Theresa1966
Silver Member
Well where do I start! I have struggled with my weight all my life and have tried most diets over my adult life! I am 47 this year and determind to get back to my goal of 11stone!In 2000 I joined weight watchers at around 17 stone I got to goal of 9st 10 and maintained this for around 5 years! Following a bad breakup of my marriage I turned to food and put on weight over a few years until I was weighted even more than I did when I started at WW. I started diets over the next 6 years and when I got remarried in 2006 I was around a size 18. I then was in a happy place and did not diet much but really knew that I need to lose weight as I was really struggling with my self esteem. In 2011 after lots of starting WW and SW I decided I need to really do something about my weight! I had just found out I was going to be a Nan for the first time and did not want to my grandchild to have a fat unfit Nan!I started back at dieting in Oct 11 at WW but found that I was using my points for unhealthy foods, I swapped to SW and lost 3.5 stone, I then saw the adverts for Pauline Quirk who had lost all her weight on LL and looked into that! I am quite an impatient person and the rep did not get back to me so I looked up CWP and the consultant got back to me quickly and I decided that I would do that! I started on 18th Jan 2012 and stayed on SS for 6 weeks before going onto SS+ I came off the CWP on 1st May after geting to my own personal goal of 11 10lb I wanted to be in a size 12 and was really pleased to have got there!I keep this weight off by myself just healthy eating and seemed to maintain this within a range of 11st 10lb and 12st 2lb, I think I got comfortable that I was maintaining it and before I knew it, it was December and I though oh well I am really going to enjoy this Christmas and eat lots and lots! The result was that my jeans were becoming too tight and I decided after having to buy a size 14 dress to wear NYE that I was going to go back to CWP on 2nd Jan!So here I am again! I had a few products left that were in date, so I rang my consultant and asked her to come on 2nd Jan and that I would start on the morning and weigh in that evening! I dug out my scales that had been put away as I was scared to go on them (who was i kidding by not weighing!) I weighed 13 stone 8 in the morning and when I weighed in by my consultant in the evening after my first day on CWP I was suprised to be 13stone 6lb! This may have been a difference of scales but I hoped that it was that I had been on the CWP. I was a little shocked that I had put on 23lb but was determined to get that off again and get back into my size 12's again. I had kept a couple of pairs of jeans which were a 14 and had started to wear them as my other were too tight but I was not going to buy anymore that would be a very slippery slope!So why did I decide to post this time? When I think back to last year I loved reading other peoples posts and although I joined in March 12 I never posted! This time I though why not at least I can get motivation and tips from others and enjoy the banter!Why write a diary this time? I suppose it was really reading some of the other diaries on here and its a way of putting your feelings and when you are having a good day for just really want to rant that I am having a bad day! It will also be a way of keeping track of my weigh in etc .I had my first weigh in yesterday evening and was gob smacked that I lost 13lb the last time I did I my first week I only lost 5lb!Well it feels that I have just bared my sole but I have found that really helpful! I hope you enjoy reading my diary and I look forward to catching up on all of yours.If anyone can also let me know how I can get a tracker thing on the bottom of my post I would appreciate it! Also is there any way of keeping track of what posts you have commented on? Also how do I add pictures as I have some of me when I started my original journey and how I am now?Theresa x
