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Weight loss on your own?
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Butterfly_lady
Well-Known Member
Sadly not, I have lost the weight lots infact once I am in the right frame of mind I can easily diet but I've never found the secret of keeping it off.
Butterfly_lady
Well-Known Member
Its not an easy decision I took ages mulling it over, the final straw is being over 20st and being on holiday boiling hot and barely able to walk a few hundred yards, I knew it couldn't go on and I made my mind up there and then.
femfrankie
Shrinking For Sophie
Been up and down the scales so many times i have lost count and it has never ever stayed off as I always gained a couple stone more just for good measure 
. Previous to falling pregnant with my eldest I lost 6 stone. I lost seven stone and six stone whilst pregnant with my two youngest. Yo-yoed in between those losses. At 27 & a half stone I just gave up.
. Previous to falling pregnant with my eldest I lost 6 stone. I lost seven stone and six stone whilst pregnant with my two youngest. Yo-yoed in between those losses. At 27 & a half stone I just gave up.
louloumoo
New Member
I have...
8 years ago I had a bmi of 34 and at my biggest, weight was 14 stone... Wow!!
I joined lighterlife and lost 4 stone (practically over night) and I have mostly maintained do the last 7 years! People who know me have never known me big..! It's like a sordid secret, only family and close friends know the truth.
Stone on stone off stone on stone off... For 8 years.. Boring!! Always on a diet, always paranoid that I will be size 18 again, had a taste of size 10/12 and it felt good..
So 12 weeks ago I jumped on the scales and was devastated to see 11stone 12lb..I was creeping up and up.. Size 12's were tight!! (Very tight)
"Oh **** I've seen this before"
So i decided then to have a gastric band, prevention for me.. To help me loose a stone or two and to finally stop me getting bigger and bigger, back to what I was and beyond!
8 years ago I had a bmi of 34 and at my biggest, weight was 14 stone... Wow!!
I joined lighterlife and lost 4 stone (practically over night) and I have mostly maintained do the last 7 years! People who know me have never known me big..! It's like a sordid secret, only family and close friends know the truth.
Stone on stone off stone on stone off... For 8 years.. Boring!! Always on a diet, always paranoid that I will be size 18 again, had a taste of size 10/12 and it felt good..
So 12 weeks ago I jumped on the scales and was devastated to see 11stone 12lb..I was creeping up and up.. Size 12's were tight!! (Very tight)
"Oh **** I've seen this before"
So i decided then to have a gastric band, prevention for me.. To help me loose a stone or two and to finally stop me getting bigger and bigger, back to what I was and beyond!
Ines4C
New Member
The reason I had the Gastric Bypass was to avoid yo-yo dieting like I used to do... I would do well for a month or two, then get tired of dieting and put it back on. Yes, you can lose the weight on your own, but it'd be so easy to game it back with extra pounds for good measure... That's why I chose the Op, but it's still your own choice. Good luck with whatever you decide. X
top_kat
Well-Known Member
if you are unsure take the time until you are - took me 7+ years to finally take the plunge, but by that time I'd lost 6 stone in 3 months on lighter life but had put that and another 3 stone on.
Had to be sure, to be in the right mindset and know it was right for me and while now I wish I'd managed to get to that point earlier, this was the right time because I was ready.
Had to be sure, to be in the right mindset and know it was right for me and while now I wish I'd managed to get to that point earlier, this was the right time because I was ready.
SARAH S
Here comes the new me
From your response I think you need to do a lot more research and get your head in the right place.
About 2 years ago there was a lady on the forum that had been given funding, she was asked to loose a stone and a half by herself which she found easy so carried on. If I remember correctly she went to Slimming World but it might have been Weight Watchers.
She managed to get a good 4 stone off and was then questioning whether or not to have the op.
I posted her, the same as I'm posting now, that if any of us could achieve a healthy weight without an operation we would do so. Everyone agreed. Bariatric surgery, whichever you have, is a huge commitment. Your whole relationship with food and drink will change forever.
Don't get me wrong its the best thing I have ever done, but I, like others, tried everything else...successful for a while...but ultimately failed diets aplenty. I was so ready that on the day I almost skipped into the theatre!!
Think long and hard, make sure you a really ready for this before signing that consent form
Good luck with whatever you decide
femfrankie
Shrinking For Sophie
Not belittling your biggest weight but what I would give to be 14st right now :sigh:
Butterfly_lady
Well-Known Member
I agree my mum feels "big" at 9st 10 and likes to be under 9st 5 :sigh:
Why did you go ahead with surgery if you lost weight and kept it off, I wish I could do that
and believe me I have tried.
femfrankie
Shrinking For Sophie
Very true and I remember albeit that it was a fleeting moment in my yoyo life I wasn't happy when I was 11st let alone 14. Looking back though at pictures of me at 11st I kick myself now as I was absolutely fine... One of those what the mind sees of the reflected image doesn't match our expectation of things I suppose.
Butterfly_lady
Well-Known Member
This is so true, when I lost weight a few years ago I got down to 13st something and was fitting in a size 14 easily a 12 in some things, but rather than be happy I was obsessed with the "numbers" I seem to be one of these people who weigh heavy, I'm a smidge under 5ft 4 and a dress size 22, this time round I am determined not to let the scales rule me :cry:
louloumoo
New Member
What's that saying
"I wish I was as fat as the first time I looked in the mirror and though "wow your fat"!!
I had surgery as this weight was creeping back on, and although I had maintained, I had done so with great difficulty and many stupid diets! I was scared that one day I would think " bugger it I'm meant to be big" and then I would put the weight on much more. So I thought rather then wait till I'm bigger why not have the surgery now. I was just big enough to qualify, so consider clinically obese. X
"I wish I was as fat as the first time I looked in the mirror and though "wow your fat"!!
I had surgery as this weight was creeping back on, and although I had maintained, I had done so with great difficulty and many stupid diets! I was scared that one day I would think " bugger it I'm meant to be big" and then I would put the weight on much more. So I thought rather then wait till I'm bigger why not have the surgery now. I was just big enough to qualify, so consider clinically obese. X
femfrankie
Shrinking For Sophie
I'm exactly the same butterfly.. My expected target from my team and it was my own personal goal is 12st. But if I fall short of that I'm not going to get hot under the collar about it. I'm finished playing that numbers game!
Butterfly_lady
Well-Known Member
I can't remember the first time I looked in a mirror and thought, wow I'm fat, I've been fat since I was a teen
Butterfly_lady
Well-Known Member
I am debating binning the scales and having a fortnightly weigh in at my local Boots, I just don't know if i can.............