KirstyM

Hi My name is Kirsty i’m 39 and happily married.

You will have to excuse me if this goes on a bit as i’ve never written a blog in my life.  I have a feeling it’s going to take a while so here goes.

I have been overweight all my life.  Chubby kid.  Curvey teen, with the help of a growth spurt.  Starting as an adult i wasnt HUGE but i was heavier than all my friends.  I started work and had money to spend on things i had never had before like McDonalds and regularly went into supermarkets to hunt down nice food.  This started the pattern i seem to have followed ever since.

A few years of going out with the girls drinking and eating junk passed and of course i was slowly putting on the pounds and not really noticing.  Those elasticated leggings we all used to wear did me no favours at all.  You can tell if your jeans are getting tight, there’s no avoiding it!

A few more years and a slimming club later and i was starting to lose weight, then i learn how to yoyo diet!  So need less to say not a huge weighloss.

Then i found happiness in the form of my wonderful husband.  He is everything i could ever want and more.  Perfect dare i say?

When we first got together we used to go to the pub frequently and drink at home too.  I would cook spagetti bolognaise and roast dinners and all the nice stuff i try to avoid these days lol.  We also got a liking for Pizza Hut and chinese takeaway so yet again here are the pounds coming back.  My husband had never made me feel that he didnt love me the way i was but when i had trouble walking the dogs at my heaviest he did express his concerns that he would lose me because of my health.  This gave me the kick up the bum i needed!  I didnt want to eat myself to death and lose being with the one person that i love more than anything else on this earth.

So just over 6 years ago i went to a slimming club again and in the first year i had lost nearly 6 stone (84lb).  I was so pleased because i was the smallest i had been for years.  Unfortunalely for the next 4 years i started to yoyo again and was struggling to lose weight although i didnt really put much back on.

October/November last year i kept getting severe pain after eating a fatty meal.  The pain would last for hours at a time.  During one of these attacks i went to A&E and was diagnosed with Gallstones and Pancreatitus.  I was told that another attack could be fatal, which was scary i can tell you!!!  I was put on the list for a Gallbladder removal operation and so i didnt get another trip to A&E i started to eat less than 20 grams of fat a day.  Im not advising this at all but i was advised that really i should have none, but its hard not to have any at all as all foods have some fat in.  I found that i could get away with that amount with no problems.  During that time i lost 30lbs, and it was in the right places, until my operation which was the end of January this year.

Soon after my op we went to the Carribean for a holiday and i managed to put a few pounds on which i dont beat myself up about at all.  I deserved coctails and 3 square meals after all that lol.

Over the years i have bought exersize dvd’s that i enjoyed doing but daren’t do them when i was ill.  So now im back on track trying to cut down on fat and eat a balanced diet.  The dvd’s are being used religiously 3 times a week.  I also walk the dogs 5 days a week, my husband does the 2 days, i work all day.  I feel motivated to keep up the good work.  I still have a way to go but my body is definately changing shape and im wearing clothes that i wouldn’t have been able to get into unless i went back about 17 years!  Which is brilliant.

I found this site quite by chance when i was looking up how many calories i was burning on a workout.  It is brilliant!  I love filling in my food and exersize dairies and it is really motivating me to stick at it. 

So here i am carrying on my weightloss journey with all of you on here. 

Good luck to us!!!

I hope i havent bored you all to sleep but i did warn you it could go on haha.

Kirsty x