Need to loose A LOT of weight.... fancy joining me?

[phoenixflower]

I need to loose half my body weight to be considered a healthy weight.

Started today and would love to support and have the support of others!

Who fancies joining me?

I'm starting today. Healthy eating, fairly low calorie low carb etc. Just really not eating too much! (My biggest downfall).

Have 6 stone to lose.(Bloody hell)

Would it be okay for me to join in too? I have 5 stone to lose and am beginning to struggle with any physical exertion.
I do no exercise at all so will start with that although very gently.
Will also cut out all take aways.
Will have to see if there is ww near where I live, am sure there will be.
Thanks for this thread btw, I have be in denial for about 3 years about my weight.

Can I join please? need to loose around 6st to be considered 'healthy'

Have no idea where to start though.

Can I join too, I've got approx 10 stone to loose, daunting prospect. I lost 4 1/2 stone a couple of years ago on WW but put that on and more when my relationship broke up.

I eat for comfort

I've started so well, but just arranged to meet a friend and have lunch out with the children. (It's raining so something nice to do.) Will have to try very hard to be good!

Hello everyone! Glad to see so many people joining as i think it'd be great to see this thread continue and not die off (like most of the threads i join do!).

I'm really hoping that the support we can give each other will help keep us motivated. Just knowing that there are other people out there going through the same things and facing the same temptations will hopefully keep me strong. I've been pretty crap the last few days so need all the help i can get!

My problem is that i can eat quite well and fairly healthily for meals and when i'm around people, but then i binge on sweets/chocolate/cake when i'm on my own. It's disgusting but i feel compelled to do it - i switch off my brain for a while and only think about what i've done when it's too late. and then i copound the problem by think 'ruined it now, might as well pig out until i restart the diet, cos then i won't be able to eat all these nice things'. It's so stupid and you thinkl i'd learn from past mistakes, but i don't seem to. Anyway, hopefully that is in the past.

Good luck to everyone. Of course we can all do it, just take it one day at a time .

Silver, I do exactly the same. Was at my brothers for two weeks and ate so healthily because i had an audience IYSWIM.
The first meal I had when I got in was a take away and have binged in private for a week.
Ive been out for lunch once and dinner once this week too and have mastered the art of leaving food on my plate and making healthy choices.... but who am I kidding? I am about 5 stone heavier than all my friends! I feel disgusted too but like you appear to be able to suspend reality while Im over eating.

Am also a thread killer too. Are we related?

crisproll2 quite possibly! and when i don't actually kill a thread i usually just get ignored, so i tend to lurk more than post usually.

i often eat in the car but DS is 2.4 now so getting to the point where i think he might tell tales on me!

Welcome everyone that has joined!

StudiousSal- I am aiming for the same amount of weight loss, is a very daunting prospect for me right now!

I saw a video of myself today and I look pregnant. The biggest part of me by far is my stomach and I look massive! That and my double chin!

What part of your body being overweight do you hate the most? For me it's the double chin. If My face was thin, I wouldn't mind so much about my body!

The what part of your body question was for everyone, sorry if it looked like it as under sal's name!

I eat way too much, a gross amount sometimes, feel pretty out of control food wise.

Does anyone else find when they are out of control with their eating etc, other areas of their live get out of control too?

e.g. My washing pile is HUGE right now, I need to tidy the house more often... though I think part of the problem is, if I don't do it, no-one else wilL!

Hi Phoenix I really can't decide what is worse - my double chin, my tummy or my legs! Tummy is huge and I do look pregnant. Legs are so ugly, I only ever wear baggy trousers now to hide them. But I have the same problem that you mentioned with my face/chin - it makes me look so bad and I hardly recognise myself sometimes. I am so self conscious when I meet new people and I live in fear of meeting old colleagues or old school friends as they'd be shocked, or worse not recognise me ! You just can't hide or disguise your face, can you. Yes, I think that my face being fat is the worst.

This time last year I was just getting started myself. As of this month I am 4 1/2 stone lighter and finally in the 'healthy' range. Keep your goals in sight and GO FOR IT!!!

Hi Phoenix and everyone else, I hate my double chin too, however in my case I fear it could be in my genes, my mum and my brothers who are not overweight all have them!

I also hate my bloody fat ankles, god I'd love to be able to wear lovely slinky sandals, maybe I will one day....

I hate my tummy....its disgusting. Covered in stretch marks from pregs and hangs over my c sec scar. Hubby wobbles it and says flubberlubber when he's being mean :(
Also got a roll above my bum which I hate..just a line of flab that sticks out between my bum and waist makes me look a really stupid shape!

Glad to know I am not along in disliking my chin! When I comment on it to DH, he always says it doesn't look as big as think it does but I think it's just the fact he is a lot more used to seeing it than I am. I don't look in the mirror often so others see more more than I see myself iykwim. When I say that to DH he gives me a - he just doesn't get it!!

I am glad we can all support eachother here. RL support is thin on the ground for me. When none of your family and friends are fat, they don't seem to get it! My best friend is stick thin and eats what she likes and when and never puts a pound on. < jelous >

I don't like anything from the neck down, when I think about it, to be honest. So I just don't think about it! Worst is my tummy. Actually, I do like my hands & wrists .

God mrskitty we are so similar! My hands and wrists are also the one part of me that I quite like and an not ashamed of. I must have put weight on my fingers as my wedding ring is tight, but fingers are quite long and nice shape so they still look alright.

Anyway, I've been crap on and off during the week and not even counted mu points but now am back on track since Friday. Went to a christening yesterday and managed to stay within points - even chose fruit salad instead of coffee renoir! So feeling v proud if myself as I really thought i'd end up 'giving myself a day off' which is where I always trip up on diets cos it never ends up being one day.

Hope everyone else is doing ok? I def think this thread has helped to get me back on track. just knowing that other people are managing to do it helps encourage me.

Phoenix it's nice that your husband is reassuring and trying to stop you worrying about your chin. From what I hear many partners aren't quite so lovely! Luckily my DH is also v nice and diplomatic - I sometimes think it would spur me on to diet if he were less accepting of me but in reality I'm sure that if he were critical I would just feel more upset and depressed and not find it any easier to diet.

I need to join too keep joining these threads and then never coming back again

I have seven stones to lose too. I am not on any diet yet but thinking about Slimming World or my own diet of three sensible meals a day.

Phoenix - I can relate to feeling out of control around food - especially if it's a "trigger" food such as crisps - I have no stop mechanism. It's crap isn't it? Am a real emotional eater too.

Hi jollypirate. I've found this thread quite useful and it's nice to have somewhere that I can bs honest about my awful eating habits with people who understand (or even if not everyone understands it's likely that they have issues of their own, so hopefully can sympathise). Good luck with whatever weight loss plan you choose.

Ooh well done sticking to points yesterday Silver28 - I always go to these things with good intentions but more often than not end up at the buffet table too many times... I'm determined that this time around things'll be different though and that I will actually manage to really change my eating habits and attitudes to food.

You've reminded me,actually, I've not been able to wear my engagement ring since I got pregnant (DD is now nearly 1), and my wedding ring would probably require surgical removal at the moment .

Hi JollyPirate and anyone else joining the thread...hope things are going well for you .

Right starting on Monday, I'm healthy eating, and when I get paid (not till the 25th!!) I'm joining slimming world, it's no good it's got to go! The girls at work are also joining me, and are being sooo supportive, they've told all the carers no more cakes, biscuits, goodies etc, as we are all in this together, it does help thanks girls. Also with the extra support of MN's I know we can do this.

I'm going to add my weight so that you can see my starting point.........

21 stone 4Lbs shit there I've done it, well I've got to be honest no more saying I look ok, as I don't.

Hi all I started going to slimming world but had to stop going as I could not afford to go anymore. At my first session I was so shocked at how much I weighed that I nearly cried. I managed to lose a stone by following the extra easy plan. Due to a lot of stress a foot injury, and not going to group, I suspect I have put it all on again. I need to lose about 7 stone, I will check myself on the wii fit tonight.