My 6 years of weight loss and weight gain

LilMissCiara

I'm only 18 but for 6+ years I have tried to lose weight. I'm obese.

In those 6 years I've tried (some lasted for a day, some for a couple of months)
-Weightwatchers (joined at least 3 times)
-Cabbage Soup Diet
-Day on Day off
-3 Day diet
-Celebrity Slim
-Cambridge Diet (lost a lot of weight, came off for 2 weeks and tried to get back on twice)
-Calorie counting
-Proslim (little known product from a organic company. Meal replacement for 2 meals [breakfast and dinner], lunch and fruit)

I really want to lose weight. I always have so lack of motivation wasn't my initial problem.

Proslim was what I was most successful on, but got it through a rep from an old gym. The gym is now closed so the only way to get it is to join the Organic Company as a seller (it's like Avon in a way).

Help? Tips? Advice?

Anything?

jam_mac_jam

What are you eating now at the moment. Put your food up for a day .
you need to get away from faddy diets first of all and find out what you are doing in your day to day that is keeping you from losing it

smiles302

Fad diets never work! If you want a plan to follow to start with, why not follow operation transformation?

Or simply eat less and move more change your lifestyle.

Frogdog

OP, what are you eating daily? Post up everything you would eat on a daily basis. And portion size too.

fofany

Hi LilMissCiara. I know just where you are coming from. I spent my teenage years & my early 20s about 6 stone overweight. It wasn't until I got my own place (I think I was 24) that I did anything about it. I lost 3 stone myself within a year & then joined weightwatchers & lost the other 3 stone in 6 months. It was the biggest achievement of my life and totally changed everything for me. And I became more active & kept the weight off with no problem until about 5 years ago when I got pregnant with my second child & haven't lost the pregnancy weight even now (she has just turned 4 & I have just turned 42) so I rejoined weightwatchers 2 weeks ago with 2 stone to lose to get back down to where I want to be.

I would recommend joining a slimming group instead of one of the faddy diets & keeping at it, attending classes & fully tracking what you are eating. It worked for me & loads of other people out there, but it takes commitment, a radical change to your eating habits and remember that a slip up is just that & not a reason to give up.

Good luck & let us know how it goes.

Dixie Chick

I know you are quite young but you definitely have been through your fair share of diets over the years and probably know logically that the proslim and the celeb slim kind of diets are not proper for long term results so I wont go on about that. We have all been in a place in our lives with our weight that we have been so unhappy we just needed it gone NOW and thats where the market for the diets come from, prey on peoples misery.

My advice to you is to a) list what you are eating here and be honest with it. b) list any exercise you do and c) say why you think honeslty that you are 6stone overweight. I understand you say you have always had weight problems but our weight is something we can control if we really want to, so what demotivates you.

Personally for me, i had weight to lose last year, 3 stone or thereabouts. I had in the past lost weight sucessfully with WW and gained back and i realised that it was the food i was eating that was causing me to have binges and stuff, i was a total sugar addict and it was always my downfall. I went to a nutritionist and did a Low GL diet to begin and then through all my posting and reading on this site learned better ways of eating and changing my habits. It wasnt overnight, good god NO, i had a few slip ups until i got the handle of it and eventhough motivation runs low every now and then, i still want to be healthy more than i want to ignore it.

You need to be honest with yourself, its a life long change you need to make cos its your body for life. You can make the choice to lose the weight, its in your control to do so!

PrincessLola

LilMissCiara wrote: »

I'm only 18 but for 6+ years I have tried to lose weight. I'm obese.

In those 6 years I've tried (some lasted for a day, some for a couple of months)
-Weightwatchers (joined at least 3 times)
-Cabbage Soup Diet
-Day on Day off
-3 Day diet
-Celebrity Slim
-Cambridge Diet (lost a lot of weight, came off for 2 weeks and tried to get back on twice)
-Calorie counting
-Proslim (little known product from a organic company. Meal replacement for 2 meals [breakfast and dinner], lunch and fruit)

I really want to lose weight. I always have so lack of motivation wasn't my initial problem.

Proslim was what I was most successful on, but got it through a rep from an old gym. The gym is now closed so the only way to get it is to join the Organic Company as a seller (it's like Avon in a way).

Help? Tips? Advice?

Anything?

Hi Ciara:)
I wouldn't call calorie counting a fad diet as its the basis for all weight loss plans. In otherwords burn more then you take in. For example if your body burns 2000 calories a day you only eat 1500, that way you have a calorie deficit of 500 a a day, there are 3500 calories in a pound of fat so in theory you should lose a pound a week, which is considered quite a safe rate of weight loss. Find out how many calories your body burns a day (try a reliable online calculator based on your height, weight, gender, age and activity level)
Of course I wouldn't advise eating pure crap even if its under your calorie level but I'm sure you've heard it all before about fruit/veg/lean protein.

Exercise is good for keeping you motivated and your diet on track. Are there no other gyms/swimming pools near to you? Otherwise you could walk/run outside

I lost 2 stone when I was 18 and have kept it off since so you CAN do this! Good luck!:)

common sense brigade

firstly stop dieting! dieting is setting yourself up for failure. you need to retrain yourself to eat normal healthy amounts of normal healthy food. salads, veg, nuts, water, lean meats. you should never feel hungry if you eat properly. i went to a hynotherapist that comnpletely changed the way i view food. i was very skeptical but it does work. hope your ok cos i know how hard it is to loose weight.