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Total group loss so far!!

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Thank you everyone. Tracey that's really good that you've got back to your pre holiday weight so quickly 🙂

Marg sorry you've not been feeling well it's hard to lose weight when feeling bad but the good thing is you didn't put anything on I hope you feel better next week x
 
Right I have ventured in here! From 9th June until 9th September I lost 15 kg. I'm afraid it wasn't with just will power I had the Byetta to help me. Anyway I'm pleased with it and feel quite a bit better and have dropped 2 dress sizes. I'm size 18 -20 now and was 24 so that in itself has made a huge difference and maybe because I don't feel quite so fat I have strayed a little. Well for the last 4 weeks or so I haven't lost anything grrrr. I suppose I need to lose about another 5 kg to get out of the morbidly obese bracket. Don't you just hate that phrase? Then the doc wants another 15kg off that so I still have a fair way to go. They scared me a bit at the hossie this week by saying my remaining beta cells may last longer if I shift this weight and the Byetta will not be any good once they have died. So all the naughty little habits that have crept in during the last month or so have to stop right now. I'm aiming for 1 kg every week to 10 days. Fingers x for me please.
 
Lizzie53 said:
Right I have ventured in here! From 9th June until 9th September I lost 15 kg. I'm afraid it wasn't with just will power I had the Byetta to help me. Anyway I'm pleased with it and feel quite a bit better and have dropped 2 dress sizes. I'm size 18 -20 now and was 24 so that in itself has made a huge difference and maybe because I don't feel quite so fat I have strayed a little. Well for the last 4 weeks or so I haven't lost anything grrrr. I suppose I need to lose about another 5 kg to get out of the morbidly obese bracket. Don't you just hate that phrase? Then the doc wants another 15kg off that so I still have a fair way to go. They scared me a bit at the hossie this week by saying my remaining beta cells may last longer if I shift this weight and the Byetta will not be any good once they have died. So all the naughty little habits that have crept in during the last month or so have to stop right now. I'm aiming for 1 kg every week to 10 days. Fingers x for me please.
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Hi Lizzie,
Well you are certainly among friends here. Sometimes a sharp kick is what we need after succumbing to a bit of naughtiness after being good for so long. So you are now back on track, you already have a good loss behind you so well done on that and off you go again. Look forward to seeing your posts in here each week. If you need any support, just shout out.
 
I haven't done very well at tall for the last fortnight i have stayed exactly the same weight really annonying as I have been very good diet wise only difference is this week is that I haven't been very well have really bad cold and have now got a chesty cough so haven't done very much exercise at tall this week.

What is even more annoying is that the scales are now on 13 stone and I was so looking forward to it going down into the 12 stone something.

Never mind always next week😉
 
I lost 0.5lbs :D - happy with that considering I am a bit bloated 😱.

So I make the total now 6st 11 lbs (somebody feel free to correct me if I am wrong...
 
Lizzie53 said:
Right I have ventured in here! From 9th June until 9th September I lost 15 kg. I'm afraid it wasn't with just will power I had the Byetta to help me. Anyway I'm pleased with it and feel quite a bit better and have dropped 2 dress sizes. I'm size 18 -20 now and was 24 so that in itself has made a huge difference and maybe because I don't feel quite so fat I have strayed a little. Well for the last 4 weeks or so I haven't lost anything grrrr. I suppose I need to lose about another 5 kg to get out of the morbidly obese bracket. Don't you just hate that phrase? Then the doc wants another 15kg off that so I still have a fair way to go. They scared me a bit at the hossie this week by saying my remaining beta cells may last longer if I shift this weight and the Byetta will not be any good once they have died. So all the naughty little habits that have crept in during the last month or so have to stop right now. I'm aiming for 1 kg every week to 10 days. Fingers x for me please.
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Hi Lizzie, Fingers crossed. I started of with a BMI of 52 😱. And was classed as super morbidly obese... I am now down to a BMI of 37 and "only" morbidly obese... I cant wait for the day I am only obese (about another 14lbs in my case)... Good luck xxx
 
Well done Carol. I am full of admiration for anyone who manages to lose that much. Crikey I thought being put into the morbidly obese bracket was pretty awful, I didn't realise there was another bracket. Good luck with the next 14 lbs. I had quite a giggle with the dietician the other day when I asked her how much more I had to loose to just be obese! You and I must have about the same amount to lose to reach that status. Do you think we can do it before Christmas?
I no longer eat because I am hungry. Thank goodness the Byetta takes care of that for me but I am inclined to nibble a bit. I couldn't do it when I started Byetta due to nausea but now that has passed I do have the odd thing. So I need to find things to keep me busy and away from food. I had a go at the garden yesterday which I really enjoyed and there is plenty of that to keep me busy. I have also decided to have a clear out with a view to doing a car boot sale next month. I have never done that before and we have so much stuff we don't need. I'll use the cash generated to buy some smaller clothes. Of course once I have cleared a couple of bedrooms they will need decorating so I have quite a lot of projects now.
 
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Hi Lizzie, Fingers crossed. I started of with a BMI of 52 😱. And was classed as super morbidly obese... I am now down to a BMI of 37 and "only" morbidly obese... I cant wait for the day I am only obese (about another 14lbs in my case)... Good luck xxx
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Well done Carol you have done so well with you weight loss. I think my BMi when last checked was 34 so would imagine I aslo fall it the morbidly obese status......................lets hope we can reach the Obese stage by early next year. I have had a tough few weeks where my weight hasnt moved at tall even though I have been really good. Its hard when you stick at a weight (you start to think am I wasting my time.......even though I know am not). I was diagnosed with Type 2 5 weeks and managed to loose a stone in the first few weeks but nothing for the last fortnight at tall.

Can you and other give me some advice on how you have lost your weight and how you coped with those weeks when there was just no change at tall?
 
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Lizzie53 said:
Well done Carol. I am full of admiration for anyone who manages to lose that much. Crikey I thought being put into the morbidly obese bracket was pretty awful, I didn't realise there was another bracket. Good luck with the next 14 lbs. I had quite a giggle with the dietician the other day when I asked her how much more I had to loose to just be obese! You and I must have about the same amount to lose to reach that status. Do you think we can do it before Christmas?
I no longer eat because I am hungry. Thank goodness the Byetta takes care of that for me but I am inclined to nibble a bit. I couldn't do it when I started Byetta due to nausea but now that has passed I do have the odd thing. So I need to find things to keep me busy and away from food. I had a go at the garden yesterday which I really enjoyed and there is plenty of that to keep me busy. I have also decided to have a clear out with a view to doing a car boot sale next month. I have never done that before and we have so much stuff we don't need. I'll use the cash generated to buy some smaller clothes. Of course once I have cleared a couple of bedrooms they will need decorating so I have quite a lot of projects now.
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Thanks Lizzie, I went to the consultant about my gall bladder a few years back (at my heaviest I was 20st 4lbs) and he couldnt measure my BMI on the paper chart as it didnt go that high - he just wrote on my notes BMI over 50 and refused to take my gall bladder out as the operation may have killed me 😱. But even then it took me another two years to make the decision to loose weight...

I am hoping to get down to 12st, but at 5'2" I would still be obese, but for me I think that would be a healthy weight... I really dont know as I have always been fat even at school, so I have nothing to gage it against. But I really cant see me being any smaller.

I am a nibbler as well, people look at me when they see the amount of food I eat, beleive it or not, I dont have a large appitite I just nibble and pick at things at night... I am hopeing to get down to 13st 13lbs for Christmas, that is the target I have set myself (another 9lbs to go) but at the moment I am averaging 0.8lbs a week so we will see how it goes.

I love clearing out, it makes me feel great, good luck with the clearout :D
 
Sheilagh1958 said:
Well done Carol you have done so well with you weight loss. I think my BMi when last checked was 34 so would imagine I aslo fall it the morbidly obese status......................lets hope we can reach the Obese stage by early next year. I have had a tough few weeks where my weight hasnt moved at tall even though I have been really good. Its hard when you stick at a weight (you start to think am I wasting my time.......even though I know am not). I was diagnosed with Type 2 5 weeks and managed to loose a stone in the first few weeks but nothing for the last fortnight at tall.

Can you and other give me some advice on how you have lost your weight and how you coped with those weeks when there was just no change at tall?
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Thanks Sheilagh, I think morbidly obese is anything over 35 so hope that makes you feel a wee bit better LOL. I know where you are coming from sometimes it is hard when you dont see the weight coming off when you know you have been good, but all I can stay is stick in with it. I am "only" averaging 0.8lbs a week so I am not the quickest at losing weight but as the advert says "every little helps" or even a stay the same is not gaining... I have a picture of me at my heaviest on the fridge and sometimes look at that to remind me. I also kept a pair of my largest trousers and when I have a wobble I try them on just to remind me (they are 6 sizes bigger than I am wearing now)...

Good luck xx
 
Hi Shelagh, I have lost 47lbs since 10th June, but the last 5 I only got off this week after a 3 week period with no loss, so my best advice is just keep at it, don;t be too hard on yourself, and it will come off if you are doing everything right. I think you will find once you get back to exercise it will start to shift again. I am still morbidly obese too, so a way to go yet, but slowly does it is good for me, I do lots of exercise and eat healthy so it has to come off sometime is my new theory!
 
:DWell done Carol.
 
Another half pound lost this week. bit disappointed but still, it's a loss.

Group Total - 6 st 11? lb
 
Well done Anita - any loss is a loss as they say - and it wouldn't be healthy to lose big amounts every week.
 
OK, this isn't a weekly loss or anything since it's ages since I actually lost anything! But, I have lost two pounds! 🙂



Group Total - 6 st 13? lb
 
Well done everyone.

Intereresting discussion on BMI. I was over the moon when my BMI fell below the obese level and I am "just" overweight! The consultant at Slimming World did not really know what I was twittering on about or why I was so delighted. My BMI is currently around 27 and I can't wait to see it drop to "normal".

And that is why I am part of Slimming World or any other such like organisation. I want the discipline of the weigh in and to know that even though I feel much better, look much better, wearing smaller sizes I am still overweight and can't relax just yet.

Weigh in tomorrow evening and I think I am doing well. However, there are cakes and Twix bars in the kitchen and although so far I have resisted, let's see what happens after lunch!!!
 
Marg - go for a walk if you feel the urge - imagine how good you will feel if you lose tomorrow. why not resist and then have tomorrow if you lose?

Well done Alan - great loss considering you have been both ill and injured!
 
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