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

OP, don't run yet. You'll knacker your knees. Wait for that and see it as a goal to lose weight for. Fast walking will do you as much good and 90% less impactful on your joints. Give them time to catch up.

Go you!

Good luck girl! You can do it. I recommend Slimming World.

That's the same with any weight loss though. Mounjaro only works if you are in a calorie defecit. As soon as you stop being in a calorie defecit, you'll stop losing weight.

I lost 7 stone 'naturally' in 2020 by calorie counting and exercising....put 8 back on in the last 3 years!

best of luck with your journey 💪🏼

It’s awful isn’t it, when you see the number on the scale and think “right, time to do something about this”.

If I can offer any advice: lifting weights and resistance training is so much more beneficial to weightloss than cardio.

Oh I feel you OP! I’ve put on a stone this year alone - now 11 and a half stone and also 5ft. Another couple of years and I’ll easily hit 14.

Really want to do something about it too.

not me, but I am guessing one of the terminally offended took offence with one of the words you use.

Some people take things VERY personally on this forum 😂The OP seemed to have understood what you meant in the spirit you meant it though?

Who on earth reported my post?!

Why do you think she doesn't need to diet? She is almost double the weight she should be for her height! (Sorry op if that sounds harsh, good luck on your weightless journey!)

The worst problem with weight loss injections is what happens when you stop using them.

You have gone bigger than you wanted to be, so it happens. It can happen again, unfortunately, and easily.

well done with being honest with yourself!

Now the hard bit: it's a very SLOW process, never forget this.
Take progress photos and measurement.
But it will be SLOW.

Think long term, and think sustainable. You can drop a lot of weight in 3 to 6 months, but if you put it all back on and more, what's the point. SLOW and constant.

Exercise is great, but running not brilliant for weight loss: you burn a hell of a lot less than you think, you get more hungry. So it's less calories you need, but ignore the running bit.

Good luck.

5 posts in, and someone suggests weight loss injections. 🙄

Good luck on your weight loss journey @CelticMaiden but please don't automatically start sticking this stuff in your body! At least TRY to lose it naturally with a change in your diet and doing more exercise. Just going straight to weight loss injection is not going deal with the reasons why you got to 14 stone.

I lost 3 stone 3 years ago (and kept it off) on the 5:2 diet. Brilliant way to lose weight IMO. (And I got a fitbit and have done 17-18 miles a week walking since then...) I am so much healthier now, with much more stamina. It's knocked 7-8 years off me too! I've gone from looking 3-4 years older, to 3-4 years younger.

I was your height , and 18 stone 6lb . As of a year ago I’ve lost 11 stone 6lb and gone from size 30 to a size 6. It still feels insane to now be so tiny , but I found the Michael Moseley book fast 800 to be incredibly useful for my weight loss as well as using the saxenda injections for the first half of my weight loss journey . Well done going for a run!! That’s amazing . I still don’t do any exercise now 😂 you can definitely do it op , good luck

Mounjaro. I think you’d be eligible at that weight

WLIs are amazing

I'm just under 5ft and I weighed 10st 9lb, I had a bmi of 29 and diagnosed with a fatty liver. I was introduced to Nutracheck by a friend. I'm naturally lazy but portion control enabled me to lose weight and I'm now 8st 7lb with no sweating. It costs £34.99 for a 12 month subscription which works out at 9p a day.

Good luck op. Im similar height and started at 16 stone. Now just under 14 stone. Im taking it slow. Joined slimming world a year or so ago and aim for 0.5 a week. Some weeks I lose, some I don't. I don't have healthy relationship with sweet food so trying to retrain myself too. Its a journey I tried every other diet out there and don't mental energy to constantly count calories.

Exercise always been problematic as tend to go all out then give up so started with doing x number of steps a day instead and focus on maintaining that for a couple of months. Then try adding walks in. Again sw has movement goals which are helping me

I find the faster I lose the faster I put back on. I did fast 800. Dropped 4 stone. Couldn't maintain and put more on.

I had some antibiotics that did that to me when I was a kid but ever since I've had different ones and it's not happened again. Wish I knew which ones 😂

What does the voting mean? At the moment it looks like the majority voted YABU. Does that mean people think you are being unreasonable to go on a diet? Or that you are unreasonable to post it on the internet?

The AIBU format is so confusing sometimes.

Personally I think you don't need to diet (if that's even the question being asked).

No my stomach has been upset but basically I have no desire to eat. Stopped them on Saturday but appetite has yet to return. Only have a mild ear infection.

Did they make you sick or something?

This is tongue in cheek but go on antibiotics- I've lost nearly half a stone after 3 days on them. Luckily I was ten stone so not quite so overweight but now down to 9 and a half ish

You too. I know there's hard work involved, but I think you're right starting with a gentle run. We'll only screw up if we try to start with unrealistic and unmanageable goals.