mintball
New Member
Hi,
Don't really know why I'm about to go into this long post, I just feel that since I joined this site I've gotten some absolutely invaluable advice from many different people. It then dawned on me that I seem to be gaining lots of info and giving nothing. I suppose I feel that nothing I say could really help anyone, but the one gem about this site has been reading about people in similar situations to me and that I'm not on my own, so if I can do that for someone else, then here goes....
I'm 31 (only for another few days though) and have been overweight all my life, my mum had me to the doctors age 13 about my weight, but i was popular and happy so didn't really take it seriously. I plodded along slowly gaining weight until I was 19 and got a job as a Club 18-30 holiday rep!!! I don't think I ever really wanted the job but I saw open interviews and my friends dared me to go for it cos i was a bit of a gobshite and I got through. When I told people what I'd done, eberyone commented about how you have to be fit to do that job and the girls were usually pretty little blonde things..well red rag to a bull. I carried on through all the endless interviews and assesments etc for months just to prove a point but then I got offered the job and I hadn't really allowed that part into my head...but what the hey, I'd show em!!
That was my downfall really, I'd spent most of my life with other people watching what I ate, or at least thats how it felt so here I was a bubbly fat holiday rep, who ate on the run all the time, drinking red bull to keep awake and eating chicken and chips at 3am daily and no-one noticed. It was only when my mum came out to Greece for a visit and burst into tears that I realised what had happened..I was huge and topping the scales age 22 and 23 stones!
Did the repping for 3 years, so one in the eye for the doubters!
Came home and got a job and discovered slimming pills Tenuate Dospan and lost 8 stone in about 6 months and met my now husband. Stopped the tablets (costing £15 a week) and the weight gradually crept back on back up to 18 stone and got pregant with my beautiful daughter Maisie and went back up to 21 stone. tried all the diet clubs, Xenical, reductil, hypnotherapy, accupuncture, got the gym on prescription, nothing left to try and my wedding was booked.
Then I saw an advert in a womens mag, looking for the next people for "you are what you eat" with Gillian McKeith...I'd tried everything else so why not......and I did it too.
I appeared on Channel 4 You are what you and had the colonic etc did the old swimming costume shot...OMG.
It worked, I got down to 15 stone for my wedding and I know that is still large but I think I looked fab, Gillian turned up to my wedding and Channel 4 filmed it for us as a gift.
Great, story should end there, obviously not cos here I am again 2 years after my wedding at 18 and a bit stone with surgery booked.
I've put my family through all of this and ended up almost where i started, I'm not as big as I used to be and the NHS won't fund my op cos I'm not ill enough. The reason I'm not ill is cos even though I eat too much and I eat the wrong things some of the time, on the whole we eat good homemade low fat food but I have a larg portion and then I pick too. I've booked to go private and I can honestly say I've tried more things to lose weight than anyone I've ever met and this is the end of the road for me...it has to work.
I'm really sorry if I've waffled on but I felt I had to tell a bit of my story because I've had so much support from everyone on here so far and
Here's with fingers crossed for all of us for 2009
I hope this is the year all our dreams come true, whatever they may be x x x
Don't really know why I'm about to go into this long post, I just feel that since I joined this site I've gotten some absolutely invaluable advice from many different people. It then dawned on me that I seem to be gaining lots of info and giving nothing. I suppose I feel that nothing I say could really help anyone, but the one gem about this site has been reading about people in similar situations to me and that I'm not on my own, so if I can do that for someone else, then here goes....
I'm 31 (only for another few days though) and have been overweight all my life, my mum had me to the doctors age 13 about my weight, but i was popular and happy so didn't really take it seriously. I plodded along slowly gaining weight until I was 19 and got a job as a Club 18-30 holiday rep!!! I don't think I ever really wanted the job but I saw open interviews and my friends dared me to go for it cos i was a bit of a gobshite and I got through. When I told people what I'd done, eberyone commented about how you have to be fit to do that job and the girls were usually pretty little blonde things..well red rag to a bull. I carried on through all the endless interviews and assesments etc for months just to prove a point but then I got offered the job and I hadn't really allowed that part into my head...but what the hey, I'd show em!!
That was my downfall really, I'd spent most of my life with other people watching what I ate, or at least thats how it felt so here I was a bubbly fat holiday rep, who ate on the run all the time, drinking red bull to keep awake and eating chicken and chips at 3am daily and no-one noticed. It was only when my mum came out to Greece for a visit and burst into tears that I realised what had happened..I was huge and topping the scales age 22 and 23 stones!
Did the repping for 3 years, so one in the eye for the doubters!
Came home and got a job and discovered slimming pills Tenuate Dospan and lost 8 stone in about 6 months and met my now husband. Stopped the tablets (costing £15 a week) and the weight gradually crept back on back up to 18 stone and got pregant with my beautiful daughter Maisie and went back up to 21 stone. tried all the diet clubs, Xenical, reductil, hypnotherapy, accupuncture, got the gym on prescription, nothing left to try and my wedding was booked.
Then I saw an advert in a womens mag, looking for the next people for "you are what you eat" with Gillian McKeith...I'd tried everything else so why not......and I did it too.
I appeared on Channel 4 You are what you and had the colonic etc did the old swimming costume shot...OMG.
It worked, I got down to 15 stone for my wedding and I know that is still large but I think I looked fab, Gillian turned up to my wedding and Channel 4 filmed it for us as a gift.
Great, story should end there, obviously not cos here I am again 2 years after my wedding at 18 and a bit stone with surgery booked.
I've put my family through all of this and ended up almost where i started, I'm not as big as I used to be and the NHS won't fund my op cos I'm not ill enough. The reason I'm not ill is cos even though I eat too much and I eat the wrong things some of the time, on the whole we eat good homemade low fat food but I have a larg portion and then I pick too. I've booked to go private and I can honestly say I've tried more things to lose weight than anyone I've ever met and this is the end of the road for me...it has to work.
I'm really sorry if I've waffled on but I felt I had to tell a bit of my story because I've had so much support from everyone on here so far and
Here's with fingers crossed for all of us for 2009
I hope this is the year all our dreams come true, whatever they may be x x x
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