Alia
Silver Member
I was wondering what was the final thing that made you realise you had to start a weight loss journey and make some huge changes in your life.
I’ve been overweight since being 2 years old so it’s nothing new to me. I’ve probably tried every diet plan, the advisable and the totally insane, plus I’ve gone through two major weight loss surgeries, both clearly unsuccessful.
Aside from my weight loss surgery my last serious weight loss journey was with SW about 6 years ago and I lost 6 stones in 3 months. (I say serious as I can’t count the number of times I’ve joined SW since then and lasted a couple of weeks only. In fact I’m ashamed to admit I’ve even joined a couple of times and not even gone back for the first weeks WI). I was so strict with myself that it clearly was n’t sustainable over a long period of time and when I came off the rails I came off big time and was unable to get back onto the plan and quickly gained the 6 stone I had lost along with many more. I hate to think of the number of stones I’ve lost and gained over the years – what a waste!
The final incident that happened with me that made me start this, my final journey was the most painful and one that I never would want to go through again or wish on any one else. At the end of February this year I was pregnant and suffered a miscarriage, my first one. Having got 6 beautiful children it was not something I ever thought would happen to me, I’d kind of convinced myself that I was immune to it. When I asked the midwife why it had happened she said that we would never know and it was just one of those things but my weight was most likely a factor. :cry::cry::cry: I spent a couple of days in denial but after lying in bed while my miscarriage completed I started thinking deeply about what had happened. After chatting to a friend about doing a weight loss programme together we started the SW plan on the 15th of March.
This is my final journey, it has to be!! I can’t carry on the way I was living; in fact I was not living, I was, and still am in constant pain day and night and having to survive on a cocktail of very strong painkillers on top of lots of other medication to. I only went out when I had to or when I went to buy more rubbish for me to eat. I could not play with my baby son and was miserable and grumpy with everyone. I want a life, I’ve got 6 children who I want to see grow and move on to have families of their own. This is my drive, my motivation – quite simply to be normal and do the things that ‘normal’ sized people do.
I will go off track, I will have gains and maintains but tomorrow is a new day and I have to get right back on track. I will complete this final journey but it will be a life long change, not something temporary, something that will allow me to live out the rest of my life in the comfort that I and my family deserve.
xxx
I’ve been overweight since being 2 years old so it’s nothing new to me. I’ve probably tried every diet plan, the advisable and the totally insane, plus I’ve gone through two major weight loss surgeries, both clearly unsuccessful.
Aside from my weight loss surgery my last serious weight loss journey was with SW about 6 years ago and I lost 6 stones in 3 months. (I say serious as I can’t count the number of times I’ve joined SW since then and lasted a couple of weeks only. In fact I’m ashamed to admit I’ve even joined a couple of times and not even gone back for the first weeks WI). I was so strict with myself that it clearly was n’t sustainable over a long period of time and when I came off the rails I came off big time and was unable to get back onto the plan and quickly gained the 6 stone I had lost along with many more. I hate to think of the number of stones I’ve lost and gained over the years – what a waste!
The final incident that happened with me that made me start this, my final journey was the most painful and one that I never would want to go through again or wish on any one else. At the end of February this year I was pregnant and suffered a miscarriage, my first one. Having got 6 beautiful children it was not something I ever thought would happen to me, I’d kind of convinced myself that I was immune to it. When I asked the midwife why it had happened she said that we would never know and it was just one of those things but my weight was most likely a factor. :cry::cry::cry: I spent a couple of days in denial but after lying in bed while my miscarriage completed I started thinking deeply about what had happened. After chatting to a friend about doing a weight loss programme together we started the SW plan on the 15th of March.
This is my final journey, it has to be!! I can’t carry on the way I was living; in fact I was not living, I was, and still am in constant pain day and night and having to survive on a cocktail of very strong painkillers on top of lots of other medication to. I only went out when I had to or when I went to buy more rubbish for me to eat. I could not play with my baby son and was miserable and grumpy with everyone. I want a life, I’ve got 6 children who I want to see grow and move on to have families of their own. This is my drive, my motivation – quite simply to be normal and do the things that ‘normal’ sized people do.
I will go off track, I will have gains and maintains but tomorrow is a new day and I have to get right back on track. I will complete this final journey but it will be a life long change, not something temporary, something that will allow me to live out the rest of my life in the comfort that I and my family deserve.
xxx