Why did you join?

I have alsways had weight issues even during childhood. I have spent most of my adult life yo yoing up and down although i would say mostly being overweight.

I have always managed to lose weight with ww, but this time i was losing .5 lb a month!! even when i was exceptionally good so decided i needed to try something else.

Thats where SW came in. I have realised that my weight loss is going to be slow but still better than ww and i do not feel deprived or even that i am really on a diet.

I keep telling my dh that i have to stick to this as i dont want to be 40 and fat. I turn 40 next May so have a year to sort it and i am determined to lose the weight again and most importantly keep it off!!
 
I wasn't feeling too happy in myself with the weight I was, but the more I was unhappy the more weight I was putting on. Then I saw a picture of myself just after christmas and was mortified!!!! Never knew I actually looked that bad! decided then I had to do something about it!
 
I was always slim before I had children but then the genes took over, it has now got to the point that I am so self conscious and think that everyone is commenting on my size and that I no longer want to socialise. I then realised that it was up to me to do something about it and here I am.... xx
 
I am trying to lose the baby weight from my second daughter who is 6 months old only 1/2 stone to go for that, once i've done that i will start on losing the baby weight from my 4 year lol

Ha ha - I often say it's hard to lose the weight after pregnancy and I have grand children!
 
I joined, as over the past 4 years in Uni I have piled on the weight! about a stone a year! Its my graduation in July and I really really want a nice photo!

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Apart from hating the way I look and feel- the thing thats finally made my mind up is simply because I desparately want a baby.
 
I did SW years ago & lost 6 stone. Kept it off for 5 yrs, then had my dd & the weight's just crept back on. I'd start a diet on the Monday & be off it by Friday. Every week, religiously, so I didn't really lose much at all (a stone in 3 months which isn't a lot when you're very overweight). TBH I wasn't too fussed, but then I noticed my second (adult) son was gaining quite a bit of weight. So I suggested we went together, which we do. I bought us both a 12 week countdown which I look on as an investment, to keep us goingl

I want to be able to enjoy my little girl, to go to the beach & run around with her, instead of constantly making excuses. It's bad enough she has an old mum (I was almost 39 when I had her), without an old, fat mum who has no energy to play with her.

Mostly, I just want to be around to see her grow up :)
 
because I looked hideous and felt like crap with my intake and knew emotionally eating was not the way to deal with my problems.
Also not allowed the pill with my BMI (although that don't matter now as I don't like taking any artifical hormone treatment due to unsucessful weight gain as a result)
 
I went for my annual tablet review last year and they told me that if I didn't sort out my weight I'd not be able to keep taking the pill. As I have antiphospholipid syndrome, which means I'm on warfarin for life, I cannot give up on the pill as warfarin has some really nasty side effects on developing embryos and if I got pregnant and caused deformities by accident, I'd never be able to forgive myself.
So tried it alone, got nowhere, and joined SW and am now 1st 9.5lbs lighter so far. :)
 
I joined after xmas, because I went to go back to work and put on my fat jeans and I couldnt do them up. Not even a little bit so I could go to work in them...I had to go to work in leggings =(.

I've always said id like to lose weight, and have tried WW a few times but never lasted more than a few weeks. After xmas a friend and I decided we should join something, and she suggested WW or SW. Because i'd already done WW and hated it we tried SW and I almost feel cheated I hadn't discovered it sooner!! I'm on my 12th week and I have absolutely no plans to stop anytime soon! Will be buying another 12 weeks when my current countdown runs out!

I decided that it's time I lost weight anyway. I'm 20 and I've never been smaller than a size 14. People always talk about wanting the figure they had when they were young back and I've never had that!! If I'm not going to feel young, energetic and sexy now, I'm never going to!! I'm turning 21 in July and I'm having a party and I'd love to be able to wear a fabulous dress and feel like a proper princess! =D. Plus I've got a holiday booked this year, with boys and girls. Which I've never done before!! and even though the boys are my friends, I dont want to be this fat in a bikini infront of them!!

I just think its my time to be skinny :) x
 
Before having my daughter 5 years ago ialways struggled with my weight, i was a size 16 and 2 months before i found out i was pregnant finally got into a 14. I had the completely wrong attitude whilst pregnant, thinking it doesnt matter i will lose the weight after i have had the baby. This never happened, in fact the total opposite, i put on more weight.
Then in January this year i just decided enough is enough and asked my mum for her slimming world books as she had just hit her target and doing it at home first for 2 weeks i lost 7lb so the following week i went along to a meeting and havent looked back, im 2 and half stone lighter than at the beginning of January and am loving every minute of it.
 
I've been overweight since I was about 10 and obese for god knows how long! I've always tried to eat healthily and exercise when I can, but I was obviously going wrong and I just didn't know what to do. A friend of mine told me about SW and donated a starter pack to me and gave me loads of advice. And around the same time a friend from another forum had started losing weight with SW. Then my friends told me they were getting married (one of them I consider a brother) and asked me to be bridesmaid :eek:
And that was that. I decided to give SW a go and see what happens. I am determined not to be an unhappy, fat bridesmaid!!! The bride is a size 8 and her maid of honour/the only other bridesmaid is a size 10....which has helped to keep me focused :p
I am also losing weight for my health too as I have a heart condition and it would be lovely to go for my review and show them all how fit and healthy I am :D
 
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I have recently lost about one and a half stone with weight watchers, but have gained about seven of this back quite recently, so have decided to try slimming world, which i have previously tried many years ago, hoping for the same successs again.
 
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