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Hi all :) I hope you all had a Happy Christmas.

I started my weight loss journey 2 months ago now and have managed to lose 13lbs. I haven't been fully focused though till now. It suddenly hit me that I only have 7 months left to lose weight in time for a family wedding. I refuse to be the one ruining the photos.

Sadly vanity is spurring me more than the fact my family has a history of Diabetes. I've been pretty lazy over the past few years and I piled weight on after my son was born (nearly 10 years ago). I've made excuses for years and to be honest I'm pretty bored with hearing them myself.

I'm looking on my weight as a bad debt I need to repay £1 by £1 or 1LB by 1LB. For a woman I am pretty huge, I am 6ft tall and I dress in size 22 clothes. I hate feeling manly and I long to feel feminine again.

I've lost weight in the past so I know I can do it but I know I'll have bad days and hope I can find support here. Onwards and upwards.

Thanks for reading.
 
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Good for you for losing 13lbs. So what happens after the event? You are losing weight for something specific but you need to have a plan of what you will do afterwards.
 
Hiya :) Well I've just survived the annual Office Christmas party and the photos aren't good. I swore that next year would be better. So I have the wedding in August, and my next goal will be Christmas. Beyond that I don't have a goal, yet, but I'm hoping that once I have the 'weight loss bug' I'll keep it up. I'm looking this as a long term arrangement and a lifestyle change rather than a diet. I want to get up the stairs at work without wanting to pass out at the top. I want to stop being a slave to food and to live for a change rather than passing up opportunities. I want to take my son to a theme park and not worry whether the harnesses will close properly. I want to be healthy, live long and prosper :)
 
You can eat anything you want! (Well almost) that's what I've been doing and its working out. Practice moderation and soon it will be painless. I too at first wanted to lose for vanity reasons and those attempts invariably failed. Its those medical reasons that drive me hardest now. You've been quite active in the forums hope you stick around :)
 
Thanks for the reply :) I thought I was doing well having things like jacket potato and salad for lunch, or pasta and salad but I've been reading about carbs.

Also I don't know how to count the calories of everything. Like for my lunch I had a hand full of shredded iceberg lettuce, gammon cubes, 6 pineapple cubes, a smidge of mustard, a smidge of creme fraise and a small jacket potato. I've got no idea how many calories are in all of that.

On a positive note on the way home from work I brought some dumbells and a backpack. I've roped my Dad into walking with me over the weekend and I'm going to wear the weighted back pack.

I've been very active here because its so nice to see real people really doing something positive. I am staying put, but my weight isn't :D
 
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