To declare that I’m 14 stone and 5 ft?

Nah I don’t take any WLI but it’s not as high as 50. I think it’s something like if your BMI is obese over 30 or over 27 and you have a a weight-related health condition such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, pre-diabetes or heart problems you’ll be eligible.

My starting BMI was around 32 but I’d never been keen on using them so I didn’t go for it.

Not under most trusts. You need Comorbidities, or surgery etc, if your BMI is under 50.

Good luck OP!

I’m 5ft 2 and was almost 13 stone in 2022. It was the heaviest I’d been but it was obvious how I’d got there - consistently overeating , sugar binges and lack of activity over the 5 years leading up to it. Things especially spiralled during the pandemic.

I’m no expert but these are some of things that have worked for me: Reducing the amount of takeaways I’d have from almost every day to a couple of times a week and cutting back on things like cakes and chocolate had a big impact in the first month and I lost my first half a stone.

I now rarely eat takeaways and mainly just cook my own food. My typical dinner is Salmon, mackerel, chicken, or turkey mince with veg and brown rice. I try and stick to two meals a day, the first meal is often something like oats, eggs and sourdough or french toast. Smoothies and Greek yoghurt fruit bowls are good for my sweet tooth, so I usually have them later on during the day.

I’m now 10 stone 7 and really want to lose another stone this summer. My weight loss has been slow with ups and downs and plateaus but I’ve done it without weight loss injections etc and have really had to confront and unpick my emotions since I was an emotional eater.

Listening to what’s really going on beneath the hunger pangs has been so invaluable. I feel more confident in myself as well in the sense that I’m able to say no to consuming things that feel good but aren’t good in the long term.

If I get a bad sleep my cravings are often out of control so sometimes I’ve just had to use sheer willpower to fight the cravings!

I give myself grace as well, yesterday I was so sleep deprived and I ate a lot of the biscuits that I had in for guests. It is what it is - today is going to be better!

ETA: I’m not currently attending the gym and haven’t for a couple of years now, but I hope to start back soon. For now I do very low impact home workouts or use my walking pad. I get about 6K steps a day but I’d like to be doing 10K.

Good luck OP! I lost a lot of weight through intermittent fasting. If one method/diet doesn't work for you definitely mix it up.

You can sort this! I was nearly 14 stone last September. Got on the monjaro and am now 11 stone 10. It's made a huge difference to how I feel about myself and so glad I did it.

That’s the issue with every ‘diet’ isn’t it? Be it fasting, Weight Watchers, WLI’s etc. I’m taking Mounjaro and have no immediate plans to stop. I will start on a maintenance dose next month and go from there.

Mounjaro. It still wasn't easy but 100% worth it. Lack of food noise was the key. I still feel 'fat', and I'm in no way skinny - I do think it's a mindset and something I still need to work on.

Nutracheck is excellent.I'm 5ft 1 and around 10st 8lbs.
I'm vegan and can struggle a bit with my diet being too carbs heavy so keeping a watch on my carbs ratio is good.
I'm going through a lot of stress around multiple close family bereavements and illness at present so I'm focusing on not gaining weight. There does need to be a weight loss but I have to be realistic in the short term.
Best of luck to the op.

This is great advice. No need to go on a crash diet/injections etc etc. Protein and fruit/veggies will give you filling meals and high volume whilst being lower calorie.

Start tracking what you eat. Aim to reduce it by 150 cals a day for a week and see how that effects your weight.

Walk more, get into a gym and lift some weights to help build some muscle (for SO many health reasons) and find what your motivation is, and use this to build discipline and habits.

Take measurements as well as weight. Often if you start moving more, measurements will change quicker than the scale, but will all help show you progress.

You can do this! Don't go for quick fixes, small, measurable changes will literally change your life!

Well done!
How did you do it?

This time last year, I was over 14 stone (was too scared to get on the scakes to see how much over!) And I'm only 5ft 2.

I now weigh around 9 st 11 and wear a size 12. Would never have believed it was possible honestly, so I just wanted to say, you can and you will do this! Good luck 👍

You weigh too much...so do I. It's not a reflection of your character or moral compass. There are far worse things you can be in life.... despite what society tries to tell us.

I am 5'5" and 15s 4lb. I have been walking most days for a year and have been on a low carb diet for the last month but the needle on the scale isn't shifting. I am currently waiting for the results of a thyroid test and if that's negative I will be asking my GP about weight loss medication. Good luck OP 🤞

Yep, this was my height/weight. I've lost a little bit. Good luck OP.

"Simply eating healthy food" was how I stayed at around 13 stone odd for many years. My appetite is an extremely unreliable narrator, particularly when it comes to losing weight - it's great at telling me what I need but not consistently eating less than I need for a long period! Particularly when I do a fair bit of exercise as well, it's hard to balance.

The amount you eat is absolutely key therefore calories play a part. However protein and fibre intake is absolutely key.

There is a local nutritionist who says things like "just eat healthily" and to be fair has lots of good recipes. But when I calorie counted their meal plans they were also low in calories as well as high protein and fibre.

I find that if you get a fitness watch that you can link to an app to track what you're eating and log everything, it helps. Mine reminds me to get up and go for a walk every hour, a couple of 10 min walks soon adds up.

Lost 2 stone on 800Fast and then started Montjaro and am another stone down in 10 weeks. Currently 13 stone . Am sticking to the 800Fast principals but have been on holiday so put on 3 lbs when away. My weight come off very slowly.
I would like to lost at least another stone in the next couple of months.

Good luck

OP I am your height and trying to loose weight. Two threads on here have helped me a lot. The sustainable weight loss group where we improve habits rather than trying to loose quickly with dieting, and the petite weight loss group. It says in the title for those a healthy weight trying to get to their happy size. But there are all sorts facing a bigger battle because being short means our sensible portion size is described as competitive under eating on other threads.

Good luck with it all.

My recommendation.

Plan your food, stick to sensible portions, eat tons of fruit and veg, cut nothing out. Don't be defeatist when you have a splurge day. Find an exercise you enjoy or tie it to something you enjoy but don't have time for (running with an audio book or dance classes, or boring work outs but with a friend you don't have time to see very often). I have lost half a stone this year, slow but steady and have at no point been on a diet. I have changed my eating habits though and upped my exercise through simply moving more.

Download the my fitness pal app and calorie count! You need to work out your TDEE loads of calculators on line for this. I suspect you need to reduce your calories to between 1200 and 1500 a day to loose weight. Look online for healthy eating plans

I started a 'diet' about a month ago now. I used to use myfitnesspal but I am using mynetdiary this time I find it much easier to use. I got a 50% off deal and went with it.
I've been loosing about 1lb a week. But I am getting back to much healthier eating habits. I am also keeping my cals at the higher end because I am still breastfeeding.

I've taken some progress photo's and done measurements this time too which are really motivating.

You can do it OP!

Silly question bit can you just go to boots and get weighed? I thought you had to be part of one of their medicated programs. I definitely need to get weight properly and can't do it home (uneven floors/carpet)

After suffering for years with disordered eating and going through periods of gaining and losing weight but never being able to keep it off I finally about two months ago started my journey to losing weight in a healthy way.

This time I’ve started from 12st 10 which is my heaviest and I’m currently at 12st 1. I am already feeling the benefits health-wise being much less tired and aching a lot less too. I’m almost 5ft 3 and I would like to be around 9.5 st but would like to do so without becoming obsessed (like I usually do) and it taking over my life. I think the important thing is that it’s not about how quickly you lose it, it’s about being healthy and losing it in the right way in order to realistically be able to keep it off. The fact that you’ve starting taking that giant leap is amazing! I don’t have any useful advice, I just wanted to post in solidarity and say a huge well done because it can be such a mammoth task mentally to get started.

It’s easy to get downhearted by the fact you’ve only managed to lose a small amount each week or sometimes none at all but if you consider it the beginning of a lifestyle change for the rest of your life then you will eventually look back and how quickly it came off will be of little consequence when you’re at your healthy weight. Progress is progress, no matter how slow it may seem.

Good luck with everything . I lost 5 stone and am now 12 stone at 5 feet 9 so just within the normal range. ( this actually happened as a result of ill health so not a good way to lose weight ) . But I wanted to let people know that it is best to try to separate weight and self esteem ( not easily done I know ) because this weekend a man hurled an insult at me calling me a fat tw*t over a parking incident. Even though I am no longer overweight it hurt deeply and was obviously designed to be cruel to a woman.