Anyone interested in joining WWB on a weight-loss support thread for the REAL heavyweights?

[WigWamBam]

I can't take the credit for this as it's not all my idea ... but I think it might be a good one and wondered if anyone else with a LOT to lose would like to join with me and suejonez to shift some weight?

I'm not talking about being a size 14 and needing to lose a stone - I'm talking people who are size 22+, those who have a really serious amount of weight to shift. Skinny minnies need not apply - I'm thinking that maybe we would have to be a minimum weight or size so that we know we're all in the same boat together, and we know that everyone on the thread understands how we feel and the problems that we face once we make the decision to lose weight. Perhaps people who need to lose at least 5 stone?

I weighed myself today and have scared myself with what the scales said, and so sue's email couldn't have come at a better time - but I am hopeless at dieting on my own, and thought that maybe the support of others who understand about having lots of weight to shift would be good. As suejonez said in her email to me, we know all about losing weight, we've probably done it a dozen times before, we know exactly what to do and how to do it. We don't need to be told what to eat or how to eat it, we just need the support of people in a similar position to give us the nudge that we need to get on with losing the weight. Standing in front of a WW leader is daunting, maybe owning up to your weight to me would be less intimidating (well, maybe not ... ). But at least you'll know that I have as much (and probably more) to shift.

If anyone's interested we could have a weekly weigh-in, whether we post our weight on the thread or just the weight loss would be something we could think about before we set up the thread. I would be happy to have people email me their starting weight and their loss, so we could have a weekly round-up of how we're doing. We could even do something similar to WeightWatchers - set interim targets, get a virtual gold star for every 7lb lost, you know the sort of thing.

Come on, I know there are a few of us very large women out there - shall we do something about it?

rofl!

well...I did it - I re-joined SW last night and then went for a walk! I was dreading going back as I am 2 stone heavier than I was when I joined last time but I made the move and am rather pleased with myself. I am also going to walk to playgroup today which is a 2 mile round trip on a hilly route pushing 62 pounds of toddler in a graco tandem!

Very impressed, suejonez! Have a halo

And well done for taking the plunge again, schneebly.

Don't forget, if anyone wants to email me their starting weight, the addy is [email protected] - if you don't then that's fine. Wednesday is weigh-in day so if you're going to do it, now's the time.

Hi everyone

I don't post too often as it tends to be when at work so with work being part-time and also the need to actually do some work sometimes I do tend to disappear for a few days at a time.

I am really keen to do this though as although I've lost quite a bit of weight recently I am beginning to lose the plot a bit and I know from past experience that after most of the the weight has gone is the difficult bit.

Yesterday I walked into town and back (about 1.5 miles each way and the walk back was partly uphill) so I feel good about that. I also walked to the shops/park in the afternoon - probably another mile or so.

What I am struggling with at the moment is the 'well I look a lot better now' syndrome and I am beginning to start sneaking foods like biscuits etc back into my mouth. What I need is a sensible approach and to deal with my emotions rather than eat through them.

Eg. A few days ago I was having a bad day and got an overwhelming urge to eat cake. I actually baked flapjacks (oats,sugar, butter and golden syrup) since there was nothing of the sort in the house and ate 12 of them after they were cooked. This is my first binge since starting on this diet but the desire to eat was overwhelming. The positive side was that the next day I was back on track and I didn't beat myself up about it.

Next time I will try and do something different -go for a walk, punch a pillow anything - then if I still want a cake I'll have one - though I will reaslly enjoy it rather than stuff 12 in my mouth one after the other - at least that is what I will try and do.

I currently weigh 13st 3lbs though I was 17st 7lbs before starting the weight loss.

Good luck everyone

Sh1t a brick...

18st 7lbs (BMI 37). To hit a BMI of 25 I'd be around 12st 7lbs.

6 stone to lose

Well, at least I've started...

(Realise others have more / less)... just a bit shocked to see the number cold like that IYSWIM... one step at a time...

My WW goal (set up last week) is a 10% loss of body weight (ie 16 st 9lbs) which is more achievable I guess.

I have about the same to loose hub2dee - at least you are doing something about it! I want to shift this weight so badly - it would be nice to have a 'proper' bump when I have another baby (god willing!)

My dh is coming to SW with me next week btw!

I think its fantastic that your dh is going too, you can support each other. I think its so much harder for men to join that kind of club, however hard we find it, they find it harder. My brother is massively overweight with early onset diabetes and I can't persuade him to go.

You can only do it for yourself, I suppose, as we've already said.

Yes, it deffo wasn't easy walking through that ww door. There were no other blokes, although FIL is joining / coming with us tomorrow !

DW came to and has a fair amount to lose. She'd like to lose it to heolpfully avoid blood pressure complications for any subsequent babbas...

It's frightening when you see those figures and weren't expecting them. Still, we've made a start, and things can only get better from here on in!

Still feeling very fired up about this and determined to shift some - taking one day at a time.

Hub2dee - its really worth staying to the full meeting rather than running off after being weighed like many people do. It kept me on the straight and arrow and became much easier as you got to know people there. I fell off the wagon when my local WW closed and I never uite managed to get to another.

Good for your FIL - you can hold hands and keep each other company!

Hoping to get weighed at Boots in my lunch hour today.

Hi all,

I'm also on schneebly's thread but have also been lurking here and would like to join in too :). I am about 16st and need to loose 5 stone to get to the top end of the normal BMI for my height. Over the last year I've gone from a comfortable size 18 to a size 20, but my size 20 clothes have started to get snug and I don't want to go up yet another size.

My weight has been stable for the last month or so after piling on a stone rather quickly and I have stopped obsessivley weighing myself every day.

I eat loads of healthy food but I eat loads of unhealthy food too - I have a problem with food in general which I need to address.

WWB could you post the email addy for sending weights to? Will weigh myself later and send you the horrible results .

Tangerinecath - it's [email protected] (although Hub says that's sexist ... but I thought that lardyarses@hotmail might not go down too well )

Blunderwomen - I'm the same size(s)(!) as you, and I've been going top the gym since 11th Jan 2006 - DO IT!!! Honestly no-one gives shit -
ok, I feel self conciuos when I'm bobbing along on the cross trainer dripping with sweat, but it gives me such a good feeling when I see trhe timer get down to 3mins and I know I could give up but I keep on moving till my 25mins are up.

I couldn't even move the cross trainer when I first went! (you are actually pushing your own body weight - which as we all know on this thread is a considerable effort!)

I lost weight, but have slipped into bad habits food wise and its started to creep back. I can't pretend its easy but I go, do my three times a week, sit and read the paper and pick up woo from the creche and feel hood about myself for the rest of the day -unless bad things happen and then off i go to the shops.

I actually cried during my induction when rthe very lovely steve asked me what my motivation was - basically I had to say to make sure I'm either alive or even just able to run around after my boy without passing out.

DO IT DO IT DO IT - wanting to is half the battle.

tangerinecath - are you me???? We are same size and weight and have similiar food issues!

I think I need to change my name to BigBraveGirl - I weighed myself at Boots in my lunch hour (full of skinny city girls buying their lettuce sandwich) IN PUBLIC .

Brace yourselves...

21st 8lb

Actually pretty much what I thought it would be.

Can you add that for me WWB instead of sending you an email? I'm sooooo lazy (no surprise there then...)

I have no cake or cheese left in the fridge so no excuses left. Diet starts tonight.

Oh God.. its gone very quiet.

Have you all fainted?

Good on you, Sue - I dug my scales out last night too, and it was as I feared. Still, managed to get through this morning without a snack (bad planning, rather than willpower!), and had a slightly smaller than normal lunch (still a bit of chocolate, though). Will have to try to get through this afternoon with a healthy snack, and I've got to make cakes for a cake stall tomorrow. Could be interesting.

Ok - not fantastic on the food front (3 squares of chocolate and a bag of crisps), but had a tuna/rice thing for lunch and one slice of toast & butter for breakfast and am making spag bol for family dinner - will drain all fat off meat and add loads of veg. However, I have been to the gym this morning and done 30 mins exercise on treadmill and bike, hopefully cancelling out the chocolate!

I am 13 2 in a morning

was almost 15st last year so have lost a bit already

I am doing well today so far

Am still too scared to step on the scales, but determined to eat less rubbish for a week or two, and do more exercise. Hopefully will be feeling braver by then.....

I don't think three squares is bad?! I don't even think a packet of crisps is that bad! Are you counting the calories? I'm not suggesting that you should live on crisps or chocolate but if you work out the calories, you could probably have three of four squares every day and still lose weight. I'd limit the crisps though or have them instead of the chocolate.

Last time I lost a lot of weight I had a packet of fruit pastilles every time I needed a sugar fix (every other day!) and lost weight perfectly well on it.

Yeah, this is what's interesting on the WW plan... previously I have survived / dieted on willpower IYSWIM - eating healthy fruit / veg / salads; juicing like a madman, being saintly in denying the 'bad' stuff etc... and kept this up for maybe six months... but I found I just couldn't keep it up... at some point I wanted something 'nice' (read crap - like crisps, choc etc.) and so you taste a bit, and then before you know it you have acquired the taste and regained the weight (and usually more)...

Now I'm sitting here thinking about my points allowance remaining for the rest of the day, but I know I can have (more or less) anything within that allowance, so I'm thinking 'only one of two of those little choccie bars' (or whatever) when ordinarily it might be one, followed by another, until they're gone.

This kind of awareness feels vaguely interesting, LOL...