A quick bit of background, my name is Julie, I am 50 years old and was too fat for surgery (a BMI of 46) to treat a prolapsed disk in my neck, that if not treated will kill off my spinal cord and paralyses me from the neck or shoulders down. When your specialist tells you that if you lose power or control of arms, legs, bladder or bowel you are to get to hospital post haste and surgery will be done no matter what your weight is, but to pretty please try and lose enough weight to make the anesthetist happy first. Then you try to lose weight.
Within 2 weeks you realise that the old ways aren't working at all and guilt, fear and self loathing set in. Until I was pointed towards Dr.Moreley's programme. My life was transformed, this Way of Eating was doable for me and the results below show it. I still have a long way to go to target weight, but I am now back on the lists for surgery having just had my second , pre-surgery MRI.
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This mornings cooler weather seems to have proven that water retention was my enemy the last week or two (a pound up and plateau'd the last 2 weeks) as I had a mini goal busting 3lb weight loss today. Taking my total loss so far to 30lb.
The mini goals were firstly a weight I struggled to get down to 5 years prior for a family wedding, and subsequently the last weight I can actually remember as being a low weight (for me of course). Second mini goal was to finally get under 18 stone, even if its only by a pound, I am now 17st 13lbs.
So that is Mini Goal 5 and 6 smashed in one go.
If it hadn't been for this forum I would have given up so many times before this, discouraged by the seemingly slow or even stopped weight loss, but 30lb is the weight my son was at age 3 and he was a lump to pick up then.
I will have a look around to find something that weighs the same as the weight I have lost and try to post pictures.
Don't give up hope, this 'Way of Eating' isn't startling, it isn't sudden, it SEEMS to have setbacks, but you can keep to this and keep rolling, until one day you realise that clothes are falling off, people are complimenting you and you can't physically lift the weight you have lost.
Within 2 weeks you realise that the old ways aren't working at all and guilt, fear and self loathing set in. Until I was pointed towards Dr.Moreley's programme. My life was transformed, this Way of Eating was doable for me and the results below show it. I still have a long way to go to target weight, but I am now back on the lists for surgery having just had my second , pre-surgery MRI.
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This mornings cooler weather seems to have proven that water retention was my enemy the last week or two (a pound up and plateau'd the last 2 weeks) as I had a mini goal busting 3lb weight loss today. Taking my total loss so far to 30lb.
The mini goals were firstly a weight I struggled to get down to 5 years prior for a family wedding, and subsequently the last weight I can actually remember as being a low weight (for me of course). Second mini goal was to finally get under 18 stone, even if its only by a pound, I am now 17st 13lbs.
So that is Mini Goal 5 and 6 smashed in one go.
If it hadn't been for this forum I would have given up so many times before this, discouraged by the seemingly slow or even stopped weight loss, but 30lb is the weight my son was at age 3 and he was a lump to pick up then.
I will have a look around to find something that weighs the same as the weight I have lost and try to post pictures.
Don't give up hope, this 'Way of Eating' isn't startling, it isn't sudden, it SEEMS to have setbacks, but you can keep to this and keep rolling, until one day you realise that clothes are falling off, people are complimenting you and you can't physically lift the weight you have lost.
