tonight I confonted my demon-I have come back from first slimming world

[weighheyhey]

shocked and in tears. I joined up on my own, I was utterly terrified. It's a massive group, I think there were at least 40 people there who stayed and another 20 that didn't stay.

I haven't been on the scales for 3 years and I have a stone a year to show for it.

I am now 11st over my ideal weight and I am shit scared for my health.

My goodness, i'd like to say it feels good but right now I am overwhelmed. The diet looks great but I have simply got so much to lose. I met a woman tonight who has lost 6.5 stone-she is still bigger than I am but she gave me hope. It's taken her since Jan last year.

I start to eat right tomorrow-for tonight it's a glass of wine and an early night.

Which thread do you recommend I join for support along the way? I will need it.

Well done weighheyhey!!!!!!!!! That must have been really scary, especially going on your own.
I have never done slimming world, have done ww before, but found that going to meetings really motivated me.
The weekly weigh thing gives you a goal each week, to eat well and lose some weight. And remember everyone there wants what you want too so you might meet some great supporters and friends.
Not sure which thread on here is most active though I think a poster called Shiney runs an active one.
Good luch and well done you xx

Weighhey... just wanted to say well done for going to the meeting. I am at WW, and we have a very active thread which is very friendly.. We would welcome you with open arms, but you would probably find a SW specific thread more helpful as you come to terms with the "rules". Nothing to stop you dipping into lots of threads!

You are so not alone, there are loads of people on here who need to lose a lot of weight. Stick at it and good luck

weighheyhey, anything is possible. One day at a time :)

I think there's a SW thread but it's going through a wee quiet spell just now.

I am joining SW tomorrow btw. Good luck!

Well done, that first meeting is hard. I go to a SW meeting but do follow WW as I find it better for me but don't want to give up the support of my SW group as the people are lovely.

One lady there has lost the best part of 10 stone in about 40 weeks, she is unrecognisable. I'm taking much longer to shift weight and am at 47lbs plus anything I shift at WI today since July but that's fine, I will get there, have much the same to lose again.

There was a SW thread 'starting SW part 2' going, think it is still going. Good luck, take it day be day and if something doesn't quite go to plan, draw a line under it and move on. Learning to do this is the thing that is different for me compared to previous attempts.

weighheyhey - I lost 5 stone with SW - it can be done - take it a day at a time & speak to your consultant (either at the class or on the phone) if you have ANY queries - that's ehat she is there for.

GOOD LUCK

Good morning weighheyhey how are you this morning?
Just wanted to let you know you have motivated me, I have a 10 week Ds and hve been eating everything in my path. I need to loose approx 3.5 stone so am going to stop eating rubbish I dont need!
Hope you are having a great first day am off to boil an egg. xx

Hi all, thank you so much for your support. fannybaws-I'm so amazed to have inspired someone with my sad sorry little tale. Be nice if we can be diet buddies at least for a time-you will reach target long before me but it's nice to know i have someone to talk to along the way.

I have had a good day-made a few rookie errors with my syns but I still have enough for a glass of wine tonight. I have eaten loads! All bran fruit and milk for breakfast, jacket spud with salad and loads of king prawns for lunch, slimming world chicken curry and rice for dinner.

I am buoyed up because a friend has just announced the birth of her baby this afternoon-she has had the most wretched pregnancy and they thought theyd lost him but he's fine and healthy and doing great so I'm full of joy! Time for that wine!

Heres to tomorrow.

Ah well done you sound like you have had a great first day.
You have inspired me, I have had a good day too have eaten 3 normal meals and NO crap hurrah.
Just watched the bbc 1 trek fo red nose day and was in tears, amazing really.
Am delighted to be a diet buddy

hiya weigheyhey.

ive just started looking at the sw plan, not brave enough for meetings yet, some good friends got me the books through their meetings, i am starting tomorrow, as is dp but hes considerablly lighter than me, i think i need to loose around 10stone, if you want to inbox me we can complain, rejoice and bumble through it together

brill jj I shall do that! I was so scared of going to that meeting-I cannot tell you how my guts turned to ice when I saw how many people were there, but they seems lovely and the fact it's such a big group is testament to how lovely my consultant is. She called me last night and was a real star I have to say, we were on the phone for 20 mins.

I am hoping to be a flagship for my mum who has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and in a very helpless negative place about her weight and her diet-maybe if I can drop a stone or two she may join me.

The doctor has offered me orlastat (sp) if I go back in a month with a weight loss to show for it-anyone had that before?

Just trying to figure out breakfast then taking my dd off swimming.

well done fannyB we can do this!

just replied weighheyhey

im waiting for my own gp to return to surgery for a proper weightloss consultation im hoping some kind, well any support she can offer!

have fun swimming

im also hoping to inspire my mum, shes in a negative place too after a consultant hinted that her son being stillborn and two mcs were weight related.
my aunties keen to do it too so we shall see

Hello fellow curvy ones, especially weighheyhey, I am 6 stone overweight, and started SW this Monday (not going to groups as babysitting so DH can go, and I am still bfing). I have not been following it particularly well as was in hospital Tuesday night with suspected septic gall bladder!

I previously lost 8 stone, but it has crept back with a change in job, love, marriage, kids and turning 40 I did it on my own, but following very similar principles to Extra Easy.

I too have been looking for a lively SW thread - you could always start your own? I think you already have a few takers!

Very welcome stinkypinky

Indeed it seems I do! well I guess this is the start of a thread thing-but do you think I should another?

Going out for chinese tonight which sadly is fairly unavoidable as it's my best mates birthday and been planned for ages but I have only had a couple of syns today so i'm going for prawn garlic noodles which apparently are 5 syns a portion.

I'm also going out for dinner on tuesday too-DH and I have "date", no daughter, tickets for Elbow and a night in brum. I am so excited and theres no way I'll be following SW if my hubby is taking me out for a very rare evening indeed. I should have started next week!

but having said that the whole point of the pshychology of SW is not to deny yourself those things, just accept that you need to make adjustments elsewhere so i reckon if I am saintly and a have a few syn free days next week all will equalise!

jj can i just say how utterly horrible and irresponsible that consultant of your Mum sounds. Guilt is not going to help a habitual overeater in anyway shape or form!

A thread with SW identifiable in it, which I guess it is! Or you could link to a new one with a natty title like....

SW - Weighheyhey to Woohoohoo!

welcome stinkypinky!

its great to hear from someone who has managed a great weightloss even if a bit crept back. i do sometimes think if its all so easy and these amazing stories are true why arent we all skinny, but i realise it takes hard work and determination.

weighheyhey, he was a bit of a twonk, she asked though as shed refused to see a dietician and he said well you possibly should have she, took it all wrong. plus my step dad is a bigger twonk and told her no diets he loves her as she is etc, which in theory is nice but her health is far more important imo, we lost my grandma to cancer caused by excessive smoking i want to make sure i dont cause my own death, needing to loose 10 stone to touch normal at 22 is disgracefull

Weighheyhey I am so jealous of your night out it sounds amzing. I saw elbow a couple of years ago and they were magic, so enjoy.
Fell off the wagon last night after a very stressful evening with small childre, mine!
Am back on today though as am ging to loose this weight and buy a pair of jeans that I LOVE!!

well ladies It seems i have managed a night out and been really good, boy was I hungry though until the mains came.

I had a gin and tonic with slimline, noodles and ginger prawns with spring onions. I ate 5 prawn crackers and my syns for today are only 10 1/2! I'm actually really chuffed-previously on weighheyhey to woohoohoo (I love this title btw) it would have taken all my will power to sit through a meal like that and be controlled but I actually enjoyed the feeling of being in control-even when every tucked into thier dim sum platter starters and the amazing looking icecreams. i would have got quite depressed about it, but i'm doing good.

Gotta keep it up-little by little!

Well done weighheyhey, little by little is going to be my mantra too I think. Had a good day yesterday one low fat yougert in the evening instead of anything I could find! Just made a lovely veg soup to have with my lunch, and gave teenage Ds half my sandwich because it really was too big for me.
Going to have stirfry for tea and no wine tonight, think I might just have one gass every other night for a while.
Good luck today

well done weighhey, sounds like lovely meal!

doing well so far here, didnt count syns properly yesterday and ended up with 19

so went on a huge walk this morning to make up for it.

im planning to visit my docs this week to enquire about help, ive been advised on here that they offer gym memberships, how can i ask for that without sounding cheeky? or am i not being cheeky because atleast im trying.

still feeling positive and living off melon,kiwi and apple as a snack, sure does make you pee ALOT

Jj, well done on your walk. I have been on one today too, very pretty countryside round here. I went on my own, I walked much faster & further than DD could cope with!

Dont worry about those syns, it's so easy to miscount. I have done it, I figure as long as I keep counting it it keeps me aware of it. If I dont then thats when it gets away from me. I actually hope this diet becomes a little more second nature soon, I'm finding all the planning food a bit of a hard slog!

I have never heard of doctors offereing gym memberships. Sounds good though-hope you get it!

apparently if you have a council gym and are overweight and prove youre trying to loose weight they will, the ladies here told me and my friends mum is currently in reciept of it.

my two can walk forever but not to fast, i figured just doing it at all was a good start, just signed up two different friends for swimming with me one night a week.

Im finding the thinking about what i put in my mouth a bit of a pita but each day i find i remember a bit more and ive got alot more energy so its gotta be good. Im hitting the pineapple tonight as todays melons not ripe enough but im suprised how much im enjoying what i eat and feeling full, craving chocolate again though

Hi can I join you?

I am going to first SW meeting tonight. I weighed myself yesterday so I didn't get a huge shock tonight and ended up in tears. Was dreadful and can't even bring myself to tell my DH my weight

I lost 3st many years ago on SW so I know it works, but in the intervening years, I have put that all back on, and a load more, and had 2 DC.

I am dreading it, but have a fridge full of Muller lights (are they still free? Hope so) and just made a fruit salad

hi littlemiss.

i was weighed at the doctors, in front of dp and i cried, i have no idea if he saw, i hope he didnt, but im very ashamed.

anyways im following sw but not attending meetings.

do you mind me asking how much you want to loose? ive got 10stone to shed

anyway, im finding sw really good to follow and eating tons of fruit and veg which is already an improvement and im walking loads and plan to start swimming too.

Good luck and stay positive