My Story – the beginning
Like many weight loss stories, mine is a story of many ‘ups’ and several ‘downs’. I struggled with my weight as a teenager, got it under control when at university… slipped a little… sorted myself out again, and then succeeded in getting down to a UK size 10/12 by the time I was married. Amazingly I returned to that size after the birth of my first child. However, two children later I measured as a UK size 18 and I haven’t measured less than a 18 since then – and that was 20 years ago.
The last 10 years have been a real struggle. Once the children got beyond the age where I was literally running around after them, I gradually began to put on weight. I wasn’t particularly overeating and I was still fit and reasonably active, but I started getting heavier anyway.
Then, about three years ago, I fell really badly down some stone steps and hurt my hip and back. It became very painful to move and since then I have only been able to walk for a short distance at a time.
Now I was moving even less. Before I knew it, if I wanted to get back to that size 10/12 weight, I would need to lose 100lbs.
