I’m a Pear/Apple - Part 5. Still going!!

Please may I rejoin? I need the wonderful support from Apples and Pears to shift a few pounds before Christmas

I was like you Silverlining eating what I thought was a low calorie diet, however when the Doctor said to me recently I would benefit from losing a stone, I started counting the calories and realised I had put on weight as I was eating more calories than I thought, with lots of fruit !

It’s a slog at first counting calories but with the help of the book I have shown on here, I am slowly reducing my weight.

I am all hips and thighs, so a pear ; short too which means a lot of clothes are too long and often not wide enough on the haunches.

I lost 1.5 stones with SW and kept it all off for 11 years which It is an achievement, but this year it’s now creeping back and I am now only half a stone away from my original pre SW weight. Really do not want to go back there.

We always cook from scratch, eat sensibly, don’t snack or buy ready made food or get take aways. I walk for miles , hardly eat pastry or cake…. 🎂 even though I really want to, so not sure what I can do to shift this unwelcome blubber.

keepingquiet

Sounds good to me. I have been wanting a diet buddy for ages because I don't want to go to a class or even have a rigid diet.

I'm trying to cut out the carbs just now but finding it a struggle- what do people eat instead?

I haven't been weighed for ages but know I haven't lost any because my clothes are getting tighter. I'm now a size 18 after being a size 16 for years. Once upon a time I was a size 10! My wedding dress was a size 8!

My weight is also all around my tummy, which means I have to wear baggy legged trousers!

I want to lose the weight round the middle as I know its the worst kind for maintaining good health.

Any tips/ideas will be welcome.

I’ve got clothes from my early twenties and the waist size is unbelievable! I’m lucky in that I’m a hips and thighs person, the downside being that I had huge thighs even when I was a size eight but still kept dieting to get rid of them. The rest of me was skeleton like. I think it ruined my metabolism forever especially as I had a huge weight gain in my late teens which I lost very quickly on the doctors quick weight loss diet which was popular at the time.

Welcome keepingquiet.

This book should help you and has definitely helped me. Of course there may be other good diet books which will have helped others too. It cost me £15.99.

Sounds good to me. I have been wanting a diet buddy for ages because I don't want to go to a class or even have a rigid diet.

I'm trying to cut out the carbs just now but finding it a struggle- what do people eat instead?

I haven't been weighed for ages but know I haven't lost any because my clothes are getting tighter. I'm now a size 18 after being a size 16 for years. Once upon a time I was a size 10! My wedding dress was a size 8!

My weight is also all around my tummy, which means I have to wear baggy legged trousers!

I want to lose the weight round the middle as I know its the worst kind for maintaining good health.

Any tips/ideas will be welcome.