please help an obese mum

[jnbsmum]

I'm 24 yrs old and i weigh 17stone. i feel so low and i dont know what to do. i'd join ww but as a sahm with 2 young children its not that easy. I have no family support around as my brother and sister do not speak to me and my mother is a nun.(quiet an embarasing thing to admit). My dh is 6ft 4 and only weighs 13st so as you can imagine i look like a whale next to him. I am seeing a dietician at my local hospital in the next 2 weeks but that doesnt stop me feeling so low. does anyone have any suggestions at all as to how to pick myself up again

WW online? You don't have to go out to classes and they have a good points tracker. Or couldn't your dh have the kids for an hour once a week while you went to the classes?

I don't think it's embarrassing to have a nun for a mum by the way!

It's sooooo miserable when you're fat and unhappy about it. See what the dietician suggests, you can do WW on-line if you think that would suit you. I have found it very helpful, I didn't even realise how wrong my portion control was until I started weighing everything for WW.

Come and talk with us on the long term slimmers thread as well, everyone's very nice there and not at all stern and disaproving (even though they talk about whips a lot ).

If you have young children my top tip is to get into the habit of putting anything that they don't eat straight into the bin and not your mouth.

could try ww online. dh works funny shifts (hes a bus driver) Ihear ww is good so i'll try that one. As for my mum being a nun it's a new thing and still trying to get used to the idea. thanks countessdracula

bran I'm new to this so unsure how to use the thread. sorry bit blonde

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jnbsmum - click on topics (at the top of this page), go to the Big/slim/whatever weight loss club and then look for the thread that says 'calling all long term slimmers'. Then just say hi, and introduce yourself. You can ask for advice or whatever. There is also a rolling mumnets mamas thread which has a new thread for each week and people post their weight loss for that week, again you can ask any questions or just ask for sympathy and people will reply.

Thanks yorkiegirl. great to know im not alone.(i know that really you just only notice the thin people around you when your large) I guess all i need is the support of other people really

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sorry again im new so not sure what CAT means??? I live in south yorkshire

Rotherham to be precise

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17 stone? god thats not as bad as you make it sound

we' ll help you out
Its deciding to start doing something about it thats the hard part
lets rename this htread

I agree with Coddy ! It's getting started that's the worst bit!

There's no limit to the number of support threads you can join in the Mumsnet Big/Slim/Whatever Threads so please come and join us at Mumsnet Mamas, we're on Week 35 now and we will offer you extra support and encouragement.

You can do it!!!

Hiya feel free to come and chat to us on the long term thread anytime. It is horrible knowing you have to lose loads of weight but some of us are so much worse off! Honest

There is so much support here it is really really great and I have never spent so much time talking about stuff which was really quite hard in rl.