All my teenage years I struggled with my weight. It wasn’t till a couple of years ago till I actually did something about it. My dad had joined slimming world and I saw that it worked for him it would work for me. My first time going there I was so scared I didn’t know what to expect. When walking into the room it was full and this had my nerves going. I was so worried what other people thought. I sat through the meeting and after hearing everyone stories and how easy it was for them I thought maybe this was not going to be as hard as I thought.
When I stood up on the scales I was so shocked to see how heavy I was. I was annoyed with myself that got that heavy. Through my teenage years when I was stressed or anything bothered me I would just turn to food. I think all the stuff with my mam just made it so much worse. Hearing her give me horrible abuse I just kept turning to food. So as I was saying the lady who ruined it was so nice and explained to me what I had to do. Thank god I had my dad for helping me with it, my first week was extremely hard as I wasn’t sure what I was exactly doing but when I put my mind to it I stick at something. After the first week when I got back to the group I learned that I lost 9 pounds I’ve never been so happy with myself. everyone in class clapped and was giving me great praises about losing so much in the first week. Each week I kept losing the weight.
Now if you knew me then you would know I would have no confidence what’s so ever I just wouldn’t say anything at all and was very shy my weight was really getting to me especially going out with friend’s I’d rather just stay at home than go out with my friends who could dress so nice and I couldn’t because of my weight. 11 weeks into slimming world I managed to lose 2 stone I was so happy with myself. I hadn’t really told many people that I was doing it, so I thought I’d bite the bullet and I put a status on Facebook, and the response I got on Facebook was so nice, so many people saying how proud they were and this just boost me so much to lose more weight. I joined the social team this is where I’d would help out each week. Doing this gave me so much confidence as I had to interact with people each week and as losing so much weight each week people were interested in how I lost the weight and what I was doing.
In total, I lost 7 stone. I won slimmer of the year this was such a great achievement I just couldn’t believe it that I manage to lose that much weight and people are so proud of me which is the biggest confidence boost you can get I not at my target weight but still it’s the biggest achievement to date I have done. This has me the person I am today my life is so much better than it was before I used to be so depressed and wouldn’t meet up or go out with friends. but I have gained a social life and I’m living my life like I should of before. Losing this weight has given so much confidence before I wouldn’t even put much on social media I wouldn’t be out that much but now I always share pictures and I’m always out. Below are some before pictures and me now. I’m ashamed that I ever got that big but at least I did something about before it was too late. I’m a much happier person now than I was before. Comment for more info
April xx
