Support, encouragement, motivation and nagging needed! Please!

[Bzrb]

Right, I need every bit of help, support and motivation I can get. I need to lose weight. I have to lose weight. I want to have children and due to unrelated weight reasons I need to have fertility treatment and at the moment my weight is stopping the doctor from doing this. I enjoy eating and when I bored I eat. I also eat my feelings and as I’ve discovered, my feelings are very high in calories.
I saw a photo of myself when I stripped and joined in at a nudist beach. I was at my heaviest then, 17st 2lbs. We hadn’t meant to go to a nudist beach but when we got there I thought I really should give it a go. I hadn’t realised how awful I looked.
I now weigh about 16st 7lbs. I have a bmi of 34.97 which puts me right at the top of the obese class 1. I need to be at a bmi of 24.9 or lower. That’s at least a 5st loss. Thing is, this is getting me down and when I’m down, I eat. Please please help me.

have you tried a Facebook group because there isn't a lot of traffic on mumsnet

Hello - over half the battle with losing weight is getting your head in the zone, otherwise you just won't stick with any eating plan. Sounds like you're there, and ready to go, which is brilliant.

Have you tried weight watchers or any other plan before? Is WW right for you, do you think? The best way to get started is to go to group or go online online. There's a large community on the WW 'Connect' section of the app as well as facebook groups as wilma says.

You absolutely CAN do it, you just need to work out how you want to get to.

It's a life-long thing...there is never an 'end' to it when you have emotional issues linked to food. You need to re-educate yourself, train your brain and body, and it will take a LONG time. It's easy to slip into old ways and you'll never be 'off' your diet...so don't think of it as dieting. Think of it as looking after yourself, being healthy, having a positive relationship with food and giving yourself good nutrition...the weight loss will follow as a consequence :)

Thank you xxxx