Greetings from England

[Boileydoyley]

Hi Everyone! I'm really excited to have found this site!

I'm a 37 year old woman who has been overweight for the past 30 years! That is scary! I'm really looking for advice, support and friendship to help me get control of food, and not let it control me!

All comments and advice would be welcomed, and I'm looking forward to becoming an active member of this group!

Take care everyone

Jeanette
Glastonbury, England

 

[Trusylver]

Welcome to the forum, I look forward to seeing you active around the forum.

you will get lots of support and make friends on your weight loss journey here .

 

[bodymatters]

Hi Boiley doyley, I am in the same boat as you and found this site yesterday, i am starting my diet when the children go back to school, so i am very anxious right now as i collect information about my emotional eating, i am shocked at the moment as i have opened a can of worms but i know this site will help me, i have enrolled on sparkspeople, fitday and fat to slim but this site to me looks the best. Email my if you like at caroline_watt@hotmail.co.uk i would love to have you there as my own personal supporter.

 

[Risty]

Welcome to the forum! It is a big help for sure! Starting a diary on here is a great idea because then you can write down how you feel, what you've done that day and keep yourself accountable for your actions.

Another good resource is Fitday.com. It's an easy way that you can keep track of your calories and make sure you're staying on track. You can even keep track of your exercises on there and compare the calories taken in vs calories used. It's a very neat tool and it's free.

Good luck on achieving your goals!

 

[J88]

Hi Jeanette! I'm J, a newbie too! im really struggling to lose the shed load of weight i put on travelling this year and cannot stop longing for my old size 8-10 figure. im so desperate to lose the weight asap but I'm constantly swapping from eating very healthily to bingeing uncontrollably which only makes me more and more depressed.
a really value bit of advice was given to me yesterday though by one of my best friends who suffered from anorexia a couple of years ago...
"Take each day as it comes. Accept the person you are TODAY instead of reminscing about the person you once were or obsessing over the person you want to be in the future."
And dya know what? My mate is spot on! I think it really is important to take it a day at a time, see each one as an individual mini challenge of it's own.
im sure you already know this but sometimes i find it's helpful to get an outsiders perspective, hence why im part of this forum!
best wishes,
Jx