To think it's not possible to lose 10 stone at home with no help?

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Is it?

@HelenaDove - most people don't have medical issues preventing them from losing weight tho

Even when i was coming down from 21 stone i got stuck at 17 stone 9 for 3 weeks. In hindsight my body was trying to tell me something "slow down or you will get ill" Instead of worrying about judgy fuckers we should listen to our bodies.

I still got stuck at 17 stone 9 for 3 weeks and didnt lose any in those 3 weeks And then it just started coming off again.

And i should have listened to my body.

I lost 10 stone 16 years ago.. I got gallstones and it got so bad i couldnt eat SOLID food. i went through months and months of excrutiating pain and A + E admission. In and out of A + E for TEN MONTHS. then doctors coming to my home to give me morphine injections whenever i had an attack . Finally a doctor prescribed me morphine pills which melted under the tongue that i took every time i had an attack. First attack was 3 July 2002 Scan was on 19 Dec 2002 after months of A + E admissions . Early Feb 2003 i got a letter telling me id have to wait for ANOTHER YEAR. I cried my eyes out and actually considered suicide. It was only after a private consultation with a surgeon and then another admission to hospital and an NHS appointment with the same surgeon that my op was promised within 6 weeks It was done 5 weeks later on 28 April 2003.id lost 8 stone by the time i had my op. The surgeon and two doctors told me it was caused by losing weight too fast. (slimming world) The pain was excrutiating and the first attack appeared after id lost nearly 4 stone. Back then i had no idea fast weight loss could cause gallstones I was losing a stone a month and whenever i did try to slow it down i either stayed the same or gained.

I actually did seriously consider suicide especially after i got the letter telling me id have to wait ANOTHER YEAR. I thought it was beyond cruel especially when id lost the weight by myself with willpower.

i believe due to mixing tramadol with as many over the counter drugs as i could in the early months to stop the pain i have been left with long term issues and its also left a bitter taste in the mouth TBH. Im grateful for the NHS but i was in so much pain i was thinking of overdosing (which i was bloody close to anyway) i also think the fact i won Class Slimmer of the Year and started to appear in our local papers may have been a factor in me getting the op sooner than that awful letter said but i shall never know.

Getting used to ASing now the basic search function has gone.

I may be being unfair to the OP and if I am I apologise. But I very much fear that what she wanted to hear was that no, it absolutely isn't possible to do it without support so she might as well carry on eating the way she is and not bother trying

Yes, this is why I asked. I'm worried the op wanted to be told it couldn't be done, to have her view validated, and she's not engaged further because people have said, yes it can.

Op, come back and engage, there is lots of supportive people here.

it is very possible to do

but if the last time you tried to lose 5 st, you gained 5 st instead, i would suggest you have no idea what youre doing and would benefit from some professional help or do some proper research

In some ways it might be easier. Rather than have someone else's rules restraining your choices

but if the last time you tried to lose 5 st, you gained 5 st instead, i would suggest you have no idea what youre doing and would benefit from some professional help or do some proper research

Right on. You don't lose weight bench pressing cheese burgers!