What motivated you to get into shape?

[Anon20201]

Really at low point. Start diet every Monday and by mid week break it. What motivated you? I have zero willpower and break quite easily. How did you break the cycle?

Took a photo of myself in bra and knickers
Being honest with myself
Good luck

Feeling breathless and covid.
I've tried to fast and have extremely light lunch eg miso soup and then whatever I feel like for dinner.
Also tried to move more.
I'm doing very little and it's definitely working, I feel lighter. I'm not weighing.
I'm not counting calories.
I start and say by 4th week I'll see results . Sofar so good. I hate feeling breathless.

Watched a video back of me playing with DD, my face and double chin just looked horrific. I was carrying about 1 stone of baby weight and 2st of 'i changed to a job where i sit on my ass all day' weight.
I been doing minimum 20km a day on my exercise bike, trying to improve my times, and cut right back on calories/meals. Ive managed to shift 13lb in a month.
I know its not sustainable long term but will do until i can get into the gym and can increase meals and a more varied excercise program

Well done @Gin4thewin

My problem is sheer greed
I even get greedy on Atkins

I stood on the scales and was totally horrified. I was 2 stone heavier than the heavy I already thought I was. I weighed myself daily after that. If you struggle with motivation I completely recommend dAily weighing. It's too easy to ignore for a week or 2 otherwise and you can undo good work very quickly. Also, try a diet where there is quick initial loss. I did the blood sugar diet. I found that initial quick loss of a stone very motivational.

Yes good luck @Anon20201 update us and we’ll motivate you

I have reached breaking point and was considering total meal replacements. I also was though finding a new healthy lifestyle that was sustainable forever was the key- now I just want to shift the weight as quickly as possible - 2 stone to start then another 2 after that if possible.

This is after years of yo yo dieting and nothing has worked for the last year despite going to slimming world. So i quit slimming world due to lockdown. Slimming world stopped working as I wasn't strict enough and became complacent. It is a great diet though. It didn't work for me dh loves cooking.

I did this:

I enlisted dh as my coach (!) he is slim, exercised a lot and eats what he wants.

Decided that before an extreme lipotrimmdiet I would do slim fast which I did years ago successfully.

1 shake a day, 3 x 100 calorie snacks and a meal in the evening with pudding totalling 1200 cals.

Bought a new diet book - WeightLoss tracker - from Home bargains and got dh to fill it in with me including inches, meal plans and fill it in religiously. Realise is drink too many alcohol calories.

Downloaded Nutracheck and used that instead of MFP as much easier. It's a week free trial but I will pay for it now as it's worth it for me, 3.99 a month.

It's weigh and measure day today day and had sneaky early measure and have lost 10'cm from my waist!

Record all calories even if 'just' 15 calories like an apricot or a single Haribo!

Have a list of treats and have them each once a week only max one per day and within my calories. Eg chocolate, crsips, cake, toast, ice cream.

Realise that I will be hungry but that is ok.

It's only week one and I am about to
Weigh in! But I realise I need to stick to this for 12 weeks and hope to lose 24lb in that time.

Good luck.

furrydog I get that, I'm redeployed onto a covid ward and seeing the struggles that plus size patients have even wjeb they are young, has given me a real kick up the backside.

When I got on the scales and realised that at 5 foot I was 11st 5lbs!! After 10 weeks I’m now 10st 2lbs, aiming for 8st 7lbs. My clothes were getting tight and last summer I had such bad chub rub, it was really sore 🤦‍♀️ Also, my inflated belly made me look about 5 months pregnant!

All I’ve done is have smaller portions, literally no snacks (don’t even buy them) and aim to walk 5-10k steps per day. Haven’t found it too hard tbh. Just slow going really.

Every woman in my family has type 2 diabetes and many of my in-laws and parents' friends do too. Once you hit 60, you can't change very easily, and it is a gradual downhill of ailments and pain as far as I can tell. I wanted to stop my back aching constantly and not have to ever hear the words "flattering floral drape dress", which is all my older relatives seem to wear.

It took a year, but I lost two dress sizes by exercising hard 20 mins 5 days a week, getting rid of the car (bike or walk everywhere), filling half my lunch and dinner plate with salad and eating a can of beans every day.

I read something about how most people eat the same volume of food daily, but healthier people eat more fibre and veg and lower sugar fruit so I tried that and it has worked well.

Morning everyone hope you’re all good. I’ve started my diet today. So far I’ve had one Tesco slim shake, will have another at lunch and then whatever the family is eating at dinner time (I’ll try to make it healthy!). I know some of you might disagree with my method but I’m going to try this for I hope a week and then try switching out the shakes for healthy stuff.

I just feel so fat and sad today, my elasticated maternity trousers are too tight for me! I weighed myself today and I’m not going to write it down here but I’m heavier now than I was in my third trimester. My youngest is 2 now (nearly 3) so it’s not baby weight it’s just greed and laziness on my part. Thanks again for your support and hope I don’t overdo it with my daily posts! I feel this will help talking about it.

Morning, why don't you start a meal replacement thread in weight loss chat, I will join you.

I will join a meal replacement thread in Weight loss chat too

I've never been in to sports or exercise, but always very busy and active and doing things. However, one thing that brought this to my attention was a good friend of mine gradually putting on a few pounds year after year after year after year. I just don't want to be like that. I've met her sisters a few times, and they are trending the same way, so there might be an element of genetics?

@cherrypiepie shall I make a thread in weight loss. I'm starting meal replacement today and would love company.

@Anon20201 Don't despair! Ok, despair but let it be the shove towards something better that you need. This is not the low, you've started noting, you've started a thread, you're looking at and sharing your feelings, you've taken action - the low is behind you now you are heading up. Do what you think you need to do, we have to start somewhere whether or not it's the path we stay on. Head down and give it a few weeks, you will feel better. You are doing something. You have started, keep going, we're right behind you

@today118 yes absolutely I'm doing slim fast and 1200 cals.

@cherrypiepie I will make the thread now. Come and find me!

I went to the gp for a blood test as I want feeling right, it came back that I was pie diabetic. I was gin smacked as I walked the dog for a at least couple of miles everyday briskly and my bmi was 24. However I had a biggish stomach. I low carbed down to a bmi of 19 and my blood sugar went back to normal and I felt much better. I looked much better weight wise, my doctor was pleased too.
Diabetes is a horrible disease in so pleased to have avoided it.

@today118 I can't find it right now will check again later

@Happydaysforever123 pie diabetic and gin smacked love it

Sorry I couldn't resist - we'll done on your health improvements. It is hard to lose weight when you are already quite slim.

@cherrypiepie sorry I can't link from my phone. Thread title is slim fast/meal replacement starting today in weight loss chat.

Well done for starting OP. For me it was an unflattering hairdresser's mirror 4 years ago. I was late 40s and 4 stone overweight for my height. I had a family to feed too, so nothing separate to them was going to work. Spurred on by the principles of 5:2 I googled main meals 600 cals or under that I could add carbs to for the family so that the basic meal was the same for all of us. I also signed up to My Fitness Pal and started couch to 5k. My mantra became 'fit by 50' and after 9 months I was 4 stone lighter and running my first 10k. And I was 6 months off my 50th!

5 years later I eat normally (the new healthy normal) and I still run. I've put on 6kg from where I got to initially but I'm still bang in the middle of the right bmi for my height.

Good luck OP. You can do it. You will do it!

Thank you so much everyone it’s been lovely having all the positivity. Today and cherry I’ve found your thread and will be positing on there shortly! I’m a little embarrassed but I have to be honest I just had 2 cupcakes. BUT it’s actually less calories than my shake would have been. Gosh it’s so hard and I’m such a greedy pig

@MrsFrankDrebin that’s amazing!