than that, I think I will see when I get there. I currently have a BMI of 45.1.
I see patients at work who are coming in for bariatric surgery who have a lower BMI than me and who are a hell of a lot lighter than me and I find that quite upsetting (I'm not a bariatric nurse specialist, by the way).
I have two main motivations for this:
1 - I turn 30 this year. I'm not going to get down to anywhere near a BMI of 35 by the time I turn 30, but I would like to be well on my way.
2 - I plan to have IVF next year and need to have a BMI below 35 for that.
My third (minor) motivation is that my sister has recently got engaged. She hasn't yet planned a date for her wedding, but she has asked me to be her bridesmaid. I don't want to be huge for that (unless it's a result of motivation number 2!).
My birthday is in October (23 weeks away), I'm not too sure what I could realistically lose before then? 20 kgs (44lb)? 25kg (55lb)? That would bring me down below the 127kg I was for a long time. I would like to be below 127kg - I would be in the teens then in stones! And I know 30's not old, but I am getting older. I see a lot of patients at work with medical problems as a result of being overweight, and I really don't want to be one of them.
I'm not planning on following a particular diet. I just want to eat healthier, cut out a lot of the rubbish foods from my diet (I love chocolate) and I'm going to try and up my exercise (not difficult - it's really non-existent!). There is a reasonably priced gym near where I work, so I'm working up the courage to join there. I used to love going to the gym in school - I loved the cardio machines, and could quite easily beat the boys on them, even though I was overweight back then, too. I want to get back to that sort of level of fitness.
About 2 years ago, I started a more desk-based job (I'm a nurse and used to be kept busy running around our huge ward and moving patients around the hospital, I now work as a specialist nurse, see patients in my own clinic and sit at a computer most of the day). I didn't really alter my eating habit so have continued to get heavier and heavier.
I weighed myself in work yesterday and was disgusted to find that I weighed 148kg. I'm ashamed even writing that down. I want to lose weight, I don't really know how much exactly, but I know it's going to be a lot. I need to get my BMI down to below 35 (about 114kg - I'm very tall), other than that, I think I will see when I get there. I currently have a BMI of 45.1.
I see patients at work who are coming in for bariatric surgery who have a lower BMI than me and who are a hell of a lot lighter than me and I find that quite upsetting (I'm not a bariatric nurse specialist, by the way).
I have two main motivations for this:
1 - I turn 30 this year. I'm not going to get down to anywhere near a BMI of 35 by the time I turn 30, but I would like to be well on my way.
2 - I plan to have IVF next year and need to have a BMI below 35 for that.
My third (minor) motivation is that my sister has recently got engaged. She hasn't yet planned a date for her wedding, but she has asked me to be her bridesmaid. I don't want to be huge for that (unless it's a result of motivation number 2!).
My birthday is in October (23 weeks away), I'm not too sure what I could realistically lose before then? 20 kgs (44lb)? 25kg (55lb)? That would bring me down below the 127kg I was for a long time. I would like to be below 127kg - I would be in the teens then in stones! And I know 30's not old, but I am getting older. I see a lot of patients at work with medical problems as a result of being overweight, and I really don't want to be one of them.
I'm not planning on following a particular diet. I just want to eat healthier, cut out a lot of the rubbish foods from my diet (I love chocolate) and I'm going to try and up my exercise (not difficult - it's really non-existent!). There is a reasonably priced gym near where I work, so I'm working up the courage to join there. I used to love going to the gym in school - I loved the cardio machines, and could quite easily beat the boys on them, even though I was overweight back then, too. I want to get back to that sort of level of fitness.