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Hi everyone, i've just joined here so thought i should give a quick introduction and explain my reasons for joining.

My name is Lexie, i'm a 26 year old full time Mum to 2 young children (a 4 year old daughter and 3 year old son) i live in Sheffield uk.

I've joined here today mainly because i want and need to lose weight, i am currently at 13.5 stone and stand at 5ft 4in, so i am obese.
I get made fun of about my weight and feel i get talked about because of it, which has erased all my self confidence and motivation, and made me feel worthless, fat and ugly.

Before i fell pregnant i wa a slim healthy 8 stone and a size 8-10 clothes.
These days even a size 18 makes me look fat.

All i need, is a bit of guidance and support.
i KNOW i can do this and i KNOW i can lose the weight, i just need my confidence back.

Thanks for reading.
 
You've taken the first step by joining this site. So you are ready and motivated to lose weight. YOu can do it. I just hope you have a sound strategy to follow to make it easier to do and safe.

There are lot of wrong approaches to take out there.

I give you this link to help you work out a good eating plan and meals plans for yourself. I am going to use it to fine tune my daily meal plans.

Kilojoules and calories explained | Better Health Channel some basic information that is helpful.

Food variety and a healthy diet | Better Health Channel For sorting out your meals.

Also work out your current base metabolic rate - BMR, you resting metabolic rate RMR. this will tell you how many calories you eating now to maintain yoru current weight. YOu need to eater fewer calories than this amount to lose weight. If you make the food entirely from healthy sources, you will have no trouble at all losing weight. The greater the gap between your RMR and the amount you actually choose to eat will mean the faster you lose weight. But don't be in a rush. Do'nt starve yourself, but do avoid all the foods you normally eat too much off. All the high fat low nutrient foods. It's just easier to go without than to drip feed them into your diet. When you reach your goal weight, you can drip feed those you can't live without back in but while you are dieting, keep away from them unless you have good self-control. I have found its just a lot easier to go without sweet and high fat foods as they are too tasty and make me lose my enjoyment of the healthy types of foods. It easier not to think about them.


And then i would suggest start a dairy thread in the diet and motivation forum under weightloss diaries.

I log everything i eat. I think its the best way. You may feel embarassed to do this and if so, at least do in a document on your own computer. I think a food log is very helpful aid.

See my diary link and how i do it and what i eat - because what i eat is healthy, although you may prefer to eat more meat and you may prefer to eat low fat dairy unlike me who prefers full fat. http://weight-loss.fitness.com/weight-loss-diary/47927-im-aiming-59kg.html You may also feel it necessary to eat light snacks between meals. I'm trying to avoid them. I put some recipes on my page.

With regard to exercise. Choose low intensity exercise until you get well down into the lower end of the overweight range. Rather than while you are still obese or even highly overweight. Moderate and intense exercise will put your body, especially your joints under too much strain and you can do more harm than good.

If you want to do some exercise, discuss it with your doctor. Your doctor might help you by putting you onto a good nutritionist also. If you were in Australia, I think there are nutritionists in some clinics and hospitals that might be able to help you for no cost. Otherwise if you have private health insurance, you might get one that way.

But i hope you find the support and encouragement you need here.

Sometimes we argue over approaches to weight loss but we are all here for the same reason, except the fitness instructors like steve.
 
I'll second what fortyfour has said, and suggest a tool for working out your calorie allowance: When finding your goal, don't reduce it below 1000 under your maintenance or 1200 calories a day, whichever is higher. I'd suggest at a minimum having an awareness of how many calories are in foods, how good or bad they are for you, and how satisfying (filling and tasty) you find them (you're not going to stick with a diet if you're hungry all the time or bored with your food). I agree with logging everything you eat (my diary, which is linked in my signature, will show you what that looks like when you weigh and analyse your food- I calorie count. I appreciate it's a lot of work for most people). If you don't want to log your food or set up a diary here (some people have diaries here without the food), you can use websites like fitday () which a lot of people here recommend, or the one I use, which is a free download called cron-o-meter ()

I agree with fortyfour with regards to exercise. Start out with moderate exercise- go for a walk (I'm not terribly far from you, and the weather's lovely at the moment), slightly faster than you normally would, getting your heartrate up a little. Don't try anything too strenuous too soon, you might damage your knees. And your doctor will probably have some advice for you. (The NHS also has some simple information on their website, under healthy eating and weight loss ).

Hope this is of some use :)
 
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