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Hello everyone. My name is Stuart, I'm 17 years old, and I really want to get rid of my excess weight.
I've always been a big guy, I look back at pictures from when I was a child and I was rather large for my age. I think the reasoning for it was that, my mum would work a lot and she had no time to cook, so she would go to the local chip shop and I would get my tea from there.


I was bullied a lot in primary school. Kids would sing offensive songs, rhymes and just barrage insults at me. I wouldn't blame them. In order to deal with this, I comfort ate, and I just started to love chocolate, crisps and chips.


The bullying stopped when I was 13. People realised that I was genuinely nice and they just stopped with the torment. But I still loved food. And I have been eating what I wanted for years.

In April I joined an 8 week weight loss group and went from 23 stone 7lbs to 21 stone 11lbs. I was really happy with myself. What was really helpful was that I was supported by other people, and we all had the common goal to lose weight. I felt lighter on my feet and people were happy for me.

After the 8 weeks were up, I kept up my healthy lifestyle but I felt disenchanted, I got back into the routine of being unhealthy. And I regret doing that...

Fortunately, I started to dislike junk food. I had it too much, and it just makes me feel sick touching crisps and chocolate. I've been feeling strongly about this recently. I feel as if I could kick the unhealthy slosh and eat right.

What I really want to do is fit in smaller clothes, be able to buy nice clothes. I would also like to be a better skateboarder. I'm not good at it. But if I lose weight I could probably get a lot better at it.


I'm weighing myself tomorrow, so I'll be able to document it, and work on it.

Thanks to those that are reading..

To a brighter future!
 
I weighed myself today. I weigh 22 stone 0lbs.Or 308lbs, I could imagine that I had lost a lot of weight undocumented and regained it. I'm glad that I am only slightly heavier than my last weigh in, but dissappointed that I ended up gaining weight. It made me more sure to lose it all in the long run.

Comments and advice would be deeply appreciated..
 
Hi Stuart, welcome along.


We sound very similar age wise, I've only just turned 18 recently, and at the start of the year I weighed in at about 20 stone 4, just over 286 lbs, so in the same region you're in at the moment.


First of all, you've managed to lose weight in the past which is great, you know that it's possible and what it takes to do it, now it's just a matter of applying the sort of habits and knowledge that helped you lose nearly 2 stone for a longer time period.


If you're in it for the long haul then you've got every chance of succeeding, it's really just a matter of persistence and perseverance.


How tall are you, and what sort of goal weight do you have in mind?


It's not all about chasing a number on the scales but if you know where you'd like to be more or less you can sort out a time frame for getting there.


It's good that you've gotten sick of junk food, I grew up on the stuff as well and never managed to restrain myself from eating for the sake of it, but it's never to late to start eating a more balanced diet.


Hope to hear from you soon.
 
Hey!


Good look my brother, And congratulations on your weight loss before! If you've done it once you can do it again!!


Keep us posted


Ryan
 
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