How serious are you?

[maybebabypowell]

I have been a fad dieter for as long as I can remember. I have ALWAYS been overweight. I was a size 16 when I left school. I am actually very happy with who I am and what I look like.

For me there are 2 reasons I want to loose the weight and the reason I am so determind to shift it this year.

1) I am going to Florida in 7 months and I do not want to be chaffing for 3 weeks in the heat and I want to feel "normal" at the water parks.

2) The most important reason if all though is I want a baby, we have not used contraception of 6 years and we are still waiting! I have always been a bit half hearted but was told my the specialists unless I can get my BMI under 35 they will not help me. This is the biggest kick up the bum!

I want this baby and whatever I have to do to get it I will work bloody hard for.

I am more than 100% dertmind this time I want/need a lifestyle change and I am starting to embrace it. I have never wanted something so much before. I MUST AND WILL loose the weight.

Sorry for my little essay!

 

[suepat10]

I don't know why but this time I feel that 'this is it'. I AM going to lose it this time and I will have learnt how to keep it off.

The last 40 years have been pretty c***py and I refuse to let the next 40 be like it too!!

 

[kitty~anne]

hi

i have to do it this time. i have decided that this is my last chance.

i've been fat for a lot of my life.

i'm at that age where all my friends are begining to setle down and get married, buy houses and have babies albeit not always in that order.

i have always been single and feel miserable for it.

one of my closest friends gets married this july and as she is marrying a lad we went to school with there will be loads of old faces there, many who i have no particular interest in seeing again but will have no choice.

so her wedding is what i have set my sights on and TBH she is the same size as me and i'm more bothered about being this size at the wedding rather than her. which i do find a little odd. But i digress


my aims are 5%, 7% and 10% targets. if you see my blog you will get an idea of the journal that i fill in each week.

All i want is a loss a week. i am not going to beat myself up if i only lose ½lb one week as its better than ½lb on!!!

sorry i'm a waffler i'll shut up now xxx

 

[jaylou]

What a great thread Annie! I have been at target since July last year and it took me 14 months to lose 3 stone prior to that. I had never ever reached a target, yet alone maintained before this round of SW. For me it was a holiday photo which flicked my slimming switch. I thought I looked good, I had resigned myself to the fact that I was meant to be that size and I thought nothing would ever make me lose the weight, OH liked me as I was etc.... That photo did it all. I looked awful!!

I had just moved to a new town and went along to class one night and that was it. I have never missed a class since unless I have been on holiday and the support of everyone there helps me to keep the weight off. I could never maintain without going to class and I never want to be overweight again.

All it took was one photo!!!!!

 

[claireheath22]

I have been a fad dieter for as long as I can remember. I have ALWAYS been overweight. I was a size 16 when I left school. I am actually very happy with who I am and what I look like.

For me there are 2 reasons I want to loose the weight and the reason I am so determind to shift it this year.

1) I am going to Florida in 7 months and I do not want to be chaffing for 3 weeks in the heat and I want to feel "normal" at the water parks.

2) The most important reason if all though is I want a baby, we have not used contraception of 6 years and we are still waiting! I have always been a bit half hearted but was told my the specialists unless I can get my BMI under 35 they will not help me. This is the biggest kick up the bum!

I want this baby and whatever I have to do to get it I will work bloody hard for.

I am more than 100% dertmind this time I want/need a lifestyle change and I am starting to embrace it. I have never wanted something so much before. I MUST AND WILL loose the weight.

Sorry for my little essay!

oh my god! Our lives are identical! Infertility clinics can be so cruel too! They offered my a bypass but as I have no medical problems apart from pcos so I was declined funding. Me and my partner have been trying for 6 years too and it is heart breaking. He has a daughter from a previous relationship who was 1 when we got together and today we celebrate her 10th birthday, and 6 years down the line I dont have a child of my own..........

Anyway, fingers crossed for everyone who has a goal whatever it may be! Lets make 2009 our year!

 

[elizabeth]

I think I must be serious about it this time as I'm still 100% three months down the line, which is unheard of for me.

Ironically I think what finally made the difference for me was that I'd given up on the whole idea of losing weight - I'd just got so desperate about the effects of my catastrophic bingeing on my general health that I relinquished the idea of 'losing weight on a diet' in favour of finding a way to eat simply and healthily, for good. Which is where the genius of Food Optimising came in.

I began to feel miles better within days of changing to eating this way, so I didn't actually care if I lost weight. As it happens I've also lost a couple of stone so far, and now realise that the loss will continue just as a result of my healthy eating. It's brilliant. Food Optimising has freed me from a self-built prison I'd been in for twenty years.

 

[BevR]

This year is different, it has to be and it will be. The last time i was in a size 14 i was 14, i was always the biggest everywhere i went, and i am sick of not being able to buy the clothes i would love to wear.
if i dont loose the weight there is also the fact that i dont fancy having a heart attack and popping off before im a ripe old wrinkly fiesty woman.
i am doing it for me this time, not for hubby or because of the cruel comments i get from the mother in law.
i also think this site is a god send as my will power is completely crap and its a good incentive to be motivated, but yes were are going to do it!!

 

[Annie68]

Great responses and so much determination!! I just wanted to give a standing ovation to us all

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[Ann-Marie]

Hi,

I'm feeling pretty determined this time too. I'm not saying 100% as I am reluctant to give up my Saturday's on the booze, however, I am 4 weeks in and 8lbs lighter so I am feeling very positive about it all.

I had a bit of a wobble last night after a particularly 'social' weekend but have regained my focus today after weighing myself this morning and seeing that I had lost another 2lbs.

I have previously done WW, Atkins, SlimFast and SW and have returned to SW (doing it alone rather than doing classes) as it's the only one that doesn't feel like a diet - more healthy eating. Following losing on each diet, I have regained the weight plus a bit more but I have just got to the point where I have had enough and want to be able to go into any shop knowing the clothes will fit. My Doctor has also told me that if my blood pressure doesn't come down soon I will have to go on medication for it - I really don't want this and it has made me think about other health implications that may develop.

I am hoping this forum will continue to keep me focussed and here's a big well done to all of us for even being here having acknowledged our need to lose weight.

We all can and all will do it!! For me, even if that is at a rate of 1lb per week, I will be happy