dream2bhealthy
Member
Hi everyone
I am officially joining Slimming World tonight - got my Bella voucher all ready and cant wait to get started. I thought I would start this to keep me on track on my journey to lose weight and get healthy.
A bit of background about me - I have been overweight ever since I can remember and got bullied at school terribly because of it, to the point where I used to skip loads as I could never face going in. As I grew up, I gained confidence as gained friends outside of school and tried to think I was happy being so overweight (was about 19 stone at this point).
However I have realised the effect that this extra weight has on my health. I have problems with my knees and get out of breath just walking a few steps. What kickstarted myself wanting to get myself healthy is the fact that my doctor stated my blood pressure is sky high. My dad has this and has to take numerous pills which I want to try and stay away from. He also has had to get operations on both his knees because of his weight. My mum and my gran both also have diabetes and my grandad died in his 50s due to heart disease.
I think I have suddenly realised that if I want to live a healthy life I need to shift the weight and hopefully in doing this I will set a good example to the rest of my family.
I wish you all luck and will post my journey and food diary here, weekly weigh ins etc. Starting tonight with my starting weight once I have been to class!
xxx
I am officially joining Slimming World tonight - got my Bella voucher all ready and cant wait to get started. I thought I would start this to keep me on track on my journey to lose weight and get healthy.
A bit of background about me - I have been overweight ever since I can remember and got bullied at school terribly because of it, to the point where I used to skip loads as I could never face going in. As I grew up, I gained confidence as gained friends outside of school and tried to think I was happy being so overweight (was about 19 stone at this point).
However I have realised the effect that this extra weight has on my health. I have problems with my knees and get out of breath just walking a few steps. What kickstarted myself wanting to get myself healthy is the fact that my doctor stated my blood pressure is sky high. My dad has this and has to take numerous pills which I want to try and stay away from. He also has had to get operations on both his knees because of his weight. My mum and my gran both also have diabetes and my grandad died in his 50s due to heart disease.
I think I have suddenly realised that if I want to live a healthy life I need to shift the weight and hopefully in doing this I will set a good example to the rest of my family.
I wish you all luck and will post my journey and food diary here, weekly weigh ins etc. Starting tonight with my starting weight once I have been to class!
xxx