Oh, can I join too?
I lost around 5st last year up to September (I didn’t weigh until March but know what I weighed when I was a size 18, I was up to size 20 when I started), then maintained more or less until I stayed at my mother for three weeks over Christmas / New Year - she’s a feeder!!! - and put on 2kg in that time.
As of this morning I am 66.8kg and I’d like to get down to 60kg. (At my lowest years ago I was 55kg but constantly dizzy with low blood pressure). That woukd put my BMI at 22.
I was big as a child, then a size 12 as a young adult, before going up to size 18, down to 8, up to 20… At the moment I’m back at a size 10/12. You get the picture… But it won’t be long until peri (I’m early 40s) so I need to do it now!
Over three years I have travelled a lot for work (around 100+ days a year, internationally) with long days and crap food, which has made things worse. I’ve been able to change roles internally last year, which has massively helped, but now looks like I’m back to travelling again a fair bit, which will make it challenging. I’m also wfh (office 1x or so a month if I’m not travelling), which means very little movement during the day.
I have bad GERD with both, silent reflux and more traditional symptoms, so a lot of healthy things are off the table (most fruits, tomato-based dishes…), which is also not helping. On the upside, I also can’t eat a lot of rubbish without getting symptoms, not that this stopped me at Christmas, lol! I had to control it with Omeprazole though, which I have stopped again now.
I’ve been calorie controlling, done a lot of walking (suffered a bit in the wet and cold season) and have started C25k.
Good luck everyone on your journeys!